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Steelsheen · 09-17-2017, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch

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Her question sparked raised hands and Olivia was first to share her thoughts. Where the lioness was going with the metaphorical storm Laurel wasn't entirely sure but the other things she said were valid. Nodding kindly she said. "Birds are very receptive to all changes in the weather and danger like you said Olivia so if you for example walk in a forest and all the chattering birds go super quiet then you can expect looming danger or even an upcoming storm ahead in your immediate future." It paid to be observant of birds and all creatures really.

Zoryn spoke next and Laurel turned her head to the other lioness with a smile even though she felt that the girl hadn't exactly put much thought into her answer. "Roosters sing every morning yes Zoryn but you shouldn't see it as an annoyance but rather as a free alarm clock that you don't have to set. Very useful if you think about it." No need to worry about batteries or if the spell had depleted its energy a rooster always cried at the dawn of a new day.

Dahlia was next and she provided a thought worthy question that deserved a response. Letting her eyes rest on the young badger Laurel said with a beam. "Interesting that you brought that up Dahlia. Birds do have their own language of communication and they use their cries to call out and warn the rest of their flock when a predator is near so that they can get way quickly. If humans could understand and speak the language of birds then yes the cries might help us too except that birds and humans don't share many common predators."

Emmeline followed after Dahlia bringing up the song of the pheonix. Smiling over at the lioness she nodded "Yes the pheonix song fits Emmeline. The people a pheonix chooses to sing for is given increasing strength, courage, hope and love like how the late great headmasterDumbledore's pheonix; Fawkes did for Harry Potter in his duel against Voldermort back in the day." Many years had passed since.

Little Maddie Kemp surprised Laurel by literally taking her up on her words by dashing forwards to say hello to the four augureys in their stall. Slightly distracted by the girls action Laurel heard only some parts of her answer which she responded to with a kind look in the girl's direction. "You right Maddie birds are similar to humans in the respect that they can cry for different reasons. The pheonix tears for example has healing properties, the cry of a rooster can wake someone up, or like our augureys do foretell rain. The cry's meaning changes with circumstance just like for us humans."

Turning her gaze to Vivian she nodded happily "Yes definitely Vivian if the birds sees the person or other creature that enters their territory as a threat they need to protect themselves from their cries will both mean to back off and as a warning to the rest of their flock." Birds were very flock orientated and they defended that.

Letting her eyes dart over the student faces Laurel came to stop on Hattie as the girl offered up her question to the mix. Beaming she nodded in response. "Yes Hattie, owls or any species of birds can use their cries to let others of their species know that they are there especially if they want to find a mate for instance." To just bring up one example.

Gaze shifting to Shay she responded with a kind smile pursing her lips. "Yes Shay the birds flight patterns can foretell general weather and temperature changes that humans aren't as nature attuned to as humans are like storms, earthquackes, rain and danger like predators and so on."

Laurel turned to Rhea last who had waited the longest to share her thoughts on the subject. Beaming at the eagle she said "Yes that's true Rhea all bird mothers communicate with their babies with certain individual calls and they would sense if they had an unwanted cuckoo in tthe nest. And canaries have been known to be used by mine workers as danger alarms one might call them since they stop singing if danger is close."

Rhea was the last to offer up an answer and since none of the other students seemed eager to contribute more to discussion she felt it time to move on. Leaning a hand into the augurey's stall she let Julia hop on to her arm before she turned to face and speak to the students as she stroked the augurey over the feather. "Now then let's move on to our main practical portion since I think you've all by now have gotten some idea of what Ornithomancy is and I think you are more than ready to do some readings. What you'll need for this Ornithomancy reading is the help of an augurey, bird feed, plastic alphabet letters and a thought up yes/no question."

Here Laurel paused to with a few flicks of her wand make the needed materials appear on the floor in front of her feet and to allow the information to sink in. The alphabet letters were now visible in an open chest and dead flies, fairies and insects were lying in several baskets that gave off heavy smells. With the augurey still sitting on her arm laurel gestured for the students to come closer. "To perform the reading you need to form the words yes and no with the plastic letters on the ground and then put generous amounts of bird feed over the letters. When you've done that you need to think up a good yes or no question for tomorrow that you want the answer to then you voice it out loud mine would be 'Will I get a letter with tomorrow mornings post owls from Imogen Greyvson' then you have to release the augurey and watch which pile of bird feeding it goes for first because that will give you the answer to your question. You might need to coax the augurey into action, but they should be hungry since Prof Wayland hasn't fed them yet today." As she talked the letters formed themselves into words at her feet and flies and insects and fairys landed on top of the words and the augurey known as Julia flew down from Professor Vances arm and began to peck with intensity at the feeding over the no word.

A flash of disappointment crossed over Prof Vance's face as she said "How unfortunate maybe I'll hear back another day. Anway hop to it everyone Julia, Artreyu, Susie and Romeo are here to aid you with your readings. You've got 45 minutes to get your readings done!"

