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Originally Posted by nicole black  His name would remind the professor of the Charms professor because it was in fact, the same name. Fuller-thompson for his grandfathers. Sometimes he liked to brag that he was Hogwarts royalty, but when professors heard his grandfathers were the greatest Charms professor and CoMC professor ever they started expecting more from him.
he wasn’t a nerd.
and he didn’t like the idea of ben f expected to be one either.
“no, it’s how’s it hanging, professor. not how are you hanging.” Grinning big, the second year could not wait to relate this story to everyone and anyone that would listen. Professor Holden had said how are you hanging.
Biting his lip, Ruari tried not to laugh aloud and instead focused on the crossword- which he had finished up- and tried to picture something wildly unfunny.
but not sad either.
or anything that would make him angry.
or anything that would make him hungry because dinner was so far away.
calming. lakes were calming. swimming pools. rivers. waterfall-
and now he needed the loo.
bugger it all.
Ruari wriggled a bit in his seat, crossing one leg casually over the other. He could hold it. At least until Holden was done with his greetings. he could totally hold it.
No reason to interrupt and make it all weird.
He was thinking about chocolate. He was thinking about Hogwarts. He was thinking about laundry- no, not laundry-
Finally the class was fully present and Ruari could not wait a second longer, as soon as the first question was asked, he raised up his hand and said “Professor, can I be excused? Er. it’s important. yknow?” It was very important. extremely important. IMPORTANT. not waiting for approval, Ruari rushed to the door and let himself out but not before adding “Is about Inter school relations? is it about the first wizards war? Hogwarts and Ilvermorny are British and American and A lot of the first war’s biggest moments happened in england and america.” OKAY OKAY, HE WAS REALLY GONE NOW. “BE RIGHT BACK.” he shouted before zooming to the nearest bathroom. Merlin....
He knew he butchered that. Simon would certainly be hearing about what he said for months… He internally cringed and then the boy was asking to be excused. Mr. Fuller-Thompson rushed to the door as if he was about to lose his cookies. The answer he provided were all on the right track. He just stood there for a moment, perplexed by what happened. “Uh.. Close… Yes, you may go…” He turned to the rest of the students and sighed. Before calling on someone else, he reminded his class. “Please make sure you use the restroom before coming into class. Thank you.” And with that, he continued the lesson. SPOILER!!: Schools, Founders, Traits Quote:
Originally Posted by cindajean Salem-Rain just finished her word search when a bell rang. Then raised her hand to answer the question. "I think it is about schools of witchcraft and wizardry." Quote:
Originally Posted by Emzily She was so distracted today that it felt like a second before the class was starting. Either that or she had taken way longer than intended to complete the simple crossword.
Remy raised her hand because the answer was pretty obvious - or it could be a range of things. "It could possibly be about the differences between houses and their founders..." Just to give a different answer to the eager first year. Remy was always keen to learn more about Gryffindor, in particular. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie He was already looking up when Ivy walked in and he offered he a little smile, though she may have missed it with all the hustle and bustle going on in the classroom...especially in the front of the room with the portraits. Cooper was trying not to give all that all that much attention since portraits tended to just regurgitate what they overheard and were rather unreliable narrators in his opinion. Also most likely one of the sources of the Hogwarts gossip mill he assumed, which was not something he was all that fond of.
His attention was easily drawn to Celyn when she entered and he shifted a bit of his parchment around and pushed one towards her so it settled on the tablespace between the two of them. Her attention on the vines, he gave her a bit of a nudge with his elbow to get her attention back this way. "I added to it," he murmured, his head nodding to their 'to-do' list. Below his additions of 'have tea with Helena of Ravenclaw' and 'brave a bag of Pepper Imps together' was hers of swimming with the merpeople in the Black Lake and a newer addition of attempting underwater photography in the Black Lake. He had also added holding a grindylow and shaking all eight tentacles with Bartholomew Henry.
He would just leave that for her to glance at when she could...since Professor Holden was beginning class. The question was straightforward enough, and the seventh year found himself glancing down at the wordsearch in front of him and then the covered portraits behind the professor. Well, if all of these were meant to be connected...then it begged the conclusion that a couple of the bickering portraits were those of the Hogwarts founders.
