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PadfootAndTheWolf · 11-20-2012, 04:53 AM

SPOILER!!: Not quite

Despite mentioning the close spelling and pronounciation of Oculomancy compared to the distinctfully different art of Occlumency, a few students, albeit younger students, still mentioned to mix them up. No worries though. She just needed to set them straight.

"Actually, like I said before this is a different practice. This is a form of Divination where the eyes are used but not to read thoughts but rather to interpret reflections or other characteristics." Close but not the same.

SPOILER!!: Correct answers: Scrying and all that...

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Foresight. Right. IF the woman really had that and believed in the power of it and so on...shouldn't she be able to see that Kurumi just...wasn't into the subject? She ventured a glance towards her best friend and tried not to roll her eyes too obviously. She wasn't rude after all, just disenchanted.

Kurumi's hand went up anyway - despite thinking she would just sit through this lesson and not say anything. She actually sort of...enjoyed this particular form because it wasn't reeeeeeeally specific to Divination. Her and Lewis communicated with their eyes all the time. It was actually what had gotten them through their roughest patch last term. The things their eyes had said to one another. "It's a form of divination where you read the eyes of another. Interpret the reflections you see there. Sort of Divination's way of turning the phrase 'eyes are the window to the soul' only in this case it is scrying." Instead of windows...or something.

And...what had that voice been?!

o_______________O

Callie was wondering if someone would bring up that cliche. "Exactly Miss Hollingberry. That phrase is exactly correct when practicing Oculomancy. Good job. Basically one can categorize some forms of this practice as scrying for the eyes." The girl, despite her unusual perkiness, still seemed to be thinking along the same capacity as usual.

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Sierra tuned out the first part of the professor's announcement. It was only directed toward the seventh years, which didn't exactly include her. Wait, though. She was a sixth year, which meant she'd be a seventh year next term. OH, MY MERLIN! Was she really graduating in a little over a year?! NOOO. She just...no. MERLIN! She hadn't ever thought about the world outside living at home with mom and dad.

She blinked and then tuned back in.

...but anyway. "In answer to your question, though, Oculomancy is when you look into a person's eyes and use the reflections you see to come up with a reading," she said.

"Good, good Prefect Greingoth." Callie couldn't understand why a few professors had told her to watch out for this one, The past two terms that she had attended her lessons, the Minister's daughter was nothing but an angel. She participated, helped with that wagon disaster in her first lesson last term, and answered her questions correctly.

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Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Text Cut: Professor Callie <3 & Vicky <3

Oh no... was the first thing Louisa thought of when the professor gave them a little goodbye speech. Not because she hated goodbyes (which she did) but it wasn't necessary to sniff and wipe her eyes with the presence of so many students. So Louisa sniffed and widened her smile at the blonde woman. She was way better than the Centaur, basically because she didn't have hooves... which made her more relatable and easier to connect with.

Louisa was about to smile at Vickers for being here as always when the weird voice echoed in the room urging the professor to talk already. Her mouth hung slightly open, her eyes bulging out a bit as she stared at where the voice came from. What on earth was that? Galileo? Nope.

And the professor obliged. The Ravenclaw managed to turn her attention back to the woman after an extra moment of staring at the anonymous. So they were going to learn about Oculomancy not Occlumancy. Hmmm. She didn't know much about that, really. Her hand was in the air nonetheless to offer what she knew. "It's a practice where the diviner studies the eyes of a person, their shape, color and even the reflections in said eyes. That's as a way of interpreting the personality of the individual, or if the diviner is good enough, see beyond personality to clues about their life circumstances." When she put down her hand, her gaze fell on her table companion and noticed that he was staring already. Louisa simply grinned at him.

The confused look on Louisa's face from the voice emitting from behind her was pretty comical to see but she didn't say anything about it but commented on her answer. "Exactly! All of those things are involved in the various forms of Oculomancy. And we will be studying one of those branches today."

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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict

Selina grinned at the wink her Professor threw to her. See? It was reasons like this that Elwood really was the coolest Professor she knew. What other Professor would wink at her students? Only the cool ones- so probably Bentley counted in that category as well. The idea of Lafay winking gave Selina a stomach ache. Eek.

