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PadfootAndTheWolf · 07-13-2012, 01:52 AM

SPOILER!!: All you innocent children in the forest

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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa listened as the Professor told them that they would be doing some kind of divination using something they could take out of the forest. Then she recalled the Professor comment about Kurumi's answer and how she was close to guessing what they would be studying. Kurumi had mentioned something tree branches.

Alyssa decided to hazard a guess. She raised her hand and answered

"Professor could the form of Divination you are talking about using that Ogden Staffy thingy have anything to do with taking twigs or sticks and using them to use a reading?"

Then she remembered about the Ancient Runes carvings that she had made last term. "Could each stick be used to represent a symbol or something that is then used for divination reading?"

"That is the jist of it yes, and symbols will be used to represent each stick." Pretty standard actually but good guess for such a remote subject. Callie nodded at the Hufflepuff before moving on.

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Vickers straightened up unconsciously when the Professor called out to the Curly!Puff. His eyes darted quickly to Elijah and gave him another LOOK-- yes please dont upset ~~his crush~~ their Professor more than she already appears? Although really her comments about the Centaurs got him a bit surprised.

Right there was another question...

Ogham Staves... that does sound familiar but why?...

Oh! Up goes the hand "Its Divination using certain types of sticks-- I mean wood Professor... something like a combination of Runes casting and wandlore where the type of wood represents something." He wasnt saure if he got that right, but it stuck out for him when he was doing some reading for Runes classes.

"Precisely Mr. Vanderbilt! Good job!" Callie smiled brightly at the Ravenclaw sitting in the back with the troublesome Puff boy. He should be at the front of the class giving answers like that.

Good show!

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Jory listened to everything that was said by the Professor with interest. He raised a hand to answer the question.

"It's where sticks are used for reading,'' he said and remembered the Stones they'd used in the last class. "The sticks I think, have a letter assigned to them.'' He wasn't sure if it were letters or something else.

"Yes, that's on the right track. Good." Professor Elwood nodded to the Hufflepuff and moved onto the next kid, still twirling her stick in between her fingers.

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Originally Posted by Princesspower

"Is it not a Celtic thing, where bark of trees is used for Divination" put in Sarah.

"It is Celtic, good answer. Although some forms may use the bark of the trees we are going to be using sticks of their wood today." The Gryffindor was definately thinking right.

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Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Wait...they were actually going into the forrest?

At this Nessie blinked, she wasn't too sure she was ready for this, but she didn't have time to prepare herself. She could do this, she urged herself on. Then she went to stand closer to the front, yet still in the middle. She wasn't one the older students there, but neither was she one of the younger ones. She was exactly in between, and so she felt it would be best to stand in the middle then, for protection and all of course.

Following the class, Nessie continued to move her feet forward as they walked deeper into the forrest. This wasn't so bad after all, it was just like walking anywhere. The trick was keeping your mind off any thoughts that involved the dangerous creatures that lived in these surroundings, that would have been easy if it hadn't been for that student mentioning Acumantulas.

When they had entered a small clearing, Ness stood still and had over heard someone mentioning the gigantic spider.

They wouldn't be seeing one of those right...nor thestrals either? Gahh! Those thoughts had her really scared, and it was very difficult for her to concentrate now.

Focus! She told herself, and then listened to the Professor's next question.

Renesmee raised her hand, she wasn't too sure about what this Professor was talking about, but she decided to give a guess, just so she could seem clever and all you know. "Isn't it something to do with trees?" she asked as she looked around and noticed all the greenery.

Hmmm...something to do with trees?

"Yes dear, there will be heavy tree usage today." She giggled slightly and then moved on.

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Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

Nodding automatically as Professor Elwood spoke, her eyes widened when a stick was pulled. She recognised the stuff right away for her neighbor used to be obsessed with this kind of Divination.

The first year straightened and raised her hand ,"With Ogham Staves, wooden sticks are used and they are not random sticks," She said,"I believe they have specific carvings on them," She tried to see if the one held by the Professor had any. "It's an ancient method as far as I know." She finished settling back on her spot and listening to what other students said.

"Yes, very good." The girl, despite her age, was pretty knowledgable of the subject it seemed telling both the basic definition of the subject, apart from the group of people who used it but that would be discussed in a minute.