"I'd like to combine Miss Raines and Miss Gaeltheos' answers," he said once it was his turn to speak. "Wizarding schools and their founders, seeing as each founder of the the two schools with expanded representation in the word search...Hogwarts and Ilvermorny...were also the pioneers of the four house system in each school." Though their word search lacked Helga Hufflepuff representation and had doubled up on Ravenclaw.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty Color Dia unimpressed. The word search seemed pretty heavily biased towards Hogwarts and that American school and Durmstrang only got one lousy mention?! She knew her former school was very secretive when it came to details, but dang! "Well, it's very obviously about magical schools.....but there are more than just Hogwarts and Illver-how the heck do you even pronounce that one anyway?" She wasn't trying to be snarky or mean. She was just putting the information out there. But, yeah, this class was definitely something to do with magic schools.
Also, were those the portraits of the Hogwarts founders under those curtains? Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady of Light Valentina took a lot more time to complete the puzzle than necessary - she was also feeling a little annoyed that the professor started the class with a crossword in the first place but ANYWAY. The fifth year started to doodle as the professor posed the first question. Well.. it’s obvious, isn’t it?
“Like everyone said, it’s going to be about all the magical schools.” She was actually keen to learn more about the other wizarding schools. Quote:
Originally Posted by Nordic Witch "McLeod," Rosa greeted back with a bright smile and a sideways glance to the snake girl that took up the desk beside her. The word search that Aria got started on and Rosa had just completed hinted at the lesson's topic. Naturally Professor Holden of course asked what topic theories they had gathered from the word search.
When it was her turn Rosa raised her hand and answered in a slow, but clear voice. "I think the lesson will be about Hogwarts and Ilvermorny like many of my peers have said before me. I also think we are going to look at both schools to see differences and similarities perhaps between both houses and their founders." It was going to be interesting to learn more about their american counterpart. Ilvermorney students lived in a castle too, similar to Hogwarts right? Quote:
Originally Posted by love-for-HP Well, she had completely finished the puzzle, but from what she could deduce from what she did had finished it seemed like things were going in the direction of wizarding schools.
"Wizarding schools, and their houses, I think anyway" Maxine said kind of indicating that her puzzle wasn't completely finished, hopefully that didn't cost her any points, she did try. "Are there portraits of the founders under there?" Maxine asked motioning toward the covered pictures. Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 There.
Aria struck out the final word on the list. The crossword had been completed in no time. It had been a while since she had done one of these and she quite forgot how soothing they could be. Thank you, Professor Eye Candy! Since she was done now, Aria sat up straight, ensuring her posture was proper. It did no one any good to slouch.
Ms. McLeod raised a hand, her pencil still held in it. “Today’s lesson may have to do with the Founding of Hogwarts and Ilvermorny. Perhaps we’ll even compare and contrast the traits of the Houses for each School.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Delilah had just found the last word she'd been looking for, which oddly enough was Hogwarts, when the sound of a bell ringing grabbed her attention. The first year put away her quill and diverted all her attention to the front of the room. Which, by the way, had been kind of hard to ignore seeing as there was such a big commotion going on up there.
Delilah raised her hand, even though everybody else had pretty much already said what she'd been thinking. "I agree with what everybody else is saying. I think it's about magical schools, the founders, and all the different houses," she said. She kind of figured there was more to it than just that, but there it was...her best guess. Quote:
Originally Posted by littledhampir Alfie was there, sitting next to his friend and dormmate Daniel. (Hi Daniel!) He had been studiously trying to find all the words in the word search but wasn't doing a very good job at it. He had only managed to find a few words before the lesson was starting and he looked up at Professor Holden. What did he think the lesson was about? Hmmm. Other people were giving some very good answers. A lot of the words in the word search had been about Hogwarts. The others had been about... Ilvermorny, that was it. That was one of the words. Alfie vaguely recognized it as the name of a wizarding school in America, but he knew very little about it. Some people were guessing that the lesson would be about magical schools, but the word search had been specifically about those two so there must be some reason for that. He raised his hand. "I think we might be looking at similarities and differences between Hogwarts and Il... Ilvermoney." Or whatever it was. Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising History of Magic wasn't too terrible of a subject, but Apollo was ninety percent sure that anyone with some degree of magical background should be able to test of this subject since it seemed far too redundant for his liking. Like, no offense, Professor Holden, but he'd been hearing wizarding stories since he was a toddler.
Taking one of the word-searches, the fourth year carefully circled each word, a couple minutes later setting his quill down. Easy-peasy, really. See ... he really ought to talk to the headmaster about testing out of this subject and taking something more useful. Like a double flying.