OOC: Main activity time! You've got until Wednesday September 20th at around 7pm to complete the activity before i wrap up the lesson. Each house has their own augurey at their disposal that the students of that house would take turns with.

Artreyu - Hufflepuff
Julia- Ravenclaw
Romeo - Gryffindor
Susie- Slytherin

As Laurel explained above you need to perform these steps to be able get full activity credit for the ornithomancy reading in as many or as few posts as you want.

1. Fetch bird generous amounts of birds feeding and the plastic letters
2. Use the plastic letters to form the words YES and NO on the ground
3. Pile bird feeding over the formed words
4. Think up a good Yes/No question that your student wants the answer to and then say it out loud.
5. Release the 'house' augurey and if needed coax it into eating the food available and interpret what that means for your students asked question.

Have fun with this! Be creative! If you have any questions then don't hestiate to vm/pm or ask me in the lesson thread..

Hmm so can bird be used other than the Wizarding World's most underpaid meteorologist? His experience earlier was a solid clue that they can have other uses, but just as he was about to speak up, the Slytherin Prefect verbalized his thoughts. Mmhm yes that, Mama Nature's security alarm system yo.

And now they have to deal with Augureys. Listen he can believe in Ornithomancy just fine, but he found in a bit hard to believe that a bird who is practically a stranger to him knows him well enough to predict or advise him in his life's most thought-provoking questions. If this was St Nick his red owl telling yes or no he would readily believe him, but Romeo?....

.... he had to snicker when Vi murmured the Shakespearean line to him "Make you kinda wonder if we should or should not believe him when he answers heart-related questions...."

He collected the plastic letters and the bird feed from their places and waited his turn. He wasnt even sure what to ask the Augurey that wouldnt result with him making fun of whatever it ended up choosing. Also what if he piled up the birdfeed on whatever answer he preferred to hear?.....

.... Which is what he did when it was his turn to ask Romeo a question. The YES pile had more feed and the Gryffindor Ace had the most perfect question to ask the sorry looking bird. He winked at Vi before strutting his most Shakespearean type pose, arms held out as if he was about to launch into a soliloquy and asked "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

It is a legit question after all....