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Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida raised an eyebrow was Professor Elwood honestly scared of a bug, it was a big bug but since she was a Professor it would be no problem for her right? Enjoy cloud shapes? Who would want to stare at clouds, sure it would be a major waste of a lesson but then again divination... She looked around at all the tress as the Professor did a waving motion to the trees around them. Oh the Ogham Staves sounded familliar. As she searched her brain for the answer she also listened for her other classmates. Hmm odd Kurumi hadn't answered she must not like Divination as well... Raising her hand she answered "Um are the Ogham Staves runes or divination runes? If there was such thing as that... Like each of the trees wood represent something in divination? Maybe the spirtual meaning or something like that... She had put some thought into the answer because this Ravenclaw did not answer questions with stupid answers unless she had no clue what the answer was.

"Very good on both accounts. The Staves do act sort of as a Divinational Rune which will be represented by different types of wood acquired by the caster." The Ravenclaw was on it, certainly making Rowena Ravenclaw proud.

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Originally Posted by hermygirl

SPOILER!!: Scaredy Professor

Spike nodded. "Yep, awesome giant spiders," he said with a innocent grin and bounce of his curls, made oblivious to the woman's discomfort by his own exuberance. "There was meant to be a whole colony in the forest at one point." If there was one thing Spike knew about, it was critters. Especially ones of the giant eight-legged variety. He looked around the clearing almost longingly. What was the point of being in the forest if you never got to see any of the awesome creatures? They could have looked at branches of trees just on the grounds.

Cue pout and arms folded across his chest. Divination had gone down another notch in Spike Hutchinson's eyes.

And no, the wink didn't get him on side.

He looked at the stick, almost in disgust. "Bits of dead wood?" he suggested. Honestly, he was clueless. "Age rings?" He was going to suggest 'randomly shaped twigs' but thought that might be going a little too far, seeing as he was a Prefect.

...it was probably true though.[/QUOTE]
O____O

This boy seriously needed to stop. A whole colony?

Callie looked at him as he continued on excitedly about the spiders but then raised a hand to quiet him. "Prefect Hutchinson, please cease the talk of Acromantulas, you're...frightening the first years." Callie looked around. Yeah, there was probably one afraid somewhere not to mention herself.

And then his answers. "Not quite but good."

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Originally Posted by Cassandra

Taylor looked at the professor as she talked. She smiled and listen closely to her. Tay always loved divination despite hating the future. Taylor raised her hand, "Professor isnt Ogham Staves, sticks that are carved with celtic symbols?" She thought she heard of them before and so she guessed though she wasnt too sure since Taylor really didnt pay attention when her nanny or dad had talked about her heritage...

"They are. The Celtic people were the first to use Ogham Staves." Professor Elwood nodded as she answered the girl's question.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Laura looked at the Professor "Well maybe he was a golf player." Laura wasn't sure what that had to do with the stick in the Professor had but Ogham Staves sounded sort of like a weird sports person name. "Maybe they use those woods things you have in your hand to make a tee that is so good that it can hit the ball where it wants to be hit." But well Laura thought that would be cheating using divination is sports like this.

O__o

Ummm....golf?

"I'm sorry dear but golf is not in the slightest what we are doing today. Good imagination though." That was strange but the girl was young. heh.

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ogham Staves-what? Ella had no idea what the heck this meant. It didn't even sound like a real thing. Hmm. Professor Elwood wouldn't go around just making things up for giggles would she? Just to see what the kids would say? ...No...she totally wouldn't.

Considering the Professor was holding a stick, Ella decided to take a wild guess. It was better than nothing. "Erm...do we like...drop sticks in a pile and see what shapes they take?" Seemed legit.

"There is probably a type of reading done that way," and it seemed pretty similar to their Lithomancy lesson, "but we won't be doing it that way in today's lesson. Good suggestion though." Callie nodded with a smile in the Puff's direction.

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Wisteria watched the professor closely as she went on with her lesson. She didn't want to miss anything so instead of remaining in the back she started making herself to the front. Hmm, Ogham Staves? Witsy came across these vaguely in the library. "Professor, I read a little somewhere that there are 20 sticks present with symbols on each. That's really all I know. Will we be making them?"