Oh, what was the lesson going to be on? "Chocolate frogs, Professor. Well, more specifically the cards within the chocolate frogs. Cause well, a lot of the words were actually names of important wizards who have a card. Speaking of which, anyone have and Isolt Sayre card? I've been looking for ages. I'll trade." Okay, so maybe his peers were right in the lesson being about houses and schools, but that answer was said already and why not suggest something different. Quote:
Originally Posted by itsjustjesse
Lily had almost gotten there she had found ALL of the words save for one and that was it. She had lost her motivation and had given up. Where were the foxes – gone. They had gone back into the den and it had collapsed all over them – there were no more foxes to give.
So there was sitting there waiting for class to really begin when it did. When the Professor called them history detectives. Please, that was sooooo lame – right? It was lame. Still she wasn’t going to say that outloud it was rude.
And no, she hadn’t really enjoyed the questions. Raising her hand she just waited. Her arm HURT from waiting. ”I think that Apollo kid is right, we’re going to cover Isolt Sawyer ... who i think was related to the Gaunt family and therefore likely a decedent of Salazar Slytherin.” what? a girl liked to read.
Simon listened to the students who suggested that the lesson would be about Wizarding schools. He nodded to those who suggested that and smiled at both Miss Gaeltheos and Mr Branxton’s answers. “Indeed they are. Excellent observation.”
Ah yes, he knew someone was going to mention the fact that not all Wizarding schools were represented. He chuckled at her response. Her phrasing was perhaps not the greatest but Simon assumed she didn’t mean it to come off that way. “Absolutely there are indeed more schools than just Ilvermorny and Hogwarts but one could not fit all of them simply into one of the word searches, Miss Wolff. Perhaps I’ll ask for your help next time with that task,” smiled Simon. “That being said, that shouldn’t stop you from providing answers about the other schools. You pronounce the school like this: Ill – ver – morn – ee.”
He continued listening to more answers and even smiled at Miss Bixby hit the mark on the identity of the portraits behind him. “Excellent.” He nodded again to a few more students and their answers. Yes. Yes. All on track…. Apollo’s answer gave him pause. Now that would have been a great activity to do. Chocolate frog cards. “That’s certainly a creative answer that I wasn’t anticipating. Great point. Let’s save the chocolate frog trading for after the lesson, shall we Mr. Adara-Stark?” Simon appreciated the boy’s creativity nonetheless.
Simon nodded at Miss Donovan’s theory. Yes… Her mind was heading the right to the next question about facts. “An excellent fact to lead us into further brainstorming… Thank you, Miss Donovan.” SPOILER!!: The Quiet Ones Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelliephone Ivy got a nod in greeting when she slid into the seat next to him, and he did attempt a small half smile though he wasn't entirely sure on it's level of success. Turning back to his crossword, he was able to locate the word Rowena as well before time was up and the lesson was officially starting. He could hear Holden ask what they thought they would be studying now, and Evan scrutinized the list for a moment.
There were the Ilvermorny houses, the Hogwarts houses, founders names. Magical schools could be a possibility, but then why only have two included? What was the difference between Hogwarts and Ilvermorny vs Beauxbatons and all the others? He was drawing a blank, so instead of opting to provide any type of answer he chose to continue to work on the puzzle provided.
Was that Slytherin he spotted? Quote:
Originally Posted by kayquilz Stevie was here! V saw him as soon as he entered because there was no way in Circe’s Hell that she was doing more work than she needed to, and if this word-search wasn’t being graded, she wasn’t doing it!!! She waved at her friend and gave him a nod.
She didn’t, in fact, want to copy Remy’s, either, because that was also WORK. So V watched allllll the interesting interactions until Professor Holden officially started the lesson. How would she know? Was there a reason she should know? Glancing down at Remy’s word-search, she realized why everyone ELSE seemed to know. It was all about magical schools. “You’re smart,” she whispered as she nudged Remy’s shoulder. There was a reason she, Lisa, Remy, Serena, and Ollie had all formed a study group….because they were all smarter than V, and she greaaaaatly needed their help.
UGH.
She prepared herself mentally for a BORING lesson. SCHOOL was boring, so learning about schools would be just that - BORING. That seventh year [Cooper] who used a lot of big words made V’s eyes widen because what in Merlin’s name was he talking about? Her eyes flickered to the wall for a clock - maybe, if there was one - because was it too early in the lesson to ask to the loo? She needed a walk already. Focus was hard ALREADY.
