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Kirsten Delbin
Hufflepuff Fifth Year
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SPOILER!!: Question 1 Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01  Professor Elwood didn't seem to be in the room but she WAS...
Because of the light being so dim, her Galileo playing his part of showy bird distraction, and the overall unawareness of their surroundings a student usually has were working perfectly for Callie's plan. The blonde was hiding behind the arm chair at the front of the class so that no one could see her and ruin her lesson introduction. As she heard the students enter and complain about the heat she grinned mischeviously and placed her wand to her throat whispering, "Sonoros."
Suddenly a breeze went through the room, created by the professor to NOT make it cooler but to just blow out a few of the candles making it a tad darker than before. Creeeeeeeeepy. Now Elwood's voice floated into the classroom.
"Dreeaaamss! They become your reality when you go to sleep." she started, still behind her chair. "You can fly, you can walk on water, faires live among you," with that a sparkling of pink dust and light appeared to fall from the ceiling, "and dragons breath fire as you ride them." A huge flame tore across the ceiling and extinguished as it hit the far wall. Yes, she had been practicing that for weeks.
She undid the voice raising spell and spoke in her normal voice again. "Dreams." Professor Elwood popped up from behind her chair wishing she had her banshee costume from last term and grinned with a little pose to show how she suprised them. "They are also the window to the future in some cases. It's good to see you all here this afternoon and I am happy to see plenty of familiar faces." She winked and nodded at Kurumi, Loiusa, Sierra, Jory, the fainting girl from the Oghamn stave lesson, and others--a good batch of kids.
She needed to go on. The woman used her wand to light a few more candles returning the light to the original dimness as before she blew them out and sat down in her armchair. "What do you all know about dream Divination?" OCC: The lesson has officially started. No more posting your character arriving late or points will be taken; just pretend you've been here since the beginning. 
Minerva listened as the professor began class, but she wasn't completely sure she knew where the professor was. It had gotten dark and Minerva felt her heart rate pick up. She always got nervous in the dark. Not that she was horribly afraid, because she wasn't a little kid anymore, but she just felt a bit of nerves when the dark approached.
Thinking of the answer to the question Minerva put her hand up. "Well professor Dream Divination is when we look at our dreams to help us tell the future. Some of our dreams could be messages of things to come, whether it be good, bad, or maybe even about someone close to us." she was hoping she was at least close if nothing else. SPOILER!!: question 2 Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 SPOILER!!: Replies
The first student to answer was a Ravenclaw, ooh! Callie was proud, they had become her favorites since her time being at Hogwarts.
"That's correct, the technical name for Dream Divination is Oneiromancy." Not an overly indepth answer but great to get the ball rolling. The professor looked for the next hand raised.
"Yes, Mr. Vanderbilt, your right. The idea of dream interpretation is to pick apart the individual elements of a dream to see how they will affect your life to come." She nodded and smiled at him. He was a smart one, a good student to have in class. "I'm glad you mentioned the subconscience, but I will get to that in a minute."
The girl was obviously effected by her entrance and that thoroughly sparked excitment in the blonde Divination professor. "Good job Miss Somerlad, you're on the right track." The little snake seemed like she was almost there just not letting her mind explore all the possibilities.
"Good, good Prefect Gert. Dream Divination is just that." Callie was glad so many of them had heard of the subject. It just meant she didn't have to carry them the whole time.
Callie listened as the young Lion talked about her idea of dream divination, nodding the whole time. "Very good, although just because somehting has to do with what has happened to you in the previous days doesn't mean you can completely rule it out as being prophetic, you could be experiencing a premonition of something that will happen in result of whatever action you already performed. Don't rule anything out just yet." Elwood said with a smile.
Another Prefect. It was good to see that they were setting a good example for their classmates by attending the best class even the non-required classes.
"Yes good job. We can't just look at a dream as a random firing off of neutrons in the brain, they can actually mean something." She just needed to make sure all of the other students got that point.
Excellent!
"Yes good. Our minds can use dreams to potentially warn us of something that will happen in the near future. The trouble is we don't always remember all of our dreams." That made things tricky. They were doing well so far.
Professor Elwood didn't see a hand raised from the boy dressed in Hufflepuff robes sitting near the back but she did recognize who he was even in the poorly lit room. Elijah Wilde, the loose cannon of last term, had decided to continue in the Noble Art for another term after his reckless actions last spring. She eyed him more a moment and then turned to the other students answering her question.
She would deal with him in a minute.
Another dozer?!
The room seemed to be doing it's job. Callie couldn't believe that someone could fall asleep during a lecture about such a fascinating subject as Dream Divination but under the room's conditions she could see even stranger things happening.
He would be dealt with in one swoop alongside Elijah.
"They do come from out SUBconscious." She corrected the girl gently and nodded along. "And they inform us of things that we don't pick up when we are conscious." Callie understood what the girl meant despite her wording misshaps.
Ravenclaws just had too many thoughts going on at one time is seemed.
A very basic answer, but good all the same.
"Yes dear, that is a good start." Professor Elwood nodded at her and moved on to the next student.
What in Merlin's shined Crystal Ball?!
Callie had been ready to start the class after her spectacular introduction and had not expected Mr. Katharos to get up and frantically leave the room. "Mr. Katharos I am not finished with my lesson. Why do you need to leave, did you see a mouse? It is important for you to tell me if you actually saw a mouse!" Professor Elwood would NOT continue class if there was a mouse in the room but she wouldn't let them know that unless that was actually the case.
She could handle anything but mice. Ew.
Professor Elwood kindly walked over to the boy and pointed him back to his seat, assuring him that if there was a mouse he could leave.