Once she was next to Kurumi, she poked her best friend in the side and smiled at her. She was going to miss these moments next year when Kurumi was gone and Selina was lacking in the best friend department, but they would write, yeah?

Turning away from Kurumi when the lesson started, Selina tuned into Elwood. Scribbling down on her parchment as fast as she could, the redhead looked up from her paper when she heard the random voice. What in Merlin's name? Ugh, whatever. This lesson was about Oculomancy. OH OH! She had read about that during her... extra studies.

Her hand shot up in the air, "Proffesor, its a type of divination where you look into someone's eyes and read their reflections." Actually, to be more precise it was a type of scrying, which usually was not a good thing for Selina. It really confused her head, she always saw weird things, which- for her gift- wasn't so weird. Whatever.

"That is one way you can perform this type of Divination, good Selina." Callie smiled at the girl. Such a bright kid. She knew that she had probably actually read about the subject before.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

A speech? This had been the first professor so far that said anything at all about the seventh years leaving. Merlin... was she going to cry? Hannah really hoped not... she didn't do well with criers. Then out of no where she heard another voice telling the professor to get a move on. Hannah agreed with the voice, but she wanted to know who said that and what was going on. Her prefect had already beat her to the punch so she would wait and see what the answer was.

Oculomancy. Hmmm... "Professor it has something to do with using a persons eyes to read them." She wasn't sure about every little detail but she knew that she was on the right track atleast.

"Good, yes dear." Professor Elwood nodded at the Slytherin's answer and made a mental note to go on further as she explained it.

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

Oh Merlin, reading someone's eyes? Now he really had seen everything. Next week Elwood would announce they were going to be reading people's noses to figure out their lifespan or something. He was not looking forward to looking at someone's eyes when they got to the practical part of this lesson, that was for sure.

"Professor, it's divination that involves reading the reflection in someone's eye," he stated, raising his hand.

The Greingoth male.

Calista hadn't had as much interractions with him as she had with his sister but he seemed alright. A Hufflepuff so he couldn't be too big of a trouble-maker, at least that's what she thought of that house. "That is certainly one of the more popular forms of the art, yes. Good job Mr. Greingoth."

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Originally Posted by ForeverYours

Bliss heard that wrong first time. Not Occulomancy. That was actually being able to read someone's mind. Oculomancy was different, she thought to herself before raising for hand. "I think it's something to do with being able to understand how someone's feeling and what their thoughts are, by looking into their eyes," Bliss said semi-confidently. "Or something like that," she muttered afterwards. That was right. Right?

AWKWARD STARE AROUND THE CLASSROOM.

Bliss twiddled her thumbs. She thought she was right, after all her dad had told her all about different mind reading skills after he had told her that she might be telepathic. That was still a shock. She didn't even WANT to be telepathic, think about about all the trouble it would cause. There would be upsides, but there'd be downsides too. Plenty of them. Eh, well..she'd cross that bridge when she had to.

Focus-on-the-Professor.

"Thoughts and feelings can definately be mixed in with your interpreations, good point of view on that." Callie hadn't expected that as one of the main answers but she appreciated the fact the girl gave the class a new way to look at the exercise.

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella did her best not to listen to the speech the Professor was giving the seventh years. Honestly? The third year didn't even want to think about them leaving. She didn't want them to go, especially not Max and Edric. They were her brothers and who else was going to make sure she didn't get into trouble? FROWN.

Blink.Blink. Where on earth had that voice come from? The third year tilted her head to the side with a curious expression before shrugging it off. She was sure they'd find out soon enough. Oh and Oculomancy? Ella had heard of that before. It was all about the eye contact, yeah? "Professor, this is when someone reads the erm...reflections in one's eyes." She figured it was probably a lot like a really intense staring contest or something along those lines. Seemed legit.

"Yes a form of Oculomancy does depend on the reflections created in the gazers or the subject's eyes." The students were much more educated on the subject than she had imagined. It proved they were smart and read ahead.

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Originally Posted by hpfan18

SPOILER!!: Professor!

