 
DMT & DIMCAntipodean Opaleye
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Geekdom of Nerdtopia
Posts: 9,941
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Tenacius "Ace" Salander
Graduated
  x12  x12
|  Ability is nothing without Opportunity | | Creativity is Intelligence having FUN
Text Cut: ROTFL Lee!! Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeness  Dream on man? Exxxcccuseee me? What on Earth was that supposed to mean? Did Vickers seriously think that Elijah didn't stand a chance with Kurumi? Elijah was starting to think that Vickers' glasses must be SERIOUSLY broken if he hadn't taken the time just to have a look at his face and how GORGEOUS it was. No girl turned this down. Nu-uh. But there had been a bit of tension and hostility behind the words as well? Was their something deeper going on here? Elijah had been about to question him on it when the Professor had decided that NOW, during class, was an appropriate time to TEACH. GUH. Oh, but wait... she was... speaking to him?
He flashed her his best smile as back up and said, "Apologies, Professor Elwood, Vickers had just been telling me some interesting facts and I was just telling him... ya know... that PROFESSOR ELWOOD... that's you, right? haha... well, I was saying how she.. you... the Professor... probably knew all that Divinationy stuff. Is. All. Yep."
What. On. Earth.
Either way, the lesson continued onward and Elijah felt as if he had pretty successfully got himself out of that scenario. OooooooOoOo yeahhhhh. SPOILER!!: Vickers and Prof Round 2
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."
"They are. The Celtic people were the first to use Ogham Staves." Professor Elwood nodded as she answered the girl's question.
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.
"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.
"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.[/color]
Elijah could actually physically FEEL the stare Vickers was giving him as a result of the Professor having overheard Elijah scream her name. He responded with a small shrug off his shoulders and a nervous smile as if to say 'hey, it could've gone a whole lot worse'.
He had intended to ask him about his previous hostility in response to him winning over Kurumi when the Professor decided to ask ANOTHER question. Man, did she everrrr stop talking? Was she NEVER tired of teaching? Time and place, Elwood. Time and place.
He listened on as his fellow students gave their answers, including Vickers, to which Professor Elwood gave him wonderous praise. He grinned, unable to control himself. "Yesssss, verrrryyy good job Mr. Vanderbilt," he whispered so only Vickers could hear and even began fluttering his eyelashes for good measure.
A small smile tugged at the corner of his lips. He got it right! Better yet Professor Hotstuff Elwood was happy he got it right. As she moved to the rest of the student's answers his line of vision cleared to show Kurumi just across the way, smiling at him. He tried to muster a return smile, but he could feel his face heating up and shyly shifted his eyes away. Just in time too, there was another question....
Up goes the hand again "Professor, there's also Hazel wood." he remembered that one pretty distinctly, as it was the kind of wood he worked on in their Runes class from last term[/QUOTE]
"Oh hazel wood?" Elijah repeated, "Wooooooow, Vickers. What a GREAT answer! Wouldn't you agree, Professor Elwood? Vickers' brain is just one of his finest assets."
Snicker. Giggle. GUFFAW.
When did Elijah get so gawsh, darned funny?
The Professor sent them off to do some wood collecting and Vickers had mentioned something about collecting some types or something. YAWN. "I'll help you out, Vee," Elijah insisted, following after the 'Claw. He wanted to get down to the previous hostility as well. "Hey, ya know back at the start before Professor Elwood started asking all her questions about trees, what did you mean by 'dream on'? Do you reckon I don't stand a chance? Or is it that I am way out of her league? I've heard that before, but surely I should be the one to decide who is in my league?"
Just then some bowtruckles began appearing, causing trouble. Elijah saw as one of the pests made as if to try and hurt Kurumi and he reached for his wand out of instinct, determined to start burning some bowtruckles. But, before he could actually react Kurumi had instructed everyone to stop and was asking if they had eggs and stuff on them.
First of all, Gryffie Prefect, breakfast was hours ago. Second of all, THIS WAS NOT THE TIME TO BE THINKING ABOUT FOOD. And thirdly, if she wanted eggs she would need a FIRE to cook them on, and he was certain bowtruckles would make the PERFECT campfire.
He turned to his 'Claw friend hoping that he maybe had a more appropriate idea of what to do in this situation and so far the Professor, who was supposed to be protecting them, was proving to be more than useless... Elijah was starting to question Vickers' taste in women.[/QUOTE]
Seriously if only it was possible to smack Elijah’s shoulder from this sitting position he would have. Instead he bit his lip and looked away as the Curly!Puff kept ribbing him on, not even looking at the Puff but knew full well how the he was teasing him. If he had a bit more daring he might’ve turned and given those pretty peepers a double poke. But he didn’t. After all he was a good Ravenclaw. not a mean Slytherin
And yes Mr Wilde, Vickers does happen to take pride in his intellect. He has to. He thinks its the only thing he’s got going for him.
Oh for Merlin’s sake the Badger brought up his last retort. That’s what happens when the brain filter slips Vanderbilt “I mean… yeah… Yeah! She IS out of your…I mean don’t bother with her. She’s not interested.” he grumbled as he evaded the Badger, and the subject matter, and tried to focus collecting the twigs. There were truths in those half-hearted lies. Certainly this Ravenclaw thinks he wasn’t appealing enough to the Gryffindor brunette so he thought HE wasn’t in her league, and the more he looks at Elijah, the more he realizes how different he was from the Puff, the more he starts to think that Kurumi may actually be interested with guys like him. A great smile, a head full of hair and those yellow robes… he didn’t know why he didn’t realize it sooner. Text Cut: Elwood, Murdoch and Bowtrucklesesssss Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01
As she was beginning to make her rounds, watching each student go about with their task, she looked up to see the Ravenclaw boy, Vickers, letting her know that he was going to start with the tinned woods first.