"There are twenty differnt sticks. And yes they all do have symbols carved on them." Callie was happy to see that a few of them had at least a small knowledge of the subject they would be covering today.

"Okay guys, attention over here please." Callie had noticed a few of the students' glances had begun to sway to the line of trees around their clearing due to some more noises but nothing sounded bad, so they would press on.

Right, Ogham Staves. "Like a few of you all said, Ogham Staves are used in a form of Divination performed by the ancient Celtic diviners in which sticks and bits of wood are taken from the different types and breeds of trees that have been documented as important by the Celtic religions." She raised her stick and placed a finger at the end. "This, is where the Celtic Alphabet symbol is carved on the stick that is ideally taken from the corrisonding tree. That is, that the symbol and tree match correctly on each stick." If it was hard to understand now she promised it would make sense soon enough.

"Firstly lets try and remember or guess which types of trees would be used in this Ogham reading. Remember what Mister Vanderbilt said, Wandlore also uses the same type of trees for wood that would be in some of your all's wands. Use that to help you." The Professor readjusted her skirt and waited for answers.

"Just one type of wood per person please." She didn't want one person to hog all of them.

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PadfootAndTheWolf formerly: DanialRadFAN01 Bicorn Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: On SS of course! Posts: 16,990 Hogwarts RPG Name: Kiera Burton x6	Gaga Mafia Monster : MURPHY : Kelvin's SS!BFAM : Roro's Evil Twin : Ravlyndor : Gopher SPOILER!!: All you innocent children in the forest Quote: Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 Alyssa listened as the Professor told them that they would be doing some kind of divination using something they could take out of the forest. Then she recalled the Professor comment about Kurumi's answer and how she was close to guessing what they would be studying. Kurumi had mentioned something tree branches. Alyssa decided to hazard a guess. She raised her hand and answered "Professor could the form of Divination you are talking about using that Ogden Staffy thingy have anything to do with taking twigs or sticks and using them to use a reading?" Then she remembered about the Ancient Runes carvings that she had made last term. "Could each stick be used to represent a symbol or something that is then used for divination reading?" "That is the jist of it yes, and symbols will be used to represent each stick." Pretty standard actually but good guess for such a remote subject. Callie nodded at the Hufflepuff before moving on. Quote: Originally Posted by Steelsheen Vickers straightened up unconsciously when the Professor called out to the Curly!Puff. His eyes darted quickly to Elijah and gave him another LOOK-- yes please dont upset ~~his crush~~ their Professor more than she already appears? Although really her comments about the Centaurs got him a bit surprised. Right there was another question... Ogham Staves... that does sound familiar but why?... Oh! Up goes the hand *"Its Divination using certain types of sticks-- I mean wood* Professor... something like a combination of Runes casting and wandlore where the type of wood represents something." He wasnt saure if he got that right, but it stuck out for him when he was doing some reading for Runes classes. "Precisely Mr. Vanderbilt! Good job!" Callie smiled brightly at the Ravenclaw sitting in the back with the troublesome Puff boy. He should be at the front of the class giving answers like that. Good show! Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Jory listened to everything that was said by the Professor with interest. He raised a hand to answer the question. "It's where sticks are used for reading,'' he said and remembered the Stones they'd used in the last class. "The sticks I think, have a letter assigned to them.'' He wasn't sure if it were letters or something else. "Yes, that's on the right track. Good." Professor Elwood nodded to the Hufflepuff and moved onto the next kid, still twirling her stick in between her fingers. Quote: Originally Posted by Princesspower "Is it not a Celtic thing, where bark of trees is used for Divination" put in Sarah. "It is Celtic, good answer. Although some forms may use the bark of the trees we are going to be using sticks of their wood today." The Gryffindor was definately thinking right. Quote: Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh** Wait...they were actually going into the forrest? At this Nessie blinked, she wasn't too sure she was ready for this, but she didn't have time to prepare herself. She could do this, she urged herself on. Then she went to stand closer to the front, yet still in the middle. She wasn't one the older students there, but neither was she one of the younger ones. She was exactly in between, and so she felt it would be best to stand in the middle then, for protection and all of course. Following the class, Nessie continued to move her feet