Professor Pretty was looking particularly... well... pretty today, and Mo gave her a broad grin as he entered the classroom and chose a spot near the front. Always near the front in this class, if he could help it. And nowhere near Kaiden, who liked to play footsie during this class.

"Hullo, Professor. Hope you had a nice holiday." Grin grin grin grin.

It was time for Divination and Minerva was beyond excited. She loved divination.. LOVE IT!! Skipping steps as she went up to the tower and tripping on a few She jumped through the door, because she decided it would be more fun then walking and she was doing anything that was fun these days. Seeing professor Elwood she smiled "Hi Professor.. hi professor.. She sang more than talked. Eyeing the material near her desk Minerva's smile grew. "Arts and crafts today Professor.. That looks like an awesome lesson, but all lessons are awesome aren't they.." She was talking quickly and bouncing with excitement.

Turning towards her usually seat which was in the front of course She saw Ethan and was just about to go and sit next to him when she was distracted and distracted for good reason. There was ice cream in the room. "Can you use ice cream to tell the future or the past.. because it wouldn't surprise me, ice cream is just amazing in all sorts away.. so of course it is awesome enough to tell someones future as well.. Are we going to eat the ice cream, we aren't going to let it melt I hope." She finally took her seat next to Ethan and crossed her legs, still bouncing her one foot like she had to be moving at least part of her at all times.

Maaaan, couldn't they provide REAL food and not ice cream every time? West made a face and sat down. Not too near the front. Actually he was very specific with his seating choice, making sure he had a good view of the seat next to Scan, the row behind but y'know, a few seats over. Perfect viewing angle.

Laura walked into the classroom. "Hello Professor." She gave the Professor a big smile. "You know what would be nice today Professor?" Laura smiled. "Ice-cream, everyone should have ice-cream Professor apparently it is a proven fact that Ice-cream helps to focus the brain."

The second year old ran as fast as she could to her next class, she had totally forgotten the time when she had been talking to another student she had met in the castle and now she was afraid that she would be too late for her second Divination lesson! Heavily panting she ran into the classroom and saw that she was still on-time. The lesson hasn’t started yet so she could relax some more! “Hello professor” smiled Sonea and looked a little suspicious at the stuff what was standing in the corner of the classroom. “Oh, Daichi, hi!” Smiled Sonea and sat next to him without asking if it was okay for her to company him.

Elise was in a pretty bad mood to begin with, having woken up late and missed the chance to grab some breakfast before she headed for her first class. Then, she'd read her schedule wrong and gone all the way down to the Potions laboratory before she realized that it was a Thursday and not a Tuesday. Divination, not Potions.

Grumbling under her breath, Elise trudged up all seven flights of stairs and eventually made it to the Divination Tower. Lovely. "G'day Professor Elwood." Not that she was having a particularly nice one but it didn't mean no one else could. Then, she flopped herself into a chair and tried not to sleep. She was sleepy and sleep deprived and should probably have stopped reading before midnight but no, she just had to go on and read chapters of Herbology in advance. Now, she was just exhausted and sleepy.

Yawn.

Sigh. Another lesson yet for the day.

Good thing it was Divination...or Beezus would actually have thought of ditching it. This day had been rather unpleasant for the Ravenclaw. Not only had it been full of stress, homeworks and ragged lectures all the while, her own body wasn't even cooperating. Side effects....she supposed.

She sighed once again but quickly cracked up a smile when she greeted the Professor. "Hello, maa'm." And as she tucked some hair behind her ear, the brunette bounded over to take a seat and waited for class to begin.

HE. WAS. LATE.

This... was not the way to start off. And this was Divination, you know. He actually wanted to come to this lesson and was actually looking forward to it. Sort of. As long as they weren't going to get any more weird tea leaf readings. There had been enough of those in the previous homework assignment.

