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sweetpinkpixie · 01-16-2015, 03:52 AM

SPOILER!!: Norah

Hufflepuffs. Sweet solstice.

Although this little exercise in class now had him convinced that he could effectively convert at least ¼ of Hogwarts' student population to keeping pet rocks. He must speak with Meriberry immediately about the importance of teaching.

"As I told Mr. Tempus, you won't be hurting the pumpkin."

In fact, technically speaking, it was already dead and rotting. A thought that he obviously kept to himself.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

................. could he please stop with that look? The finger? Tia wanted to move her head back away from the professor, but something inside her just froze and no matter how much she wanted to move away, she couldn't.

What was it that she was laughing at? Your Prefect, Sir Tia wanted to answer, catching an apologetic look and mouthing of 'I'm Sorry' from the fifth year. Swallowing sharply she stared, willing herself not to blink. Honesty was best, wasn't it? "Well, if you must know, the clarification of pronunciations and the facial expressions and the excitability of a professor that is the equivalent of electron atoms bouncing around in free space searching for its compatible nucleus is quite the amusing property to witness." See, she knew about elections and nuclei. Sort of.

...................

Burning? Roasting? Sniffing the air, her brown eyes searched the room for the delicious aromas. But wait, "... don't you have a no food policy?" Or was that just Quigley? Regardless, too many broken rules to be worried over her laughing and mockery, right?

YES! HE MUST!

.....oh.

Well then. Excuse him for clearly overreacting. Ahem.

"Ah...I see," he muttered, rubbing his temples as his nose continued to pick up on the roasting smell. "Well, in that case. 50 points NOT taken from Ravenclaw...although I ought to take some for laughing at a classmate's expense." Because that was rude and they were all here to learn and make mistakes. "But not today."

Consider it a warning. Or something. Or an apology for shouting in the manner that he had.

"I do," he said, sniffing the air more intently now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by griffin

Was everything alright? Compared to some previous astronomy lessons, she was alright, but she did not really feel alright. Penelope closed her eyes, her hands still covering most of her face. She didn't look up at the professor, but said, "headache." Maybe she would feel better if she just sat here with her eyes closed. Until then, nothing was going to happen to her pumpkin.

"Class is almost over, Miss Wright, if you think you can survive another few minutes," he said, eyeing the Ravenclaw up and down nervously. "After which, perhaps you should go see the Healer."

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Originally Posted by Felixir

His pumpkin's duty. Sigh. Toby supposed that was right, but that didn't make him feel very good about it. It wasn't actually until Airey mentioned that it wouldn't feel a thing that Toby started to feel a little better about the whole thing. Yes... the pumpkin's duty... wouldn't feel a thing. Yes. Right.

Steeling himself slightly, Toby nodded at Professor Airey.

"Okay, thank you Professor," he said, with a salute for good measure. "I'll get started with Peter then." SENSE OF DUTY.

...

Peter? As in...Peter Peter pumpkin eater?

Airey blinked a few times at the young man before giving him a salute as the Hufflepuff went about his business.

----- RAT TIMELINE ----

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Originally Posted by Tazenhani

...
So she was doing Grus then. Great. She didn't need that piece of paper.

Tearing it out of her notebook, she crumpled it a few times to soften it up before offering it to the Professor. Because crumpled paper worked just like kleenex. Yup.

"Here...for the bleeding." If there was bleeding. She couldn't see, but she surmised there might be from how tightly he was griping it.

ROLLING IN AGONY! ROLLING! ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL-----oh.

Truth be told he hadn't actually SEEN if he was bleeding or not - although his imagination had made up a few things or two - but he eagerly took the, er, piece of parchment and wrapped. "Thank you," he whimpered. Cecelia was probably going to have to chop it off. His face went another shade of white at the thought.

SPOILER!!: Noah & Cahira & THE RODENT OF DOOM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gabben

The constellation Cygnus is of a swan. The story is that Cygnus had a friend who had drowned. Cygnus was unable to reach him and became very sad. Even after his friends death Cygnus could still not reach his friend so Cygnus begged the God Zeus for help. Zeus changed Cygnus into a swan so he could dive down in the water deeper to free his friend and lay him to rest properly. This could mean that the caster could be able to dive in water much better than they normally would have. I diving spell could come in handy for someone searching for something or even saving someone before the drowned.