forward as they walked deeper into the forrest. This wasn't so bad after all, it was just like walking anywhere. The trick was keeping your mind off any thoughts that involved the dangerous creatures that lived in these surroundings, that would have been easy if it hadn't been for that student mentioning Acumantulas. When they had entered a small clearing, Ness stood still and had over heard someone mentioning the gigantic spider. They wouldn't be seeing one of those right...nor thestrals either? Gahh! Those thoughts had her really scared, and it was very difficult for her to concentrate now. Focus! She told herself, and then listened to the Professor's next question. Renesmee raised her hand, she wasn't too sure about what this Professor was talking about, but she decided to give a guess, just so she could seem clever and all you know. "Isn't it something to do with trees?" she asked as she looked around and noticed all the greenery. Hmmm...something to do with trees? "Yes dear, there will be heavy tree usage today." She giggled slightly and then moved on. Quote: Originally Posted by the fastest seeker Nodding automatically as Professor Elwood spoke, her eyes widened when a stick was pulled. She recognised the stuff right away for her neighbor used to be obsessed with this kind of Divination. The first year straightened and raised her hand ,"With Ogham Staves, wooden sticks are used and they are not random sticks," She said,"I believe they have specific carvings on them," She tried to see if the one held by the Professor had any. "It's an ancient method as far as I know." She finished settling back on her spot and listening to what other students said. "Yes, very good." The girl, despite her age, was pretty knowledgable of the subject it seemed telling both the basic definition of the subject, apart from the group of people who used it but that would be discussed in a minute. Quote: Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight Nerida raised an eyebrow was Professor Elwood honestly scared of a bug, it was a big bug but since she was a Professor it would be no problem for her right? Enjoy cloud shapes? Who would want to stare at clouds, sure it would be a major waste of a lesson but then again divination... She looked around at all the tress as the Professor did a waving motion to the trees around them. Oh the Ogham Staves sounded familliar. As she searched her brain for the answer she also listened for her other classmates. Hmm odd Kurumi hadn't answered she must not like Divination as well... Raising her hand she answered "Um are the Ogham Staves runes or divination runes? If there was such thing as that... Like each of the trees wood represent something in divination? Maybe the spirtual meaning or something like that... She had put some thought into the answer because this Ravenclaw did not answer questions with stupid answers unless she had no clue what the answer was. "Very good on both accounts. The Staves do act sort of as a Divinational Rune which will be represented by different types of wood acquired by the caster." The Ravenclaw was on it, certainly making Rowena Ravenclaw proud. Quote: Originally Posted by hermygirl SPOILER!!: Scaredy Professor QUOTE=DanialRadFAN01;11124081]"A-acromatulas?" Callie stammed slightly as the Ravenclaw mentioned the name of by far the most HIDEOUSLY-HORRIBLE beasts in the entire Wizarding World. She could care less about Thestrals, but there were bloody giant spiders in this forest? Why hadn't Willy or Waylon mentioned that tiny tidbit?! She would be having a word with them about that. Back to curious child and probably the other students who's attention was probably prickled by the mention of creatures like that. Yeah. "No, we will hopefully not encounter any of those in today's lesson but please if you think you see one of those..." she paused and shut her eyes for a moment to avoid shivering. "inform me immediately and we will get out of here. Got it." She gave him and then the rest a nod that sent her blonde hair tubling back over her shoulders and then she winked at him to try and cover up her fear. Yeah she was good now. ----------------- No one had guessed correctly but some were close--that counted for something right. Obviously this wasn't a failure on her part but merely showed that their previous Professors in the subject hadn't explored many out-of-the-box sectors of the subject. Oh well. "Since we won't be able to look at and enjoy the cloud shapes like some of you did before we entered the forest I think we could do what I had planned for today which, like some of you have sort of touched on, involves something we can take from the forest." She lifted a hand and made a sweeping motion around at the trees making the perimeter of their lovely little clearing. Professor Elwood pulled from behind her a stick no longer than a wand and about the same girth, the one she had purposefully sat near in order to answer this question the way she wanted. "Today we are going to study Divination by Ogham Staves. Would anyone like to venture a guess as to what those could be?" She twirled the stick in her fingers, waiting for an answer. Anyone? Spike