Belle was sad that this was their last divination lesson. Not only does she have to worry about NEWT's but she will also have to pick out what she wants to be when she leaves hogwarts. She did not want to think about that right now. Focus on the lesson. Belle smiled at the professor giving her goodbye speech.
Then the professor asked a question. What is oculomancy? Belle heard that term before. She did not know where. Belle raised her hand and said, "Professor i know it is the study of predicting the future through the eyes." That is all she knew. She knew occulmency was the study of the mind, well trying to read your thoughts.

Not a very detailed answer but still technically correct. "Yes, very good."

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Originally Posted by THE Govoni

Dylan grinned at her greeting and leaned back in his seat, feeling in an exceptionally good mood today.

...and then a speech was being given. Erm...He wasn't a seventh year and all that. It didn't apply to him. So, the Slytherin sat there rather uninterested in the potential emotional display. He didn't really deal with those well...Kinda like when Cookie was talking to him about Walnut...It. Was. Awkward.

Hearing her question, he was in the process of answering...when everyone had jumped on it at once. His eyebrow arched and lips crooked to the side...Dylan was clearly amused..."I'm going to chance a guess and say it has something to do with the eyes." It was said out of sarcastic amusement, of course...He was admitting it.

The Captain didn't care, of course.

What was he so smug about?

Calista eyed the Slytherin Captain as he was all smiles and then gave his answer. He was probably just trying to act cool for the girls in the room and she really didn't see a need to embarrass or call him out. "Yes, Mr. Montmorency, the eyes are sort of essential in today's lesson."

le sigh

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Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa

What the, Oculamancy? What the bloody heck was that? I know what occlumancy is, that would definately be easier to answer. Oh well, I guess I'll have to do a little research to get this answer. She flipped to the glossary section of her divination book and oculamancy. She then raised her hand and answered, "Oculamancy is studying the characteristics of peoples eyes to tell the the future". She was a bit scepical how that would actually work but she was willing to atleast try it even if she had her qualms about believing anything from it.

"Yes very good." Callie had seen to all of the hands raised and was glad to see most knew what she was talking about ready to move on?

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Originally posted by Anna Banana
...just in time to hear some weird voice speak up. It was coming from...behind the desk. "Professor?" she asked, raising her hand. "Who else was that speaking?" Yeah. She didn't bite her tongue for anything. "There was a second voice coming from behind your desk."

There were professors being eaten around here, and yeah...Sierra just wanted to check and make sure there wasn't a little something extra lurking in the corners.

Oh they had noticed? Callie asked herself as if the plethory of confused looks, heads being tilted, and occasional look of pure horror wasn't enough to already answer that. She really should have given them a warning before hand should she have? What with Professor Burbage gone missing and other strange things happening around the Castle. "Everyone it's nothing to worry about I just have a few friends here to help us out with our activity. Which we will be moving onto shortly."

Repeat, nothing to worry about!

Aright time to move on. "The majority of you all mentioned reflections in your definitions of Oculomancy and that is correct but today we won't be studying the scrying meathod of the subject. Instead I would like us all to focus on the other portion, the characteristics of the eyes that will allow us insight into the person's personality and characteristics which let us make inferences into what situations they excell and fail at or any other path they may travel."

The Divination Professor walked back to her desk from the board and sat on it's front facing the class. "Prefect Carter here has mentioned color and shape of eyes, do you all know of any specifics in this area and their meanings to Oculomancy?" Examples people, the activity will commense soon enough.