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Steelsheen DMT & DIMC Antipodean Opaleye Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Geekdom of Nerdtopia Posts: 9,944 Hogwarts RPG Name: Tenacius "Ace" Salander Graduated x12 x12	bit of catch up + main activity post 1 Ability is nothing without Opportunity \| \| Creativity is Intelligence having FUN Text Cut: Prof Vance Quote: Originally Posted by Nordic Witch SPOILER!!: Student Replies Her question sparked raised hands and Olivia was first to share her thoughts. Where the lioness was going with the metaphorical storm Laurel wasn't entirely sure but the other things she said were valid. Nodding kindly she said. "Birds are very receptive to all changes in the weather and danger like you said Olivia so if you for example walk in a forest and all the chattering birds go super quiet then you can expect looming danger or even an upcoming storm ahead in your immediate future." It paid to be observant of birds and all creatures really. Zoryn spoke next and Laurel turned her head to the other lioness with a smile even though she felt that the girl hadn't exactly put much thought into her answer. "Roosters sing every morning yes Zoryn but you shouldn't see it as an annoyance but rather as a free alarm clock that you don't have to set. Very useful if you think about it." No need to worry about batteries or if the spell had depleted its energy a rooster always cried at the dawn of a new day. Dahlia was next and she provided a thought worthy question that deserved a response. Letting her eyes rest on the young badger Laurel said with a beam. "Interesting that you brought that up Dahlia. Birds do have their own language of communication and they use their cries to call out and warn the rest of their flock when a predator is near so that they can get way quickly. If humans could understand and speak the language of birds then yes the cries might help us too except that birds and humans don't share many common predators." Emmeline followed after Dahlia bringing up the song of the pheonix. Smiling over at the lioness she nodded "Yes the pheonix song fits Emmeline. The people a pheonix chooses to sing for is given increasing strength, courage, hope and love like how the late great headmasterDumbledore's pheonix; Fawkes did for Harry Potter in his duel against Voldermort back in the day." Many years had passed since. Little Maddie Kemp surprised Laurel by literally taking her up on her words by dashing forwards to say hello to the four augureys in their stall. Slightly distracted by the girls action Laurel heard only some parts of her answer which she responded to with a kind look in the girl's direction. "You right Maddie birds are similar to humans in the respect that they can cry for different reasons. The pheonix tears for example has healing properties, the cry of a rooster can wake someone up, or like our augureys do foretell rain. The cry's meaning changes with circumstance just like for us humans." Turning her gaze to Vivian she nodded happily "Yes definitely Vivian if the birds sees the person or other creature that enters their territory as a threat they need to protect themselves from their cries will both mean to back off and as a warning to the rest of their flock." Birds were very flock orientated and they defended that. Letting her eyes dart over the student faces Laurel came to stop on Hattie as the girl offered up her question to the mix. Beaming she nodded in response. "Yes Hattie, owls or any species of birds can use their cries to let others of their species know that they are there especially if they want to find a mate for instance." To just bring up one example. Gaze shifting to Shay she responded with a kind smile pursing her lips. "Yes Shay the birds flight patterns can foretell general weather and temperature changes that humans aren't as nature attuned to as humans are like storms, earthquackes, rain and danger like predators and so on." Laurel turned to Rhea last who had waited the longest to share her thoughts on the subject. Beaming at the eagle she said "Yes that's true Rhea all bird mothers communicate with their babies with certain individual calls and they would sense if they had an unwanted cuckoo in tthe nest. And canaries have been known to be used by mine workers as danger alarms one might call them since they stop singing if danger is close." Rhea was the last to offer up an answer and since none of the other students seemed eager to contribute more to discussion she felt it time to move on. Leaning a hand into the augurey's stall she let Julia hop on to her arm before she turned to face and speak to the students as she stroked the augurey over the feather. "Now then let's move on to our main practical portion since I think you've all by now have gotten some idea of what Ornithomancy is and I think you are more than ready to do some readings. What you'll need for this Ornithomancy reading is the help of an augurey, bird feed, plastic alphabet letters and a thought up yes/no question." Here Laurel paused to with a few flicks of her wand make the needed materials appear on the floor in front of her feet and to allow the information to sink in. The alphabet letters were now visible in an open chest and dead flies, fairies and insects were lying in several baskets that gave off heavy smells. With the augurey still sitting on her arm laurel gestured for the students to come closer. "To perform the reading you need to form the words yes and no with the plastic letters on the ground and then put generous amounts of bird feed over the letters. When you've done that you need to think up a good yes or no question for tomorrow that you want the answer to then you voice it out loud mine would be 'Will I get a letter with tomorrow mornings post owls from Imogen Greyvson' then you have to release the augurey and watch which pile of bird feeding it goes for first because that will give you the answer to your question. You might need to coax the augurey into action, but they should be hungry since Prof Wayland hasn't fed them yet today." As she talked the letters formed themselves into words at her feet and flies and insects and fairys landed on top of the words and the augurey known as Julia flew down from Professor Vances arm and began to peck with intensity at the feeding over the no word. A flash of disappointment crossed over Prof Vance's face as she said "How unfortunate maybe I'll hear back another day. Anway hop to it everyone Julia, Artreyu, Susie and Romeo are here to aid you with your readings. You've got 45 minutes to get your readings done!" OOC: Main activity time! You've got until Wednesday September 20th at around 7pm to complete the activity before i wrap up the lesson. Each house has their own augurey at their disposal that the students of that house would take turns with. Artreyu - Hufflepuff Julia- Ravenclaw Romeo - Gryffindor Susie- Slytherin As Laurel explained above you need to perform these steps to be able get full activity credit for the ornithomancy reading in as many or as few posts as you want. 1. Fetch bird generous amounts of birds feeding and the plastic letters 2. Use the plastic letters to form the words YES and NO on the ground 3. Pile bird feeding over the formed words 4. Think up a good Yes/No question that your student wants the answer to and then say it out loud. 5. Release the 'house' augurey and if needed coax it into eating the food available and interpret what that means for your students asked question. Have fun with this! Be creative! If you have any questions then don't hestiate to vm/pm or ask me in the lesson thread.. Hmm so can bird be used other than the Wizarding World's most underpaid meteorologist? His experience earlier was a solid clue that they can have other uses, but just as he was about to speak up, the Slytherin Prefect verbalized his thoughts. Mmhm yes that, Mama Nature's security alarm system yo. And now they have to deal with Augureys. Listen he can believe in Ornithomancy just fine, but he found in a bit hard to believe that a bird who is practically a stranger to him knows him well enough to predict or advise him in his life's most thought-provoking questions. If this was St Nick his red owl telling yes or no he would readily believe him, but Romeo?.... .... he had to snicker when Vi murmured the Shakespearean line to him "Make you kinda wonder if we should or should not believe him when he answers heart-related questions...." He collected the plastic letters and the bird feed from their places and waited his turn. He wasnt even sure what to ask the Augurey that wouldnt result with him making fun of whatever it ended up choosing. Also what if he piled up the birdfeed on whatever answer he preferred to hear?..... .... Which is what he did when it was his turn to ask Romeo a question. The YES pile had more feed and the Gryffindor Ace had the most perfect question to ask the sorry looking bird. He winked at Vi before strutting his most Shakespearean type pose, arms held out as if he was about to launch into a soliloquy and asked "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" It is a legit question after all.... __________________ ++Tenacius ++🐦++ Salander++🐦++ Deo ++🐦++ Vickers ++🐦++ Huxley ++🐦+ Aquila++ Yeah thats what crazy is, when its broken you say theres nothing to fix++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++And you pray that everything will be okay, while you're making all the same mistakes