But despite being sort of late -- or was he? -- the boy still entered the classroom with a wide grin spread across his face. Because there was a lot to be happy about, yeah? Even if this was a class that was a long way away from important things like the Great Hall and ice cream. Especially ice cream. Maybe there should be ice cream stands stationed on each floor...

... Ice cream...

Shaking his head, the sixteen year old grinned over towards the blonde haired Professor. "Hello Professor! It's great to see you!" And... there were weird items next to her. Items to do with the lesson or...? ... Shrug. He turned away and headed over towards an empty seat near the middle of the classroom. He sat down and started pulling out his things from his bag, a smile still playing across his lips. It was going to be a GOOD lesson. Nodnod.

Hop. Hop. Hop.

She wasn't late so there was no real point in rushing to class. Nah, for now she'd hop. It was more fun and you kicked started your brain by doing that. It was like a medical fact or something and if not...well she just made it one and it was doing wonders for her and all this extra energy she had to burn.

She came to a stop when she got to the class and took in everything curiously. So many neat things, would they get to play with them or were they just for show?

Maybe she could ask to keep a few?

"Hello Professor!" BEEEAM. "You look lovely today!" But then, what did she know? She was hardly focusing on any one thing for too long. Her attention was darting around the room, taking in everything and everyone. Ice-cream soon?

Not excited for this class, Aliza strolled into the room. Divination has never exactly been Aliza's favorite class, but she had to take it so she decided to push through as well as she could.
"Good Day Professor" she said with a slight smile, then headed towards an available seat

Aidan always felt cool going to Divination. Not because of the actual subject, but because he was aware of the effort the other houses had to make to get to the tower, while his common room was so close. Of course, it was nothing he'd done personally, but he always walked into class with a smug attitude and smile to go along. Today was no exception.

Only once inside, the smugness was replaced by genuine excitement. "What's THAT?!" he asked, pointing at all the THINGS on the professor's desk. What did they DO? Were they going to use them? Were they going to MAKE something with them?! DID THEY GET TO BREAK STUFF WITH THEM?!!

He wasn't sitting until he got ANSWERS.

A great turnout today, it seemed like she didn't have anyone missing which was good. Callie smiled and nodded at each student as they greeted her and even the ones after Mr. Stark who innocently told her she 'looked lovely today'. They certainly knew how to boost a woman's self-esteem.

The Divination Professor was also excited to see the looks of curiosity and bewilderment the students were giving the items sitting on the desktop beside her and it made her only that more ready to begin.

SPOILER!!: Ice Cream Fangirls/Fanboys

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Daichi had literally taken two stairs at a time to climb up with a huge smile on his face and as he entered the divination classroom his grin widened. Over his shoulder was his school bag and in his hands was a bucket of ice cream he had stolen from the kitchen....

"HAAAI PROFESSOR~ i bought you some ice cream!" Cause he felt bad that her classroom was waaaay up top of the school and the kitchen was waaaay down. And ice cream should be shared and everyone should eat it and be happy~

Now give him some points...He needed them...BEAM!

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Uuuuh, ice cream? As in, Daichi bring it to class? A Slytherin prefect bring ice cream to a professor? Okay, now things were getting really weird around here. First the goblins, now this? Sky was actually debating warning Professor Elwood away from the stuff. But, how to do it in such a way that she wouldn't get offended but wouldn't cause a panic.......

Oh forget about causing a panic. "Professor Elwood, I wouldn't eat that. Everyone who has has become extremely....... obsessed with it. Like, all they can talk about is ice cream....." Weird, crazy, worrying.

And, what was all that stuff on her desk about?

One of the first few people to enter the class though didn't just have a causal greeting. The Slytherin Prefect apparently decided to cater the day's lesson. She looked at him and then to the Syltherin girl warning her against eating it. Callie had no intention of eating the stuff, besides she had eaten a lot lately and would rather not ingest the extra calories.