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PadfootAndTheWolf formerly: DanialRadFAN01 Bicorn Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: On SS of course! Posts: 16,988 Hogwarts RPG Name: Kiera Burton x6	Gaga Mafia Monster : MURPHY : Kelvin's SS!BFAM : Roro's Evil Twin : Ravlyndor : Gopher SPOILER!!: Not quite Quote: Originally Posted by Princesspower Sarah raised her hand, "is it not reading another person's minds?" she asked. Sarah did not want to know if she knew what others were thinking - would it be nice or horrible? She did not know although she would like to experience it. Although she did not want others to read her thoughts - if people would know what the inner Sarah is like... Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Laura looked at the Professor and smiled. "Occlumency, is about getting into someone mind and reading it." Laura smiled. "You could look back at some of their darkest memories and make them suffer." Laura would really loved to be able to do that to Elliot but the Professor wasn't going to know that. Quote: Originally Posted by lazykitty A speech! Emmanuelle listened closely to it and felt her eyes get a little misty. Yep, she was one of those aforementioned seventh years whose last Divination class it was. She nodded her head politely in the professor's direction when it was over while discreetly wiping the tears out of her eyes. Which was strange, because she really hadn't expected to cry this soon. She figured that emotion would hold off until the closing feast, but whatever. Anyway, on with the lesson, and Em jumped a little when she the voice coming from..... well, just where was it coming from, anyway? And who was it? Okay something similar to Occlumancy. Which was reading people's memories. Hmm... So something to do with memories? "Um, using someone's memories to come up with a reading?" That would be similar to reading someone's memories, right? Despite mentioning the close spelling and pronounciation of Oculomancy compared to the distinctfully different art of Occlumency, a few students, albeit younger students, still mentioned to mix them up. No worries though. She just needed to set them straight. "Actually, like I said before this is a different practice. This is a form of Divination where the eyes are used but not to read thoughts but rather to interpret reflections or other characteristics." Close but not the same. SPOILER!!: Correct answers: Scrying and all that... Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Foresight. Right. IF the woman really had that and believed in the power of it and so on...shouldn't she be able to see that Kurumi just...wasn't into the subject? She ventured a glance towards her best friend and tried not to roll her eyes too obviously. She wasn't rude after all, just disenchanted. Kurumi's hand went up anyway - despite thinking she would just sit through this lesson and not say anything. She actually sort of...enjoyed this particular form because it wasn't reeeeeeeally specific to Divination. Her and Lewis communicated with their eyes all the time. It was actually what had gotten them through their roughest patch last term. The things their eyes had said to one another. "It's a form of divination where you read the eyes of another. Interpret the reflections you see there. Sort of Divination's way of turning the phrase 'eyes are the window to the soul' only in this case it is scrying." Instead of windows...or something. And...what had that voice been?! o_______________O Callie was wondering if someone would bring up that cliche. "Exactly Miss Hollingberry. That phrase is exactly correct when practicing Oculomancy. Good job. Basically one can categorize some forms of this practice as scrying for the eyes." The girl, despite her unusual perkiness, still seemed to be thinking along the same capacity as usual. Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana Sierra tuned out the first part of the professor's announcement. It was only directed toward the seventh years, which didn't exactly include her. Wait, though. She was a sixth year, which meant she'd be a seventh year next term. OH, MY MERLIN! Was she really graduating in a little over a year?! NOOO. She just...no. MERLIN! She hadn't ever thought about the world outside living at home with mom and dad. She blinked and then tuned back in. ...but anyway. "In answer to your question, though, Oculomancy is when you look into a person's eyes and use the reflections you see to come up with a reading," she said. "Good, good Prefect Greingoth." Callie couldn't understand why a few professors had told her to watch out for this one, The past two terms that she had attended her lessons, the Minister's daughter was nothing but an angel. She participated, helped with that wagon disaster in her first lesson last term, and answered her questions correctly. Quote: Originally Posted by Magical Soul Text Cut: Professor Callie <3 & Vicky <3 Oh no... was the first thing Louisa thought of when the professor gave them a little goodbye speech. Not because she hated goodbyes (which she did) but it wasn't necessary to sniff and wipe her eyes with the presence of so many students. So Louisa sniffed and widened her smile at the blonde woman. She was way better than the Centaur, basically because she didn't have hooves... which made her more relatable and easier to connect with. Louisa was about to smile at Vickers for being here as always when the weird voice echoed in