*Looking up from his writing he saw the professor rolling around in front of him. What was all that for? Then he saw it. The rat came running up looking beyond scared and confused, probably from all of the yelling. Moving in front of the professor Noah moved quickly and grabbed the rat. He didn't want the little guy to get stepped on or hurt.*

"Got em! Ow! Bugger bit me!"

*Noah growled at the little furry ball of teeth. Maybe he should have let the thing get stepped on. Picking up the top of his pumpkin he stuffed the rat in it and placed the top back on quickly. The holes in his pumpkin were too small for the little rat to get out so he was safe for the time being. Turning back to the professor he looked confused. This was a grown man, what was he getting all freaked out over? Noah was pretty sure that rats no longer carried the black death. Still everyone had a fear he guessed.*

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Originally Posted by Sonea

Oh oh! The first thing she wanted to when she saw that the teacher was bitten by her rat Nabber was... Laughing! OH! This was so funny! She now REALLY loved her rat even more! This was just so cool! She could tell EVERYBODY that her rat had bitten a teacher! But.......... Instead of laughing like she wanted to she faked a shocked reaction and turned around to catch her rat, hoping that NOBODY would be stupid enough to touch her rat because... Her rat was just EVIL and would bite everybody who dared it to touch him and besides... It was HER rat and nobody was allowed to take what was hers!

And then she heard it, 15 points from Slytherin? NOOOO! This was just STUPID? Why had the professor asked her to empty her pocket? It was just unfair! It was his own fault that he was bitten! Eyeing the teacher dark after the point loss she tried to find her rat again. "NABBER! COME HERE AND DON'T ATTACK SOMEBODY ELSE!" Demanded she while she scanned the floor with her eyes, searching. But just when she spotted her rat, seeing how the animal wanted to run back to her, she saw... That the boy she had met during the summer had grabbed her rat?! WHAT WAS HE DOING!? "DONT TOUCH HIM!" Yelled Cahira angry when she saw what the boy did with her rat. Grabbing her rat back she pushed Nabber against her chest, looking worried... "Quick, hide before somebody will hurt you" whispered Cahira while she pushed her rat again in her pocket, staring back at the professor who was CLEARLY exaggerating this whole thing! And to give her detention because of this... It was JUST unfair!

Staring back at the boy she shook her head. "You're crazy to touch my rat like that? Do you want to die? He can bite you really badly" hissed she, irritated about EVERYTHING around her because of her point loss and detention! “It’s not the end of the world that he had bitten the professor but I don’t want him to attack other student’s without my permission” added she in a low voice to the boy, afraid that the professor would hear her.

Too busy imagining his life down a few digits, he THANKFULLY had not overheard the conversation between the two Slytherins. Which was a VERY good thing for the pair of them, especially Miss Jones whose fate was already destined for the horrors of a Flamsteed detention and whatever punishment her Head of House saw fit on top of that. And perhaps some words from Javy, perhaps.

All the astronomer knew was that the rat was in the pumpkin - to which the young man earned a half hearted but genuine salute - and he was going to die. Okay, so he didn't really know the latter but the throbbing of his paper wrapped finger indicated otherwise.

"OUT!" he said, pointing at the door to the classroom. "And be sure to take that Rodent of Doom with you."

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tegz

"Any time, professor. I totally do custom work." Totally. She should start charging but he could pay her by bumping her grade up or something.

But ugh... let loose? No way. Did he not get the point that her nails couldn't be damaged?

...

"You may only have nine fingers to paint instead of 10," he lamented, turning towards Miss Banner with a pathetic forlorn look.

SPOILER!!: Angel & Margo!

"I fear the Healer may have to chop it," he replied, clutching his finger a bit more firmly but still managing a smile towards the two girls. Worst case he would lose an arm if the infection spread too far.

Just ignore that it was still left to be seen if the astronut as actually bleeding.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarahlooo

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Evie stared at her paper for a moment an reread her paragraph. Honestly, she thought it was a bunch of junk, but that was all she could come up with. "Professor, where would you like these?" she said, holding up her small paragraph. Was class over now?
...

Checking his sundial watch - and actually looking PLEASED at the time - he looked towards the Ravenclaw. "Just right there on my desk, please," he said as he nodded his head in the direction of a vacant space near his pumpkin.

Something he ought to announce to the class now that he thought about it. He had been, ahem, a BIT distracted.