"Thank you Prefect Katheros and Miss Carter-Hope. I wouldn't care for any ice cream," Airey and Medea were loopy enough as it was for her taste. "but I won't take the stuff away from the rest of the class since you brought it."

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Aidan always felt cool going to Divination. Not because of the actual subject, but because he was aware of the effort the other houses had to make to get to the tower, while his common room was so close. Of course, it was nothing he'd done personally, but he always walked into class with a smug attitude and smile to go along. Today was no exception.

Only once inside, the smugness was replaced by genuine excitement. "What's THAT?!" he asked, pointing at all the THINGS on the professor's desk. What did they DO? Were they going to use them? Were they going to MAKE something with them?! DID THEY GET TO BREAK STUFF WITH THEM?!!

He wasn't sitting until he got ANSWERS.

The last person to enter the classroom was the little Ravenclaw Stone boy. Callie flicked her wand, closing the trapdoor behind him and turned as he greeted her...sort of.

She laughed lightly looking at the stuff and simply said. "Ink, glass slabs, and rubber Mr. Stone. You'll see soon enough what we will use them for."

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"Okay everyone, if I can have your attention up here we will begin the day's lesson." She stood from her chair and walked around to the front of her desk, arms raised for attention. Good.

Placing her wand on the table beside the activity items the blonde spoke again. "Think back to our final lesson last term where we learned about Tarot Cards; and for those of you knew to Hogwarts this term, perhaps you've read that chapter in your textbooks?" They definitely should have. EYES. "Does anyone remember how the classical elements related to the suits of the Minor Arcana?"

Ella thought back to last term and tapped her chin thoughtfully. What was it about the Minor Arcana and the elements that they had learned? Oh! The suites each represented one of the elements, yeah? She thought that was it. Now if she could only think of an example. Hmmm.

"Professor? I believe each of the Minor Arcana cards is linked to an element so, for example, the cups represent the element of water."

La la laa. Doodling on the edge of our parchment. Little random doodles. Distracting our self form the lesson. Oh wait. The Professor had asked a question. Clement had to think about this answer. Last term was a long time ago, and his memory was not all that good. Too many bludgers to the head clearly. But he did eventually think about it. Working out his answer in his head, he raised his hands. "The cards of the minor arcana are split into 4 suits...which in turn relate to the 4 elements. So for example the element of air corresponds to Swords."

DAICHI HAD ICE-CREAM!!!! Could she have some??? PLEEEEEASE??? She would probably have to ask him...or maybe she could casually sneak over and have some? She had her own spoon. Always carried one around now for ice-cream reasons like this one.

Okay, focus Lex. Answer the question first. Ask about the ice-cream second. They were discussing Tarot Cards--oh hey, she remembered those!! She got to create her own! She remembered the story she made too! Good 'ole ant.

She stuck her hand in the air, waving around like she normally did and she didn't fall off her seat either. Impressive, huh?

"I remember! Each suit is associated with another element oh and they match to muggle suits too" She had to mention the last bit because it was something she'd read and well, everyone knew Lex didn't do that very often so it was being put out there. "But anyway, the elements. The wand matches to the element of fire, the coin goes with earth, cups go with water and the sword goes with the air element."

Attention? Okay!

Tarot Cards! Those were AWESOME, they were! He was secretly hoping that they'd come up in the OWLs and they were asked to interpret them. Alec grinned a little and sat up a little straighter. Now... what had they learnt about the Minor Arcana and how was it related to the classical elements?

... OH! "Erm... Professor!" Hand!raise. "See, the Minor Arcana are split up into four suits and there are four elements and each of the suits match up with each of the elements, in a way," He was sure that that was right... "For example... Fire corresponds with Wands because... the Wands cards represent creativity and awakening and that's all the things that Fire represents too! And they're both considered to be magical..." Or... something.

