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Maxilocks · 01-02-2011, 04:24 PM

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She couldn't be... Jared felt it, almost like a smooth, hassle-free obstruction, if such a thing exists. He almost smiled in his mind, and then decided it to be no big deal. The part of him that he'd always hidden, the secrets he shouldn't reveal - and hadn't revealed - they had been taken away and replaced by false memories, long ago.

"I can't seem to help it." He grinned at his statement. He'd been away from France a long time, and he still could not leave his lingering fondness for it behind. Surprisingly, that pleased him. Still pleased him. Oh, and she had been to France. "It's a beautiful place... and once again, I sound as biased about it as I am."

Change that? "If things come to that, I have a feeling one of us is going to give up out of sheer frustration in the end." To put it in Joe's everyday less-than-polished language: he sucked at Divination. Spectacularly. "My Inner Eye must be pretty down to have ended up in me." Of course, it might - like she had said - not be a case of Inner Eyes after all. "Seers do have a special kind of power. Reckon it's just a terribly strong sixth sense?"

Text Cut: Cookie kid and Professors CoMC & Arithmaaaancy

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi found her hands shaking as she approached the staff table carrying a rather large box of her Hogwarts house cookies. Having finished distributing the proper cookies to each house - and making sure that her charm on the Gryffindor ones was still intact to keep the parade in the air going - she knew that she had to give a box to the professors as well. However, her mind became uneasy and she found her jaw dropping a bit as several of the professors she had come to love were missing. She knew Professor Ruffles was leaving, he had made that announcement during their final...but where was Professor Markovic and her Head of House Professor Carlton? She had finally gotten to talk with Professor Markovic at the end of the term and had been thinking about questions to ask regarding curse breaking because it sounded like a fascinating profession. Then there was Professor Carlton, who didn't want to spend time with her. Kurumi glanced around the table with a small glimpse of hope that then quickly faded. Nope, Dragon Lady was still around. Then there were some unfamiliar faces, new professors and one person in particular that looked, well, suspicious and a little scary.

Realizing that she had probably been standing there in front of the table for a good amount of time with her mouth semi-opened and shaking like jello from nerves, Kurumi found herself bowing at a perfect 90 degrees with the gold box wrapped in a white ribbon in her outstretched hands. Now she had to try and translate what she wanted to say in her head into words without making too much of a fool of herself.

"I'll do my best this term as a second, so please give me good teaching," she said rather quickly. Did that make sense? Was it a little ambiguous? It was probably better than the I humbly ask you to be kind to me sentence she had originally thought of. Sometimes, trying to keep up her Japanese traditions made her look silly. At least her mother would be proud. "Please accept these cookies as sign of my appreciation for everything I was given last year and for things to come."

There, that sounded much nicer. Kurumi looked up and opened the box before setting it on the table. Inside the box, the cookies were aligned in four different rows of cookies: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.

She then decided it would be best to take her time and bow to each of them - which took a little while because there were so many of them. Her eyes stopped on one of the new female teachers and Kurumi felt like a giant question mark appeared over her head. Hadn't she seen this woman somewhere before?

"Jake never mentioned that his mother was a teacher," she said aloud tilting her head to the side.

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Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd

A new term.

A new term with hyper children, rolling down hillsides as a mean to arrive to lessons and having abnormally large rabbits as pets.

What an eventful term this would be, indeed. Maya was sure of it. Because, really, nothing was ever 'normal' in this school. But aslong as she had some tortillas and fruit to ~~pelt at someone annoying~~ eat, she would be fine.

The Mexicana strode across the room and ascended the dias, noticing the people at the table. Oh, well hello. New faces... nice new faces.
With a small smile, she nodded to her colleagues, "Good Day, Professors." passing some of them as she headed for her own seat.

Getting comfortable, she scanned the Great Hall, eyes slightly narrowed, wondering just who would be the first one to cause trouble this term...and lose points. Hehe.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

Still gazing out at the students, she also couldn't help but notice that her neighbors had not taken their seats yet. Well without Davina there would be a new Runes Professor ... But Risu was returning, right? Ah well, he was probably caught up looking at the stars or whatever he did up in the Astronomy tower. Totally not her subject ... relying on stars, PFFT. The numbers were more her thing.