DARN. That second year [Ruari] beat her to asking to use the bathroom, and so now she had to wait because TWO people asking to use the bathroom would be too much -___-
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Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi He became aware of Alfie's presence as he sat next to him. Giving the Slytherin a quick nod of his head before he returned to the puzzle before him. He had completely missed V's wave though. Or had that been on purpose? Who knows.
Daniel turned away from the puzzle after solving it and looked toward the front of the class, where the portraits behind the curtains were. He had to agree with the other students that today's topic would almost certainly be about the Houses of the magical schools.
He didn't say anything, instead he leaned his cheek in the palm of his hand while he picked up a pen. He twirled it between his fingers, and only dropped it twice on the desk. Which was an improvement if he had to say so himself. He didn't see the point in repeating answers that were already given by some of the other students nor did he feel like adding to someone. Quote:
Originally Posted by iBeJenn Maya smiled at Cooper when he took a seat by her and Ash. She wasn't too familiar with the 7th year but what she did know was that he was rather good looking and talented. But this was class and not time to stare at attractive classmates. She worked diligently on her puzzle, not that it took too long for her to complete it. Once she did, her eyes wandered over to the door and caught Evan's arrival. She frowned slightly at the sight of him. He looked... off. And she had noticed that he had been absent from more than one class.
But he hadn't said anything to her?
She bit on her lower lip, wondering if it was worth bringing up but more students had entered and before she knew it the bell had rung, indicating that class was now in session. How extremely muggle.
At Professor Holden's first question, it seemed as though everyone had an answer. A bit distracted as she kept looking back over at her brother, she drew a blank. Merlin, he looked awful. And so she kept quiet, opting to take note of what everyone else said while glancing back. A couple of the students were silent but Simon knew that it was most likely because they didn’t want to repeat what their peers had said. Both Nam students were quiet… which he found odd. SPOILER!!: Of Pop Quizzes, Theories, and Infatuated Hufflepuffs Quote:
Originally Posted by Weasley174 Summer was still thinking about how cool the Professor was as she struggled with her puzzle, she was only halfway through it when he said time and she smiled, now that was awesome at least she got half done right. She put down her quill and turn her full attention to him.
She then heard what he ask and her heart sunk a little, she raised her hand. "Professor, are we doing quizes based on the History of Magic, because if we are can I ask the audience at some stage, I'm hopeless with quizzes." Summer sighed, seriously she got nervous and very fidgetty. Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Niffler? That didn't make sense at all. "Squid," Milo said to Mr Holden. No further explanation was forthcoming. The voices from the covered easels were filling the space plenty, and the world was becoming misaligned, so his long-gone shoes were bumped far down the list of priorities.
The more the room filled up, the twitchier he got, no matter how far he let his gaze and attention wander. He rolled his knuckles as though moving an invisible coin, and blinked hard. Saw the wave from Kin of Mercer, blinked again, and did not wave back. Nor to the individual who sat beside him, nor to the moose who took the seat behind.
The moose who might appreciate the discovery that Milo's feet did not smell, at least not in the way a foot might smell after being recently released from shoe prison and kept on sock parole. It was an accidental benefit of forgoing shoes, and the trade off for having filthy socks, being that the ground itself was always so filthy.
Mr Holden's voice drew Milo back, though only partway. Milo was not a history detective. Nor a lady. Nor a gent. It was as good an excuse as any to stop listening, to kneel-shuffle around on his chair and get a good look at the others in the room - though looking away as quickly as anyone looked back at him. One word had pierced the veil.
"I have a theory," Milo stated, eyes landing on the one who kept dropping his pen (Daniel). He watched it drop a second time, kept his eyes riveted to it, and abandoned whatever follow-up remark he had been about to make, had he actually been about to make one. With his own pen, he tapped his desk. Tap tap tap... Tap... Tap...tap...tap... Tap tap...tap...TAP. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Professor Holden was a cool guy, it wasn't his fault that he got stuck teaching the worst class. In fact, Jasper felt bad for the dude. He must've lost a bet because that was the only explanation. So when it came to lessons, Jas always tried to pay attention for as long as he could.
And unfortunately ... that never ended up being all that long anyway. Today it happened to last a good five seconds before he saw the parchment on his desk. And rather than work on the word search, Jasper began folding a paper airplane. As one does. When he was looking around the room for someone to fly it over to, his eyes landed on the back of Valentina's head.