The Slytherin sat in her seat calmly her eyes fixed on the items near the professor. Nope, she hadn't figured out what they might be for. Or what how would they be used in Divination, anyway. Though that didn't worry her, she wasn't that good at guessing anyway. So it'd be better if she waited. Also, Aidan-Lex's friend- already asked and didn't get an answer

And lesson started. It means they were closer to know.

Cassia took a couple of minutes to process the answer then she raised her hand and answered. "The minor Arcana contains 56 cards and they are divided to four suits, and each suit represents an element," That was just a recap,"The suits of Cups is related to Water," She knew that one by heart. Because cups..water, duh! "And suits of Swords is related to air," Aaaand she didn't really remember the others. So hopefully those would do.

Asher had no idea what the Professor was talking about. How could he be expected to know something from last term? And read the book BEFORE class. That wasn't going to happen either. He did enjoy Divination, but not enough to give up playing outside or, for heavens sake, sleep.

Not wanting to sound like a complete fool, he decided to chime in after a few of the other students responded, "that sounds right to me. Cups and water, wands and fire."

Errr... good question. Minor Arcana rung a tiny bell in his head, but he couldn't remember much information about it other than it was to do with cards. Theo got out his quill, ready to write down any details that the other students said, but first, he raised his hand to say what he knew. "There are four suits," Yes, definitely four, hmmm... "And each represents something." Merlin knew what.

Beautiful Professor Lady say what? Yeah, see this face didn't DO words like that. He honestly had no idea what she was talking about, but figured that was cool. Ahem, look at him. He knew that she certainly was. Wink.

It was okay. He understood. She wouldn't have been the first older woman to appreciate his face. It was a nice face, yeah? Smirk.

So, with that in mind he kept his smirk almost glowing and leaned back in his seat to wait and watch for her to move onto stuff in the lesson. Hopefully stuff he wasn't completely clueless about. Not that he was EVER clueless ever. Exceptional charming and on top of his stuff? Always.

Wasn't it rude to refuse a gift? His mother and father always told him that when you get something you either accept it and thank them and sometimes give something back as well. But when none of these things happened the Prefect wibbled his lower lip a little. "Oh..alright professor" WIBBLE!

"Professor?! Since you don't want the AMAZING FANTASTIC ice cream? Can i SHARE it with the class?" Cause sharing was happiness~! "I don't know how to conjure bowls though..." hmmm...

He sat down on one of the chairs and raised his hand in the air when the first question came up. "Wands have the element of f-f-fire" he stuttered the word fire, shivered and then continued. "Cups have the element of water . Sword air and...."

.....what was that last one again?

The Slytherin thought and thought. It was on the tip of his tongue! Fire, water, air oh! "I only remember the element earth.."

It would be really cool if an Avatar was in the room now huh?!

Well the word Minor Arcana was alright. Not to sure about the cards unless the pictures were also awesome. But Nigel was postitive the Major Arcana was better. Nigel knew less about the Minor than Major.

"So what about The Major Arcana."

Nigel just felt like leaving a vague question because he knew nothing about the minor one.Please you only pay attention to the Big Leagues. The Majors is so much better than the Minors.

Tarot cards... huh. Nope. Derry had absolutely no idea about anything to do with that stuff. She knew there'd been that girl in her class back in muggle school who used to carry them round, but that was about it. She'd only managed to glance across the chapter in her book - she thought Divination was a bit wishy wash to be honest - and she'd been busy with her transfiguration research.

So instead of embarrassing herself, she just stayed quiet and took notes as other people said things...

Hmm...

Arcana was a good word.

Arcaaaaana.

Tarot Reading. Now that was one of the most fun topics in Divination. Plus they had gotten that awesome home work with creating their own card. Jory wondered why they were going over this stuff again but he raised his hand anyway. "The elements all represented one of the four suits. For example, the suit Swords represent Air.''

Did West remember? He thought about it for a second, put his hand up, and kept his answer simple.

".... yes."

Yes he did remember. Because that was what she'd asked.