"Good choice. I had to dry these ones out for days so you guys could use them, you know." She nodded with a smile. The boy had seemed very interested in the lesson so far, despite the presence of his co-hort. Speaking of the Puff...
"That is...quite nice of you Mr. Wilde but please try to pay attention, lest you miss something important." Or a beast comes out and deflates your large head. She held back a grin at the thought just in time to hear a shout and some odd noises.
----------------------
What on Earth?
"Miss Hollingberry?" Callie had heard the Gryffindor Prefect before she had even turned from Elijah telling her classmates to stop what they were doing. The girl started the lesson practically mute and now she was trying to lead it? "Honestly, on what authority do you have the right to instruct MY students to stop what I've told them to--."
O_____O
"What in Merlin's beard are those things doing here?!" Callie took a step back from the nearest Bowtruckle that had landed near Kurumi and another young student. Gahhhh why did things like this have to happen during her lesson. The nearest kid to her was Vickers and she quickly and subtley took another step behind him and then spoke to the class, as they began to chirp up about wood lice and fairy egss.
"My appologies, Prefect Hollingberry, I didn't know you were warning us of danger but I don't have either of those things with me. I didn't expect us to be attacked by sticks." Which was ironic since that was basically the topic of the day's lesson.
What were they going to do?! She didn't know what spells, if any, to cast on the creatures and she certainly couldn't have kids getting hurt. She looked around and then pointed at those who had spoken up. "Sarah, Kurumi, and...you!" she said jabbing a finger in the air at the Ravenclaw Prefect (Spike). "You all fan out and help the other students search for woodlice and fairy eggs while I call for help. Everyone do NOT go near the Bowtruckles and stopp collecting sticks. We can continue once the situation is under control." The Groundskeeper and Care of Magical Creatures Professors would do nicely, seeing as they sent her in here without any warning.
She pulled out her wand and swished it through the air sending two pure white and wispy artic foxes into the direction of the Castle and Grounds. Now back to focussing all her energy on hiding watching out for the kids and Bowtruckles.
But after the other students had already called her attention to the situation there was one student who was still shouting most unecessarily. "Miss Potter! Please stop shouting, I've already been notified of the situation and you continuing to raise your voice is only going to make the creatures even more uneasy. Ten points for putting yourself and the rest of the class in possible danger." She said to the Hufflepuff, a tad exhasperated for having to deal with taking points amidst a crisis such as this.
"Please help your classmates search for the lice and eggs to placate the things." She added after a few steadying breaths.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BOWTRUCKLES! Two more Bowtruckles jumped from the tree canopy above and landed right infront of the lady soft one and one of the little boy ones with circles on his face--the harder to poke.
"Ra!" Said the fat one, as he poked two of his sharp fingers into the hem of the lady's skirt.
The smaller one ran at the boy screeching for lice and for the love of his trees. Quote:
Originally Posted by Destiny Ohhh..
Waylon KNEW he forgot to give Callie something! How he forgot, though, he had no idea. He was out all that morning collecting them. He even woke up early and everything! Labeled the buckets, too!
He could just put all the blame on Cece. If she hadn't barged into his hut the way she had, rearranging his pictures, he would have never been distracted. And it wasn't like the Healer would ever know anyway. Hehe. So, leaving her back at his hut once the Patronus arrived, Waylon made his way into the Forbidden Forest, his two lidded and labeled buckets in his hands. It took him nearly no time at all to find where the class was and.. what do you know? There really were Bowtruckles.
Staring at the little creatures for a moment, he popped open one of the buckets full of wood lice and held it out for Callie to take. Was she mad!? "I forgot to give these to you. Sorry."
Was he forgiven!?
Professor Elwood was getting upset. And Vickers gets upset when she gets upset. Although there was a part of him that wanted to butt in and say they weren’t STICKS they were legit CREATURES but she gave the next instructions about looking for wood lice.
He winced unconsciously. Its LICE. He’s semiOC. No other explanations necessary.
He tried to inch his way towards her when the Bowtruckles started to get aggressive. That fat one scratched Professor Elwood! Hastily he rushed forward only to be stopped by a smaller one screeching in front of him. ”I didn’t break any of the tree branches! I picked these up from the grass.” he said showing the sticks and dropping it in front of the creature as if returning them to it.
Wait why is he reasoning with the woody creature? 
Just then he saw the Groundskeeper come in with buckets of creepy crawly teeny tiny lice. He has to get to the Professor. "Groundskeeper Murdoch, if you don’t mind?..." he called out as he decided to bring out his wand—a risk he knows, given what he saw of one creature going after Elijah’s HAND—and levitated that one open bucket towards the edge of the forest AWAY from ALL of them, and purposely smacking that fat bowtruckle harassing the Professor to get its attention "YOU! Look, theres your lunch right there...." he called out as he hovered the bucket enticingly before dropping it at the foot of that far tree. Leave the Professor alone yeah? He looked down at his own smaller, screeching creature. "Look lunch! Right there! See?" he said point POINTING at the bucket, whilst iiiiinching his way to where the Professor was standing.
|