the room urging the professor to talk already. Her mouth hung slightly open, her eyes bulging out a bit as she stared at where the voice came from. What on earth was that? Galileo? Nope. And the professor obliged. The Ravenclaw managed to turn her attention back to the woman after an extra moment of staring at the anonymous. So they were going to learn about Oculomancy not Occlumancy. Hmmm. She didn't know much about that, really. Her hand was in the air nonetheless to offer what she knew. "It's a practice where the diviner studies the eyes of a person, their shape, color and even the reflections in said eyes. That's as a way of interpreting the personality of the individual, or if the diviner is good enough, see beyond personality to clues about their life circumstances." When she put down her hand, her gaze fell on her table companion and noticed that he was staring already. Louisa simply grinned at him. The confused look on Louisa's face from the voice emitting from behind her was pretty comical to see but she didn't say anything about it but commented on her answer. "Exactly! All of those things are involved in the various forms of Oculomancy. And we will be studying one of those branches today." Quote: Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Selina grinned at the wink her Professor threw to her. See? It was reasons like this that Elwood really was the coolest Professor she knew. What other Professor would wink at her students? Only the cool ones- so probably Bentley counted in that category as well. The idea of Lafay winking gave Selina a stomach ache. Eek. Once she was next to Kurumi, she poked her best friend in the side and smiled at her. She was going to miss these moments next year when Kurumi was gone and Selina was lacking in the best friend department, but they would write, yeah? Turning away from Kurumi when the lesson started, Selina tuned into Elwood. Scribbling down on her parchment as fast as she could, the redhead looked up from her paper when she heard the random voice. What in Merlin's name? Ugh, whatever. This lesson was about Oculomancy. OH OH! She had read about that during her... extra studies. Her hand shot up in the air, "Proffesor, its a type of divination where you look into someone's eyes and read their reflections." Actually, to be more precise it was a type of scrying, which usually was not a good thing for Selina. It really confused her head, she always saw weird things, which- for her gift- wasn't so weird. Whatever. "That is one way you can perform this type of Divination, good Selina." Callie smiled at the girl. Such a bright kid. She knew that she had probably actually read about the subject before. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixStar A speech? This had been the first professor so far that said anything at all about the seventh years leaving. Merlin... was she going to cry? Hannah really hoped not... she didn't do well with criers. Then out of no where she heard another voice telling the professor to get a move on. Hannah agreed with the voice, but she wanted to know who said that and what was going on. Her prefect had already beat her to the punch so she would wait and see what the answer was. Oculomancy. Hmmm... "Professor it has something to do with using a persons eyes to read them." She wasn't sure about every little detail but she knew that she was on the right track atleast. "Good, yes dear." Professor Elwood nodded at the Slytherin's answer and made a mental note to go on further as she explained it. Quote: Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom Oh Merlin, reading someone's eyes? Now he really had seen everything. Next week Elwood would announce they were going to be reading people's noses to figure out their lifespan or something. He was not looking forward to looking at someone's eyes when they got to the practical part of this lesson, that was for sure. "Professor, it's divination that involves reading the reflection in someone's eye," he stated, raising his hand. The Greingoth male. Calista hadn't had as much interractions with him as she had with his sister but he seemed alright. A Hufflepuff so he couldn't be too big of a trouble-maker, at least that's what she thought of that house. "That is certainly one of the more popular forms of the art, yes. Good job Mr. Greingoth." Quote: Originally Posted by ForeverYours Bliss heard that wrong first time. Not Occulomancy. That was actually being able to read someone's mind. Oculomancy was different, she thought to herself before raising for hand. "I think it's something to do with being able to understand how someone's feeling and what their thoughts are, by looking into their eyes," Bliss said semi-confidently. "Or something like that," she muttered afterwards. That was right. Right? AWKWARD STARE AROUND THE CLASSROOM. Bliss twiddled her thumbs. She thought she was right, after all her dad had told her all about different mind reading skills after he had told her that she might be telepathic. That was still a shock. She didn't even WANT to be telepathic, think about about all the trouble it would cause. There would be upsides, but there'd be downsides too. Plenty of them. Eh, well..she'd cross that bridge when she had to. Focus-on-the-Professor. "Thoughts and feelings can definately be mixed in with your interpreations, good point of view on that." Callie hadn't expected that as one of the main answers but she appreciated the fact the girl gave the