And that's where they stayed for the next five minutes. She had a nice head. So symmetrical.
So when it was time to answer the first question, Jasper Amir Botros was, officially, checked out. And checking someone out too, for that matter.
"Whatever Val said, sounds good to me, Prof," he chimed in with a charming smile, leaning back in his desk.
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Originally Posted by Cassirin Mercer was still scribbling away at his word search, looking for words that weren't actually given as clues. He hoped to find his name. Or someone in his family. That always happened when he and his granddad did puzzles together. Mercer or Doyle always showed up as a clue. Or maybe granddad did that on purpose?
He figured everyone else had the right idea, anyway, so he kept his head down and kept scribbling away until Milo spoke up. "HEY. MILO HAS A THEORY." Mercer was the best hypeman in the world, fyi. Simon chuckled at Miss Summers answer before waving his hand. “Do not fret… No quiz yet but there will be questions,” he explained before turning to listen to barefoot Milo who had lost his shoes to the squid. “What’s the theory, Mr. Evans? Pray. Do tell.” He looked the younger Mr. Branxton - the hype man of Mr. Evans over there and then back to Evans to hear the story. Well? The Professor was waiting.
And then Mr. Botros said that he agreed with Miss Nichols. “About what exactly, Mr. Botros?” he asked with a raised eyebrow. Did the boy agree because he knew what they were talking about or because Miss Nichols was just very pretty and the young Hufflepuff was infatuated with the Gryffindor? “Perhaps Mr. Botros, you could write me an essay on Miss Nichols’ point.” SPOILER!!: Mr. Lockwood Quote:
Originally Posted by Aiden Lockwood
It was just then that the door would open, and a very little Hufflepuff would poke his head into the room. "E-xcuse me...? Is this History of Magic...?"
The small boy wandered in, hugging his ever-present teddy bear Wally to his chest. YES Aiden had brought his teddy to class. Of COURSE he had, where else would he be?
Aiden stood in the doorway, looking up nervously towards the Professor. He was a first year and he'd been just totally lost. He THOUGHT this was the right place now. But when he saw everybody in their chairs he realized that maybe he was late. He wasn't supposed to be late.
Aiden gulped. He turned his head. Then he was distracted staring at the other children. He'd never seen so many kids in one class before. Being taught at home was a whole lot different.
Then he looked back at the professor nervously.
"That’s it. Today’s - ” he stopped as a voice interrupted his lecture. Simon turned his gaze to find a young and very, very late student to the lesson. He eyed the boy, noting that he was holding a teddy bear. The boy reminded him of his own sons and so the Professor was halted. He rarely took away points but had done so in the past for students being late. “Mr. Lockwood. Thank you for joining us today. Please take a seat. Being late will result in you losing five house points. Please do not try to be late again.” He waited for the boy to sit down before continuing on. Merlin… That was hard. He always hated doing that but being late did result in consequences no matter the age you were. He cleared his throat before continuing. “Today’s lesson is focused on Wizarding Schools and their Founders,” he paused. There was SO MUCH to cover with the history of all the schools.. So much content there!!! And not enough time!! He could spend multiple lessons on this topic but they'd have to keep surface level for the most part so he'd rely on the students' knowledge on this one. Simon turned his back to the class and then tapped his wand on the board. Several schools appeared on the board: Hogwarts (naturally), Durmstrang, Ilvermorny, Beauxbatons, Castelobruxo, Mahoutokoro.
Then he turned around and continued. “Miss Bixby, excellent detective skills. I do have some founders' portraits behind me and you will get to ask them some questions later in the lesson but first I have one more question." He paused, waiting for the students' attention before continuing. "I'm interested to hear what you know about the Wizarding Schools and their Founders. Miss Donovan kicked off the topic with her own fact so let's continue the discussion." He paused again. "Please share a fact about one of the schools or a fact about one of the school’s founders listed on the chalkboard. ”
OOC: Alright folks! Second question is up and this one is broad! Please share some facts about the schools on the chalkboard (Hogwarts, Durmstrang, Ilvermorny, Beauxbatons, Castelobruxo, Mahoutokoro) and their founders. I’d recommend that everyone stick to one or two facts to share with the class. Feel free to look around the SSRPG archives for some fun facts too ... you may find some interesting facts there too ! 
You have 1 day to answer question one before I move on the lesson
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