Oh ... Hello new professor! Josephina said mentally, as some guy gave her a polite nod and then started making small talk with his neighbor. Another new professor. Giving a small smile in both their directions, her hazel eyes focused instead on something just past the pair of new professors ...

The chair to his right, so far vacant, had finally been filled. The appearance of a girl that apparently had cookies for the staff - Jared raised an eyebrow, but made no comment - however, prevented him from giving any immediate attention to the teacher that had sat down to his right. He nodded in response to the cookie kid's bow, before inclining his head in the direction of the Creatures Professor. Maya Saylen, if memory served correctly.

"Professor Saylen," he said lightly, as he registered Professor Hadley's polite smile and returned it.

There. Done. Jared resisted the urge to grin lazily. Having to meet people could be such a hassle. He hardly ever voluntarily introduced himself - doing so was, nine times out of ten, a sign that someone had sufficiently impressed him or caught his interest - but he'd have to sit next to Professor Saylen almost each day of this school term, and that gave him reason enough to at least make the effort to get to know her, even if superficially.

01-02-2011, 04:24 PM	#35 (permalink)
Maxilocks SS Featured Author Türk Bilgini Bugbear Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: {in a leap of faith} Posts: 31,791 Hogwarts RPG Name: Sarani Glass Graduated x12	Kristyyeeen and Clawz. ^__^ ♥ Mrs. Itachi Uchiha™ & MAJNOO! : Bleach & Kyo & Natsume ♥ [ Maxh!Jesh ] Text Cut: gasp Quote: Originally Posted by SilverTiger Renée didn't need her ability to know Jared agreed with her on the mistaken thing. The wry smile said more than even his thoughts would, and besides, it was almost fun trying to learn things about him without using that. Testing her other social skills, which hadn't gotten a lot of use when she'd been among students. So far it seemed Hogwarts was going to be way more interesting than any of her jobs in New York. Which only made her that much happier that she could be there, returning to her old school and everything. Another smile graced her face at the compliment, though. "Well, thank you. Even if you are biased," she said, feeling an odd sense of accomplishemnt as his accompanying smile seemed more genuine than any of the others. "Sadly, no. I've been to France, though. Actually, I'm half English, half American," she replied. She always attributed her name to the fact her mother was an actress. Like she had felt the need to give her daughter an exotic name or something because of it. It was interesting, really. And as he spoke of Divination, a wry grin of her own appeared on her face. "I see. Maybe we'll have to change that," she responded, "Sometimes, honestly, I wonder if it's all a matter of having an Inner Eye, or just practice." She never had seen herself as any sort of a Seer, after all. Just adept at reading the Tarot, for some reason. And thoughts, but that wasn't connected to her subject. "And if it makes you feel any better, I can't say I'd do very well with manticores either." She couldn't be... Jared felt it, almost like a smooth, hassle-free obstruction, if such a thing exists. He almost smiled in his mind, and then decided it to be no big deal. The part of him that he'd always hidden, the secrets he shouldn't reveal - and hadn't revealed - they had been taken away and replaced by false memories, long ago. "I can't seem to help it." He grinned at his statement. He'd been away from France a long time, and he still could not leave his lingering fondness for it behind. Surprisingly, that pleased him. Still pleased him. Oh, and she had been to France. "It's a beautiful place... and once again, I sound as biased about it as I am." Change that? "If things come to that, I have a feeling one of us is going to give up out of sheer frustration in the end." To put it in Joe's everyday less-than-polished language: he sucked at Divination. Spectacularly. "My Inner Eye must be pretty down to have ended up in me." Of course, it might - like she had said - not be a case of Inner Eyes after all. "Seers do have a special kind of power. Reckon it's just a terribly strong sixth sense?" Text Cut: Cookie kid and Professors CoMC & Arithmaaaancy Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi found her hands shaking as she approached the staff table carrying a rather large box of her Hogwarts house cookies. Having finished distributing the proper cookies to each house - and making sure that her charm on the Gryffindor ones was still intact to keep the parade in the air going - she knew that she had to give a box to the professors as well. However, her mind became uneasy and she found her jaw dropping a bit as several of the professors she had come to love