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|  Greetings and Question 1 Gryffindor for life Notorious Niffler
SPOILER!!: Individual Greetings SPOILER!!: Reese
Mr. Prichard was quite lucky that Celestia didn’t follow her natural inclination, which would be to BANG the door shut several minutes early and start the lesson before the bell rang. She had grown accustomed to waiting for the bell by now, however, so she bestowed a warm smile on the first year -- that quickly faded at his words. ”Good morning, Mr. Prichard. I certainly do not need any help, thank you. You’ve all done quite, erm, fairly well for something handed in so early in the term,” Celestia lied with a perfectly straight face. She was a bit disappointed by the class’s overall performance, actually, but she was certainly not going to tell a student that -- and especially not a first year. Celestia wasn’t sure that she was comfortable with Mr. Prichard’s assumptions about his classmates, either, but she was willing to overlook it for now. SPOILER!!: Abra
Celestia smiled brightly as the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain entered the room!
She was quite looking forward to the coming season, and always shamelessly demonstrated her support for her old House’s team. She never gave homework on weeks when Gryffindor had a Quidditch match to play in, for example -- but she didn’t bother giving other teams the same consideration. ”Good morning, Mr. Botros,” she replied cheerily. ”I do hope that we’re putting together a good team this year, yes?” She was sure that Mr. Botros would do an excellent job, and was a little disconcerted by his sudden shoulder slumping. Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion for a moment before her gaze dipped to the essay in front of her with its many red markings probably visible as students walked past. She gave the boy a reassuring smile and added, ”Not to worry. You all did fairly well on these.” Not that she had graded Mr. Botros’s assignment yet, but there was no reason to upset him further. She had a good idea of how the class in general had done on this particular assignment, and while she wasn’t pleased, she planned to rectify some of the main errors in today’s lesson. Once most of the class was seated and the bell had sounded throughout the castle, Celestia used her wand to shut the door as usual. However, she was careful to close the door quietly -- which was not usual for her, as she liked to start lessons off with literal bangs. The reason for this improved noise level was simple: Celestia was not expending her normal amount of effort on the simple spell, because she positively dreaded how this lesson must begin. She couldn’t see a good way to avoid the discussion if the rest of the lesson was to proceed smoothly, so she heaved a quiet sigh and turned around to face the class. If she was being perfectly honest with herself, this clarification needed to be made based on some of the analyses she’d read in the students’ essays that she’d been marking before the start of class. It was obvious that this fairly basic concept was still murky for some students; that was to be expected from first years, of course, but perhaps she had never explained this concept well enough for some of the older students… Celestia sighed again and shifted the pile of parchment on her desk until an unmarked essay was on the top of the pile -- in case one of the students decided to come up to her desk for whatever reason.
”Good morning, class, Celestia began with an attempt at her usual warm smile. ”Before we get into the meat of today’s lecture, I would like to quickly discuss a simple but fundamental distinction in your study of magic. Who can tell me one of the differences between a charm and a Transfiguration spell? Is there any overlap? For our older students, what has been the most useful spell you have learned in your Transfiguration classes to date?”
Yes, Celestia knew that these questions were desperately dull. This discussion was primarily the result of teaching students in all years at the same time, but that aspect of life was as unavoidable as the coming discussion. It was still the beginning of the year, and her younger students needed to understand this distinction for the lesson to move forward without protests. She was hoping for some insight from her older students to liven the beginning of the day up, if she was being honest. OOC: Thanks so much for coming! I know these are pretty easy questions, but Celestia is trying to make a point here, so please bear with us. Feel free to have your student answer all three questions (if they’re above 1st year), or only one or two of them. You have 24 hours to get your answers in. We’ll be moving on to the mini activity at 12 AM CDT on May 15. |