"Once you are done carving and writing, please leave your parchments on my desk and set your pumpkins on the ground in front of it," he said, using his foot to indicate each spot. "You will be putting some of these theories to test this Halloween as the ghosts and myself will be hosting an astronomy inspired Halloween party in the Spirit Room. Details on that, as well as homework, will be posted on your house noticeboards later. Class dismissed!"

So, hurry up and finish so he could rush to the Healer, yeah?

"House elves, thank you for coming today. If you could please take your buckets to the kitchens," he added with a wink. They knew what to do with that.

OOC: I'll leave this thread open for another 16 ish hours, so you still have time to finish RPing if you need it. Thanks for coming <3 Homework and party details will come after the closing of this threar

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sweetpinkpixie Wizarding World RPG Admin Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor Romanian Longhorn Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Paths Posts: 39,976 Hogwarts RPG Name: Briallen Ashburry-Hawthorne Gryffindor First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden Hufflepuff Second Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden Ravenclaw Second Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Calliope Barrington Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Diamond Marchbanks Gryffindor Sixth Year Ministry Department Head: Charles Hollingberry Minister's Office Ministry Department Head: Airey Flamsteed Mysteries Diagon Alley Proprietor: Zachaël Lufkin Owl Post x12 x12	astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK \| & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf SPOILER!!: Norah Quote: Originally Posted by Sararara Norah SIGHED a huge sigh as she looked back at Professor Flamsteed. Why were his eyes going all narrow? He was supposed to be the NICE professor. Then again he had just taken a bazillion points, but SHE wasn't breaking any rules...right? Opening her mouth to spout some explanation, the third year closed it again quickly to smile. Opening it again, she said, "Oh, I um. Um. I don't know..." She trailed off and stared at him with wide eyes. She was not cut out for this kind of life. the FIBBING life, not lying because she wasn't really lying if it was for a good cause, right? Admitting defeat, Norah got to her knees and pushed her bag aside. "Found it." She straightened up and placed Friedrich carefully on the table. Smiling apologetically at Professor Flamsteed, she lowered her voice to a whisper as her eyebrows knit together, smile faltering. "I just didn't want to hurt him." THERE. She SAID it. Now he could laugh at her and make her be a pumpkin murderer. Poor Friedrich. The third year glanced up at Professor Flamsteed again as she slowly picked up her wand. She couldn't CRY or everyone would think she was a baby, but she CARED about the pumpkin okay. She cared about lots of things. Hufflepuffs. Sweet solstice. Although this little exercise in class now had him convinced that he could effectively convert at least ¼ of Hogwarts' student population to keeping pet rocks. He must speak with Meriberry immediately about the importance of teaching. "As I told Mr. Tempus, you won't be hurting the pumpkin." In fact, technically speaking, it was already dead and rotting. A thought that he obviously kept to himself. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising ................. could he please stop with that look? The finger? Tia wanted to move her head back away from the professor, but something inside her just froze and no matter how much she wanted to move away, she couldn't. What was it that she was laughing at? Your Prefect, Sir Tia wanted to answer, catching an apologetic look and mouthing of 'I'm Sorry' from the fifth year. Swallowing sharply she stared, willing herself not to blink. Honesty was best, wasn't it? "Well, if you must know, the clarification of pronunciations and the facial expressions and the excitability of a professor that is the equivalent of electron atoms bouncing around in free space searching for its compatible nucleus is quite the amusing property to witness." See, she knew about elections and nuclei. Sort of. ................... Burning? Roasting? Sniffing the air, her brown eyes searched the room for the delicious aromas. But wait, "... don't you have a no food policy?" Or was that just Quigley? Regardless, too many broken rules to be worried over her laughing and mockery, right? YES! HE MUST! .....oh. Well then. Excuse him for clearly overreacting. Ahem. "Ah...I see," he muttered, rubbing his temples as his nose continued to pick up on the roasting smell. "Well, in that case. 50 points NOT taken from Ravenclaw...although I ought to take some for laughing at a classmate's expense." Because that was rude and they were all here to learn and make mistakes. "But not today." Consider it a warning. Or something. Or an apology for shouting in the manner that he had. "I do," he said, sniffing the air more intently now. Quote: Originally Posted by griffin Was everything alright? Compared to some previous astronomy lessons, she was alright, but she did not really feel alright. Penelope closed her eyes, her hands still covering most of her face. She didn't look up at the professor, but said, "headache." Maybe she would feel better if she just sat here with her eyes closed. Until then, nothing was going to happen to her pumpkin. "Class is almost over, Miss Wright, if you think you can survive another few minutes," he said, eyeing the Ravenclaw up and down nervously. "After which, perhaps you should go see the Healer." Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir His pumpkin's duty. Sigh. Toby supposed that was right, but that didn't make him feel very good about it. It wasn't actually until Airey mentioned that it wouldn't feel a thing that Toby started to feel a little better about the whole thing. Yes... the pumpkin's duty... wouldn't feel a thing. Yes. Right. Steeling himself slightly, Toby nodded at Professor Airey. "Okay, thank you Professor," he said, with a salute for good measure. "I'll get started with Peter then." SENSE OF DUTY. ... Peter? As in...Peter Peter pumpkin eater? Airey blinked a few times at the young man before giving him a salute as the Hufflepuff went about his business. ----- RAT TIMELINE ---- Quote: Originally Posted by Tazenhani ... So she was doing Grus then. Great. She didn't need that piece of paper. Tearing it out of her notebook, she crumpled it a few times to soften it up before offering it to the Professor. Because crumpled paper worked just like kleenex. Yup. "Here...for the bleeding." If there was bleeding. She couldn't see, but she surmised there might be from how tightly he was griping it. ROLLING IN AGONY! ROLLING! ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL-----oh. Truth be told he hadn't actually SEEN if he was bleeding or not - although his imagination had made up a few things or two - but he eagerly took the, er, piece of parchment and wrapped. "Thank you," he whimpered. Cecelia was probably going to have to chop it off. His face went another shade of white at the thought. SPOILER!!: Noah & Cahira & THE RODENT OF DOOM Quote: Originally Posted by Gabben The constellation Cygnus is of a swan. The story is that Cygnus had a friend who had drowned. Cygnus was unable to reach him and became very sad. Even after his friends death Cygnus could still not reach his friend so Cygnus begged the God Zeus for help. Zeus changed Cygnus into a swan so he could dive down in the water deeper to free his friend and lay him to rest properly. This could mean that the caster could be able to dive in water much better than they normally would have. I diving spell could come in handy for someone searching for something or even saving someone before the drowned. Looking up from his writing he saw the professor rolling around in front of him. What was all that for? Then he saw it. The rat came running up looking beyond scared and confused, probably from all of the yelling. Moving in front of the professor Noah moved quickly and grabbed the rat. He didn't want the little guy to get stepped on or hurt. "Got em! Ow! Bugger bit me!" Noah growled at the little furry ball of teeth. Maybe he should have let the thing get stepped on. Picking up the top of his pumpkin he stuffed the rat in it and placed the top back on quickly. The holes in his pumpkin were too small for the little rat to get out so he was safe for the time being. Turning back to the professor he looked confused. This was a grown man, what was he getting all freaked out over? Noah was pretty sure that rats no longer carried the black death. Still everyone had a fear he guessed. Quote: Originally Posted by Sonea Oh oh! The first thing she wanted to when she saw that the teacher was bitten by her rat Nabber was... Laughing! OH! This was so funny! She now REALLY loved her rat even more! This was just so cool! She could tell EVERYBODY that her rat had bitten a teacher! But.......... Instead of laughing like she wanted to she faked a shocked reaction and turned around to catch her rat, hoping that NOBODY would be stupid enough to touch her rat because... Her rat was just EVIL and would bite everybody who dared it to touch him and besides... It was HER rat and nobody was allowed to take what was hers! And then she heard it, 15 points from Slytherin? NOOOO! This was just STUPID? Why had the professor asked her to empty her pocket? It was just unfair! It was his own fault that he was bitten! Eyeing the teacher dark after the point loss she tried to find her rat again. "NABBER! COME HERE AND DON'T ATTACK SOMEBODY ELSE!" Demanded she while she scanned the floor with her eyes, searching. But just when she spotted her rat, seeing how the animal wanted to run back to her, she saw... That the boy she had met during the summer had grabbed her rat?! WHAT WAS HE DOING!? "DONT TOUCH HIM!" Yelled Cahira angry when she saw what the boy did with her rat. Grabbing her rat back she pushed Nabber against her chest, looking worried... *"Quick, hide before somebody will hurt you"* whispered Cahira while she pushed her rat again in her pocket, staring back at the