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LilFox06 
Anya flashed the Ravenclaw a smile. "No problem." Mo. That was his name, right? Or Mini Branxton. Actually, not the second. Anya herself hated being identified as the younger sibling, she was sure Mo would feel the same way.
"Next time keep it out of your hair. It's much too lovely for you to be growing bald." Much too lovely. ... yeah. She was a hair girl.
... and ... how did one's hair become dusty anyway?
She blinked several times at her arm. Why did he do that? ... And more importantly, did the professor see that?! Because! It totally counted as using the lint roller. Not that it mattered. Because she was pretending to be a Slytherin.
She grinned a little. "I accept chocolate." And compliments. But mostly chocolates. She then giggled a little at West. She'd let lint roller boy here handle the questions.
She then regained her seat. Eww... except her hands were sticky. Heh. She casually wiped them on Jake's shirt. All better. She then went back to watching the ceiling.
Keep it out of his hair and give her lots of chocolate. Check and check CHECKCHECKCHECK. He could do those things. Mo nodded very solemnly at Anya's instructions. He took his seat by West again, although he snuck a few tentative smiles back at his savior. Maybe she'd even saved him from... baldness. Blindness. Lint-roller-induced-insanity!
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sweetpinkpixie [FONT="Georgia"]Marching his way out of the planetarium and to the table outside the room where had put the lint roller, Airey let out a manly squeak at the lack of said item. This.Was.Not.Funny.
"Alright...who TOOK the lint roller?"
Because they were getting sucked into the black hole of detention! in trouble.
Airey turned around from the entrance of the planetarium when he heard all sorts of ruckus going on and let out another manly squeak with what he saw.
HOW IN ORION'S NAME HAD THAT BOY MANAGED TO GET A LINT ROLLER STUCK IN HIS HAIR!?
"MY LINT ROLLER!"
Ravenclaws...they were going to be the death of him. He could feel it.
Marching right back into the planetarium and towards the foolish boy with his lint roller stuck in his greasy dirty hair, he snapped his head to the young Gryffindor girl who had saved it. "Thank you for saving my lint roller," Airey said with a slight grumble to his tone. "5 points to Gryffindor." Because his lint roller was safe and out of Ravenclaw hair. "If I could please have that back. It it not fit for use as is." All dirty and stuff.
"As for you," he said, turning to the Ravenclaw boy who apparently thought that lint rollers made for nice hair decorations. "See me after class...in my office. And minus 5 points for improper use of a lint roller!" Not a request, mind you. And he was lucky Airey didn't take away a billion points for improper use of a lint roller!
He was just about to return to his position in the front of the class and get things started when he overheard the conversation between two Slytherins on his poor traumatized lint roller lint rollers and couldn't help but chime in a little - especially when the one showed so much curiosity.
"Thank you for explaining to your classmate," Airey said to the young she-snake. "5 points to Slytherin for doing so." And now to explain a bit further to the boy. "Just as your classmate said, a lint roller is a muggle device that is made up of a roll of one-sided adhesive paper on a cardboard or plastic barrel that is mounted on a central spindle, with an attached handle," he elaborated - somewhat quoting his Muggle Studies textbook - while reaching his arm into his breast pocket up to his elbow and pulling out a lint roller.
Undetectable Extension Charms. Totally awesome.
"This is one," he said as he handed it to the boy to use or poke or do what he wanted with. "As to why this over charms, afraid the only answer I can give you is that I love and appreciate certain aspects of muggle life. Lint rollers are one of them." Dry cleaners were another, but he didn't mention that for now. After all, he was here to teach Astronomy and not Muggle Studies.
Mo was feeling the top of his head, just in case baldness was occurring, as he best considered how to explain to West what he'd been doing with the roller. Not the actual purpose of it, although there was
that to explain, but just the overwhelming curiosity he'd had when it had been in his hand. He'd rolled it on the floor to see if it picked up a spider, and he'd rolled it over a broken quill to see if it picked that up. And then he'd just extended his experimentation and rolled it on his head.
Because how could he
not roll it on his head?
But he didn't have a chance to explain all this to West, although his expression probably expressed about half of it (some people were such slaves to their curiosity, and West ought to know by now), but then the Professor was there and glowering and very very intimidating. Mo's chin actually wobbled dangerously before the man backed off.
"
Sorry, Professor," Mo whispered, the expression on his face communicating the deep trauma he felt at disappointing the professor, disappointing his housemates, and probably embarrassing West.
Only... no. West was making supportive faces, so that was good, at least. Something was totally awful.
And he'd been looking forward to this class too.
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"We see from these lyrics several connections to astronomy. The more obvious connection is the use of star. It is also connected in that it shows man's curiosity of the cosmos and even gives a little bit of scientific explanation as to when most stars are visible in the sky. Most because there was a very VERY big star, our sun, that is most visible during the day because the Earth is rotating around it. When our part of Earth faces it, the sun's blue light - the same light that makes the sky blue, mind you - is so bright that it makes all other stars appear to vanish. BUT ANYWAY! I want you all to take a moment to think about what songs you know that you think have a connection to astronomy. Muggle and wizarding music, it doesn't matter. No connection is too small! Please only share one song please. No need to go into too much detail as to why it connects to astronomy. You may sing a few verses as well if you wish. " In fact, he highly encouraged it. "Oh, and if you could please say your name before you answer I would appreciate it."[/color]
He didn't even perk up at the thought of singing, although Mo took down careful notes the whole time the professor was speaking. There were lots of songs with star references, although sometimes they were more metaphorical stars than anything else. Less so songs with planets and comets and other heavenly bodies, although there were a few.
But songs about the whole universe? Those were extra special, right? Could he think of one of those? Mo tapped his quill on the top of his desk thoughtfully as he tried to think of a song. What was that one about the start of the universe? Oh yeah!
"Umm. My name is Marcus Orion Branxton, and I'm a third year. And I heard this song before about how the universe began and continues to expand, only one day it will all collapse in on itself. Which is pretty dire, actually, but not happening soon, so I guess we should just keep on like we're not worried."
Because he wasn't particularly worried about that. He WAS concerned and embarrassed about house points, though.
"Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unravelling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang! BANG!"
BANG. Mo sat down quickly and picked up his quill again, his eyes intent on his paper.