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SPOILER!!: Natalie & librarian man Quote:
Originally Posted by sarahlooo  Natalie was STILL staring at Derf with her big blues, STILL concerned for his well-being when he seemed to come out of his trance-like state, unaware that he was acting odd. Well, that part was normally, really. Someone else had noticed it too, though, but Natalie didn't think calling it out loud in class was the best idea so Natalie shot the girl a LOOK.
"No, there's nothing on your face, and yes, I can see her too" she whispered, but that gIRL had the teacher involved now AND Natalie was getting in trouble for not paying attention but she didn't CARE because she was looking after her friend, so EXCUSE HER for not answering your question, professor. Despite her will, Natalie felt some heat rise to her cheeks from the spotlight they were under.
"Sorry professor, but I'm afraid I don't have anything to add," she said with a sliiiiight hint of 'TUDE.
And then the class was moving on and going to their stations.
As for escorting him to the healer's wing... Natalie looked back up at Derf. "Do you want to go?" she whispered at him, squeezing his arm, not really specifying that they would go to the healer's wing because maybe he just needed some fresh air or a hand to hold or something and MAYBE she was insinuating that they should skip class... Maybe.
She did wish she had a photographic memory, though because she DID want to learn about these NebuLAE and all the information looked very interesting, but... Derf, at the moment, was more important. She could steal her brother's notes later. Quote:
Originally Posted by MunchyBubbles SPOILER!!: Replies!
Kalen smiled at Miss Reynolds as she spoke, “Indeed they are very beautiful.” He commented, he was about to tell her who she could pair up with but it seemed to sort itself out. So he didn’t mention that bit.
Kalen tried not to laugh as Mr.Dooley spoke. “Well you are mostly on the right track.” Sorta, ish? He got the Cloud part right at least?
Kalen couldn’t help but smile as he saw Mr. Carter whisper to his partner, yeah perhaps that answer hadn’t been the best, but he had answered so full points to the team.
Kalen nodded as Jessa spoke. “Some of them are indeed known as that.” He said with a nod. Thank for speaking up for your team.Miss Cambridge.
Kalen nodded as Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne spoke up, “Indeed they do, and yes several of them look like animals.” Sort of at least. But yes, mostly. He noticed the boys demeanor and he raised an eyebrow but stayed silent for the moment. The Hufflepuff had been through a lot back a few days ago in the Room of Requirement, Kalen was surprised he was in class, if he was honest. At least there were no angry eyes glaring in his direction so far, so.. Yay?
Kalen nodded as the Hufflepuff spoke. “Indeed they are Miss Fanelli.” He smiled at her words, she seemed excited, which was nice. He always appreciated enthusiasm.
Kalen noticed that Miss McKinley wasn’t paying attention and was instead looking at Derf. Kalen sighed softly and yet didn’t call her out just yet. He was watching those two though.
Kalen nodded as Miss Sparkes spoke. “Indeed they are very pretty.” He said with a smile as his attention was taken by Miss Swann.
Meh, he had been content to leave the situation alone, but now he actually had to face it. “Miss Swann, Thank you for letting me know, but I would appreciate it if you would pay attention to the lesson and the question I asked of all of you.”
He said as he looked at her and then at Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne and Miss McKinley. “If you need to go to the Healers wing, Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne you may go and Miss McKinley may escort you. If not I would appreciate if you paid attention, and Miss McKinley, I would like an answer to my question please.” Normally he would have let them get away with one answer per team, but since they weren’t paying attention, he wanted an answer from them as well.
“Thank you for your input to our discussion.” Kalen said kindly, he was right about them being far away at least?
Kalen noted Mr.Tamesis silence, but then Jessa had already answered, and since the boy seemed to be paying attention, Kalen merely nodded and moved on.
Well at least Miss Blaze was taking notes. Though she didn’t seem to have a partner yet.
But here came Mr. Forsfelle to swoop in and save the day for Miss Reynolds and Miss Blaze. He gave the boy a nod and smiled at his answer. “Indeed they were.” He said.
A simple answer, Kalen appreciated that. “Indeed Miss Paton, Thank you for your answer.”
Kalen noticed that Mr.Blaze seemed to be paying attention and he gave him a nod, since his partner had already answered for the team.
He noticed Derfael seeming to come back to himself a bit. Okayyy.. Could we pay attention now please? Kalen looked at the class and nodded after they had stopped giving their answers. “There were many good answers, thank you all for telling me what you knew about Nebulae.” He said with a smile as he moved to stand in front of his desk.