professor who was CLEARLY exaggerating this whole thing! And to give her detention because of this... It was JUST unfair! Staring back at the boy she shook her head. "You're crazy to touch my rat like that? Do you want to die? He can bite you really badly" hissed she, irritated about EVERYTHING around her because of her point loss and detention! “It’s not the end of the world that he had bitten the professor but I don’t want him to attack other student’s without my permission” added she in a low voice to the boy, afraid that the professor would hear her. Too busy imagining his life down a few digits, he THANKFULLY had not overheard the conversation between the two Slytherins. Which was a VERY good thing for the pair of them, especially Miss Jones whose fate was already destined for the horrors of a Flamsteed detention and whatever punishment her Head of House saw fit on top of that. And perhaps some words from Javy, perhaps. All the astronomer knew was that the rat was in the pumpkin - to which the young man earned a half hearted but genuine salute - and he was going to die. Okay, so he didn't really know the latter but the throbbing of his paper wrapped finger indicated otherwise. "OUT!" he said, pointing at the door to the classroom. "And be sure to take that Rodent of Doom with you." Quote: Originally Posted by Tegz "Any time, professor. I totally do custom work." Totally. She should start charging but he could pay her by bumping her grade up or something. But ugh... let loose? No way. Did he not get the point that her nails couldn't be damaged? ... "You may only have nine fingers to paint instead of 10," he lamented, turning towards Miss Banner with a pathetic forlorn look. SPOILER!!: Angel & Margo! Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel was trying to figure out what to do next when she suddenly heard the Professor, was Hookstead back or was the Professor just freaking out? Angel was a bit concerned with the way he was going on. "Professor, you alright?" Angel thought she might as well ask him, she wondered if he needed the healer or anything. Quote: Originally Posted by Buggy-Boo Margo had just laid down her quill from writing her notes about the constellation. She felt good about it, her pumpkin looked great, she notes were done an now she could just coast into the end of the lesson. She survived another one. Margo was so hoping that Astronomy was going to be her best subject, but so far...ugh.....she's jus been okay.... Lost in her own thoughts all of sudden Margo heard a shriek and turned to see where the sound was coming from. Looking around seeing it was the Professor!! Holy Hippogriffs it was like a dog whistle it was so high pitch. "Professor are you alright?" Margo asked, doing her best not to giggle. Apparently there was something abut rat involved? Not Margo's favorite pet of choice either, but hey, she wasn't one to judge. Pulling out a band aid from her pocket, Margo always carried them around with her. "Do you need a band aid Sir?" Margo asked offering her last one out of her pocket. She would need to restock that's for sure. "I fear the Healer may have to chop it," he replied, clutching his finger a bit more firmly but still managing a smile towards the two girls. Worst case he would lose an arm if the infection spread too far. Just ignore that it was still left to be seen if the astronut as actually bleeding. Quote: Originally Posted by sarahlooo ... Evie stared at her paper for a moment an reread her paragraph. Honestly, she thought it was a bunch of junk, but that was all she could come up with. "Professor, where would you like these?" she said, holding up her small paragraph. Was class over now? ... Checking his sundial watch - and actually looking PLEASED at the time - he looked towards the Ravenclaw. "Just right there on my desk, please," he said as he nodded his head in the direction of a vacant space near his pumpkin. Something he ought to announce to the class now that he thought about it. He had been, ahem, a BIT distracted. "Once you are done carving and writing, please leave your parchments on my desk and set your pumpkins on the ground in front of it," he said, using his foot to indicate each spot. "You will be putting some of these theories to test this Halloween as the ghosts and myself will be hosting an astronomy inspired Halloween party in the Spirit Room. Details on that, as well as homework, will be posted on your house noticeboards later. Class dismissed!" So, hurry up and finish so he could rush to the Healer, yeah? "House elves, thank you for coming today. If you could please take your buckets to the kitchens," he added with a wink. They knew what to do with that. OOC: I'll leave this thread open for another 16 ish hours, so you still have time to finish RPing if you need it. Thanks for coming <3 Homework and party details will come after the closing of this threar __________________ When you're stuck in a moment and your spark has been stolen .................................................. ........... this is our time to own it, so own it..................................... baby we were born with fire and gold in our eyes