nodded. "Yep, awesome giant spiders," he said with a innocent grin and bounce of his curls, made oblivious to the woman's discomfort by his own exuberance. "There was meant to be a whole colony in the forest at one point." If there was one thing Spike knew about, it was critters. Especially ones of the giant eight-legged variety. He looked around the clearing almost longingly. What was the point of being in the forest if you never got to see any of the awesome creatures? They could have looked at branches of trees just on the grounds. Cue pout and arms folded across his chest. Divination had gone down another notch in Spike Hutchinson's eyes. And no, the wink didn't get him on side. He looked at the stick, almost in disgust. "Bits of dead wood?" he suggested. Honestly, he was clueless. "Age rings?" He was going to suggest 'randomly shaped twigs' but thought that might be going a little too far, seeing as he was a Prefect. ...it was probably true though.[/QUOTE] O____O This boy seriously needed to stop. A whole colony? Callie looked at him as he continued on excitedly about the spiders but then raised a hand to quiet him. "Prefect Hutchinson, please cease the talk of Acromantulas, you're...frightening the first years." Callie looked around. Yeah, there was probably one afraid somewhere not to mention herself. And then his answers. "Not quite but good." Quote: Originally Posted by Cassandra Taylor looked at the professor as she talked. She smiled and listen closely to her. Tay always loved divination despite hating the future. Taylor raised her hand, "Professor isnt Ogham Staves, sticks that are carved with celtic symbols?" She thought she heard of them before and so she guessed though she wasnt too sure since Taylor really didnt pay attention when her nanny or dad had talked about her heritage... "They are. The Celtic people were the first to use Ogham Staves." Professor Elwood nodded as she answered the girl's question. Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Laura looked at the Professor "Well maybe he was a golf player." Laura wasn't sure what that had to do with the stick in the Professor had but Ogham Staves sounded sort of like a weird sports person name. "Maybe they use those woods things you have in your hand to make a tee that is so good that it can hit the ball where it wants to be hit." But well Laura thought that would be cheating using divination is sports like this. O__o Ummm....golf? "I'm sorry dear but golf is not in the slightest what we are doing today. Good imagination though." That was strange but the girl was young. heh. Quote: Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Ogham Staves-what? Ella had no idea what the heck this meant. It didn't even sound like a real thing. Hmm. Professor Elwood wouldn't go around just making things up for giggles would she? Just to see what the kids would say? ...No...she totally wouldn't. Considering the Professor was holding a stick, Ella decided to take a wild guess. It was better than nothing. "Erm...do we like...drop sticks in a pile and see what shapes they take?" Seemed legit. "There is probably a type of reading done that way," and it seemed pretty similar to their Lithomancy lesson, "but we won't be doing it that way in today's lesson. Good suggestion though." Callie nodded with a smile in the Puff's direction. Quote: Originally Posted by Sherri Wisteria watched the professor closely as she went on with her lesson. She didn't want to miss anything so instead of remaining in the back she started making herself to the front. Hmm, Ogham Staves? Witsy came across these vaguely in the library. "Professor, I read a little somewhere that there are 20 sticks present with symbols on each. That's really all I know. Will we be making them?" "There are twenty differnt sticks. And yes they all do have symbols carved on them." Callie was happy to see that a few of them had at least a small knowledge of the subject they would be covering today. "Okay guys, attention over here please." Callie had noticed a few of the students' glances had begun to sway to the line of trees around their clearing due to some more noises but nothing sounded bad, so they would press on. Right, Ogham Staves. "Like a few of you all said, Ogham Staves are used in a form of Divination performed by the ancient Celtic diviners in which sticks and bits of wood are taken from the different types and breeds of trees that have been documented as important by the Celtic religions." She raised her stick and placed a finger at the end. "This, is where the Celtic Alphabet symbol is carved on the stick that is ideally taken from the corrisonding tree. That is, that the symbol and tree match correctly on each stick." If it was hard to understand now she promised it would make sense soon enough. "Firstly lets try and remember or guess which types of trees would be used in this Ogham reading. Remember what Mister Vanderbilt said, Wandlore also uses the same type of trees for wood that would be in some of your all's wands. Use that to help you." The Professor readjusted her skirt and waited for answers. "Just one type of wood per person please." She didn't want one person to hog all of them.