“Nebula, is Latin for the word cloud or fog. And Nebula are interstellar clouds of dust and gases, such as hydrogen and helium and it contains other ionized gases as well. They are often very large, several million light years across and they can be nurseries for new stars.” He said with a smile. “They are very beautiful, have many pretty colors and a few can be seen with the naked eye. The Orion Nebula for example can be seen as you look up to the constellation and notice that one of the stars in Orion’s sword looks fuzzy. That is the Orion Nebula.” He explained as he leaned back on his desk.
“Now way back when, Astronomers used to call any cloudy object they saw in the sky a Nebula, many galaxies were originally called a Nebula, Of course since then Scientists have narrowed down what Nebulae are. ” He paused for a moment, knowing he was hitting them with a lot of information and he still had several things to tell them.
“Now, there are many types of Nebulae, categories if you will. And some types have subcategories, but I’ll try to simplify it for you and give you the terms at least, as well as a simple explanation.”
Kalen moved to the board and started to write.
“We have H II regions, pronounced H 2, these are mostly Hydrogen based and are active star making regions.
Emission Nebulae, are made of ionized gasses and usually have a Star nearby, many of them appear red.
Dark Nebulae, which are clouds of dust so dense that they hide the light behind them.
Reflection Nebula which reflects the light of stars around them instead of creating their own.
Planetary, which have nothing to do with planets actually and are shells of gas that are emitted when stars die.
And finally,
Supernova remnants, which are created when a star dies in a massive explosion known as a supernova.”
Whew.. and now all what he had just said was written on the board for them to see and take notes if they wished.
“Now I know I just hit you all with a lot of information and there are a few more type of Nebula and some of the ones I mentioned are subtypes of others, but for this class, these are the ones I will be focusing on. If you want to know more, your textbook has a wealth of knowledge.”
Kalen moved back around to his desk and with a wave of his hand, the black cloths came off the desks that were around the room and revealed eight stations with moving pictures of what looked like a Nebula on each station. He was thankful he had found them.
“Now in your groups, I want you to go to at least four of the stations and see if you can figure out the name of the Nebula, if it is a Nebula, and what type of Nebula it is. Discuss with your groups what you think each Nebula is and write it down on your parchment.”
Kalen settled back on his desk. “Everyone up, and off to the stations. If you have any questions just let me know. I’ll be calling out to switch Stations in a little bit.” OOC: Hey all! I know that was a lot of information! Okay we are onto the main activity! Which is just going to a Station in your group, naming the Nebula and saying what kind of Nebula is it. I have provided the names of the Nebulas in the spoiler for your OOC information, IC it’s just a picture. We will be moving on with the rest of the lesson in about 96 hours or so, but I’ll be posting about once a day telling them to switch stations if they haven’t already. Please visit at least TWO stations! Thanks! If you have any questions please let me know.
Relief washed over the Hufflepuff's face when Natalie confirmed that he could see the woman too. "Thank Merlin," he said, slouching a little into his seat and FINALLY doing a bit of his signature hair ruffle. Both hands.
But the ruffling was short live as the librarian drew aaaaaaaaaall the attention EVER to himself. And Natalie. And the situation that wasn't really a situation. And then was trying to get her to respond to the question in that TONE that caused a little more unintentional spiraling to happen and the third year to tense up a little. He was about to warn Natalie just to say SOMETHING because the man could be a real banshee when provoked (the Room of Requirement had proven that) but words were slipping out of Natalie's mouth before he could stop her. And his eyes went a bit wide and then he was leaning over to whisper something just for her ears. "If he tries to put you in a Full Body-Bind Curse...I'll jump in front of you and take the hit." Seemed kinda mean that the librarian was poking at Natalie to answer when not EVERYONE else had too...and Derf had spoken for their group already and that seemed to be the trend so...
Derf was 10000000% prepared to leap in front of Natalie at the first sign of trouble.
But they were moving on to the activity now - after he shook his head at the mention of the hospital wing because nope...not keen on going there. At all.
Textbook open, Derf flipped to the index to find the information again for a more portable setting and, well, visuals. Though he was going to need to be incredibly dependent on Natalie for this part. "Did...you know that....this space telescope thingy that gives us these pictures...it can ONLY take pictures in black and white?" he asked timidly as he scanned over the page before getting out of his seat and slowly leading her over to station number 3.
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