"Ooooh an interesting point Mister Kinsley. Deja vu is an excellent suggestion. Deja vu oftentimes is the result of an action becoming true that once presented itself in your dream but you just don't really percieve it that way because you don't fully remember your dream." Pretty much deja vu was a very real thing.
Calista loved when younger students attended her lesson because they always had a fresh look at things.
"Ummm...I'm not entirely sure what you mean but okay." Professor Elwood looked at the Ravenclaw again tyrin gto further decipher the girl but just assumed she knew what she meant so who was she to question others' dogmas.
Whatever floats your boat.
"Yes, Miss Greingoth, you are correct. We always need to keep in mind that no matter how silly a dream may seem it may have real meaning behind it." The Prefect was being so cooperative, Callie didn't detect the tone that some of her collegues mentioned when talking about the girl.
"You could say that. Everyone has their own opinions on what type of Divination is better or more important than others." Elwood has expected more from Kurumi but perhaps she was just having an offday? The Divination Professor nodded at her and went on to the next student.
Maybe the girl was trying to cram all of the information in now and didn't read the textbook over the summer? Didn't seem like her.
This girl seemed very impressed by Professor Elwood's demonstration and she grinned brightly as she saw the girl save some of the pink fairy dust. How cute!
But instead of answering and being a good little Divination student she crossed her arms and said nothing. Well FIIIINE.
Oh a new student and Hufflepuff--she must have heard how awesome her class was and decided to take it.
But Elwood was not impressed with her answer, there seemed to be a bit of doubt behind her words. "It's important to never throw out any dream dear, even a dream about eating a ham sandwhich could hold deeper meaning perhaps even relating to life or death!" Yeah...that was a little over the top but it still could happen....oh! Like choking. Yep.
"Good job Jory, you're on the right track." The Hufflepuff certainly got the jist of things it seemed.
"Very good!" Callie's eyes twinkled a bit as she looked at the little Ravenclaw who seemed to be battling with herself in her head, probably about her answer. Those Ravenclaws were always trying to do their best at everything academic.
"Dreams are the way our subconscious talks to us and it is important that we do our best to listen. Good point, thank you." She would keep her eye on this newcomer; a new student mind to mold.
"Very good, Nerida, glad to see you have your thinking cap on today." The girl could always be counted on for a quick, to the point answer and she was a joy to have in her lessons.
And it was Louisa! Callie hand't gotten to talk to her this term so far or to congradulate her on her new position as Head Girl. She would have to invite her over to her office for some candy and gossip later.
"Yes, the technical term for dream divination is Oneiromancy. And thanks for mentioning that Egyptian text because it shows us just how widely spread and practiced these types of Divination are." Another smile to the Claw and Callie moved to the next student.
"Good, good you're on the right track." Callie smiled at the boy and went to the next student.
Callie looked at the Lion as she talked and nodded slowly as she got to the point of distrusting the practice, it was natural for those who were not fully immersed in the Noble Art to feel this way sometimes. "Good on the first point but I want to bring somethingto your attention about your doubt towards the end of your answer. Are not oppinons and multiple interpretations present in many subjects such as literature, philosophy and some historical events? The way we sift through the random and often times untrue interpretations is that we trust in professionals of the subject, the writers of your textbook, to inform us of the correct and most widely approved symbol interpretations, make sense?" So it wasn't all just guess work. She wanted to make sure that the whole class got that.
Very literal but still right.
"Yes, Laura, you are definately on the right track." The girl was a troublemaker according to the other Professors but she seemed to be fine and on task in Elwood's lessons.
"Very good, we use dreams in order to divine the future." Callie nodded and prepared to move the lesson on and to take care of those who were sleeping.
Professor Elwood done her best to reflect and work on each of the student's who spoke up's answer and when she was done with it she stood and walked towards Elijah's and Nigel's desks and pointed her wand at them, sending a stream of cold water to spray them both awake. "Now Mr. Wilde and Mr. Barrington, just because we are talking about things that happen when you are asleep does not mean that I want you to go to sleep during my lesson or to be rude and ignore your classmates as they speak. Disrupt my class again and you will have a points loss and perhaps detention." Yes she knew she made the disruption but she was the boss-lady.
"Alright, great answers everyone. It's clear that the majority of you all understand the basics of Oneiromancy which means you all either pay attention when your past professors rambled on about other forms of the subject or you have read ahead in your textbooks which, either way makes me proud of you all, good job." She crossed one leg over the other as she sat in her chair and thought for a moment where she was going to go next.
Oh, some things the students mentioned themselves. "Mr. Vanderbilt mentioned the idea of the subconscience in his answer which is where I want to start. Scientifically we know that dreams happen when the mind enters the REM cycle. Does anyone know what that is, what REM stands for, and can explain breifly what we know about it?" She wondered if she expected them to get that technical but they nest learn upfront that the subject was not all smoke and mirrors.
Minerva listened to all the answers and then couldn't help a quiet giggle when the professor woke up the sleeping students. She couldn't believe some of the behaviors this year. What was going on with all these students, but she did not want to think about that.. no it just made her crazy thinking how behind her house was now from all the weird things going on with students. Back to thinking about dreams, sleep, and divinations, yes that was what they were talking about.
Putting up her hand Minerva wasn't completely sure if she knew exactly what REM meant but it wasn't going to hurt to try at least, 'Professor Rem is a sleeping cycle where your eyes move back and forth. If it is the time you find your dreams, then it must be the time where you are sleeping in the deepest sleep and maybe not able to be woken up as easy." Yes, that sounded at least part right. Hopefully it didn't sound to weird or wrong.
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