were missing. She knew Professor Ruffles was leaving, he had made that announcement during their final...but where was Professor Markovic and her Head of House Professor Carlton? She had finally gotten to talk with Professor Markovic at the end of the term and had been thinking about questions to ask regarding curse breaking because it sounded like a fascinating profession. Then there was Professor Carlton, who didn't want to spend time with her. Kurumi glanced around the table with a small glimpse of hope that then quickly faded. Nope, Dragon Lady was still around. Then there were some unfamiliar faces, new professors and one person in particular that looked, well, suspicious and a little scary. Realizing that she had probably been standing there in front of the table for a good amount of time with her mouth semi-opened and shaking like jello from nerves, Kurumi found herself bowing at a perfect 90 degrees with the gold box wrapped in a white ribbon in her outstretched hands. Now she had to try and translate what she wanted to say in her head into words without making too much of a fool of herself. "I'll do my best this term as a second, so please give me good teaching," she said rather quickly. Did that make sense? Was it a little ambiguous? It was probably better than the I humbly ask you to be kind to me sentence she had originally thought of. Sometimes, trying to keep up her Japanese traditions made her look silly. At least her mother would be proud. "Please accept these cookies as sign of my appreciation for everything I was given last year and for things to come." There, that sounded much nicer. Kurumi looked up and opened the box before setting it on the table. Inside the box, the cookies were aligned in four different rows of cookies: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. She then decided it would be best to take her time and bow to each of them - which took a little while because there were so many of them. Her eyes stopped on one of the new female teachers and Kurumi felt like a giant question mark appeared over her head. Hadn't she seen this woman somewhere before? "Jake never mentioned that his mother was a teacher," she said aloud tilting her head to the side. Quote: Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd A new term. A new term with hyper children, rolling down hillsides as a mean to arrive to lessons and having abnormally large rabbits as pets. What an eventful term this would be, indeed. Maya was sure of it. Because, really, nothing was ever 'normal' in this school. But aslong as she had some tortillas and fruit to ~~pelt at someone annoying~~ eat, she would be fine. The Mexicana strode across the room and ascended the dias, noticing the people at the table. Oh, well hello. New faces... nice new faces. With a small smile, she nodded to her colleagues, "Good Day, Professors." passing some of them as she headed for her own seat. Getting comfortable, she scanned the Great Hall, eyes slightly narrowed, wondering just who would be the first one to cause trouble this term...and lose points. Hehe. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Still gazing out at the students, she also couldn't help but notice that her neighbors had not taken their seats yet. Well without Davina there would be a new Runes Professor ... But Risu was returning, right? Ah well, he was probably caught up looking at the stars or whatever he did up in the Astronomy tower. Totally not her subject ... relying on stars, PFFT. The numbers were more her thing. Oh ... Hello new professor! Josephina said mentally, as some guy gave her a polite nod and then started making small talk with his neighbor. Another new professor. Giving a small smile in both their directions, her hazel eyes focused instead on something just past the pair of new professors ... The chair to his right, so far vacant, had finally been filled. The appearance of a girl that apparently had cookies for the staff - Jared raised an eyebrow, but made no comment - however, prevented him from giving any immediate attention to the teacher that had sat down to his right. He nodded in response to the cookie kid's bow, before inclining his head in the direction of the Creatures Professor. Maya Saylen, if memory served correctly. "Professor Saylen," he said lightly, as he registered Professor Hadley's polite smile and returned it. There. Done. Jared resisted the urge to grin lazily. Having to meet people could be such a hassle. He hardly ever voluntarily introduced himself - doing so was, nine times out of ten, a sign that someone had sufficiently impressed him or caught his interest - but he'd have to sit next to Professor Saylen almost each day of this school term, and that gave him reason enough to at least make the effort to get to know her, even if superficially. Last edited by Maxilocks; 01-02-2011 at 04:49 PM.