class a new way to look at the exercise. Quote: Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Ella did her best not to listen to the speech the Professor was giving the seventh years. Honestly? The third year didn't even want to think about them leaving. She didn't want them to go, especially not Max and Edric. They were her brothers and who else was going to make sure she didn't get into trouble? FROWN. Blink.Blink. Where on earth had that voice come from? The third year tilted her head to the side with a curious expression before shrugging it off. She was sure they'd find out soon enough. Oh and Oculomancy? Ella had heard of that before. It was all about the eye contact, yeah? "Professor, this is when someone reads the erm...reflections in one's eyes." She figured it was probably a lot like a really intense staring contest or something along those lines. Seemed legit. "Yes a form of Oculomancy does depend on the reflections created in the gazers or the subject's eyes." The students were much more educated on the subject than she had imagined. It proved they were smart and read ahead. Quote: Originally Posted by hpfan18 SPOILER!!: Professor! Belle was sad that this was their last divination lesson. Not only does she have to worry about NEWT's but she will also have to pick out what she wants to be when she leaves hogwarts. She did not want to think about that right now. Focus on the lesson. Belle smiled at the professor giving her goodbye speech. Then the professor asked a question. What is oculomancy? Belle heard that term before. She did not know where. Belle raised her hand and said, "Professor i know it is the study of predicting the future through the eyes." That is all she knew. She knew occulmency was the study of the mind, well trying to read your thoughts. Not a very detailed answer but still technically correct. "Yes, very good." Quote: Originally Posted by THE Govoni Dylan grinned at her greeting and leaned back in his seat, feeling in an exceptionally good mood today. ...and then a speech was being given. Erm...He wasn't a seventh year and all that. It didn't apply to him. So, the Slytherin sat there rather uninterested in the potential emotional display. He didn't really deal with those well...Kinda like when Cookie was talking to him about Walnut...It. Was. Awkward. Hearing her question, he was in the process of answering...when everyone had jumped on it at once. His eyebrow arched and lips crooked to the side...Dylan was clearly amused..."I'm going to chance a guess and say it has something to do with the eyes." It was said out of sarcastic amusement, of course...He was admitting it. The Captain didn't care, of course. What was he so smug about? Calista eyed the Slytherin Captain as he was all smiles and then gave his answer. He was probably just trying to act cool for the girls in the room and she really didn't see a need to embarrass or call him out. "Yes, Mr. Montmorency, the eyes are sort of essential in today's lesson." le sigh Quote: Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa What the, Oculamancy? What the bloody heck was that? I know what occlumancy is, that would definately be easier to answer. Oh well, I guess I'll have to do a little research to get this answer. She flipped to the glossary section of her divination book and oculamancy. She then raised her hand and answered, "Oculamancy is studying the characteristics of peoples eyes to tell the the future". She was a bit scepical how that would actually work but she was willing to atleast try it even if she had her qualms about believing anything from it. "Yes very good." Callie had seen to all of the hands raised and was glad to see most knew what she was talking about ready to move on? Quote: Originally posted by Anna Banana ...just in time to hear some weird voice speak up. It was coming from...behind the desk. "Professor?" she asked, raising her hand. "Who else was that speaking?" Yeah. She didn't bite her tongue for anything. "There was a second voice coming from behind your desk." There were professors being eaten around here, and yeah...Sierra just wanted to check and make sure there wasn't a little something extra lurking in the corners. Oh they had noticed? Callie asked herself as if the plethory of confused looks, heads being tilted, and occasional look of pure horror wasn't enough to already answer that. She really should have given them a warning before hand should she have? What with Professor Burbage gone missing and other strange things happening around the Castle. "Everyone it's nothing to worry about I just have a few friends here to help us out with our activity. Which we will be moving onto shortly." Repeat, nothing to worry about! Aright time to move on. "The majority of you all mentioned reflections in your definitions of Oculomancy and that is correct but today we won't be studying the scrying meathod of the subject. Instead I would like us all to focus on the other portion, the characteristics of the eyes that will allow us insight into the person's personality and characteristics which let us make inferences into what situations they excell and fail at or any other path they may travel." The Divination Professor walked back to her desk from the board and sat on it's front facing the class. "Prefect Carter here has mentioned color and shape of eyes, do you all know of any specifics in this area and their meanings to Oculomancy?" Examples people, the activity will commense soon enough.