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Originally Posted by Mugglemad  Victoria put her hand up "I think it is great professor, are we floating them?" "Thank you!" Ian beamed. "We won't be levitating them, no. Good guess, though." Quote:
Originally Posted by hermione9495 Lucy blushed a little realesing she had said the wrong time of day...again. What was with her lately? But she smiled and listened to the professor ask two questions about the decor. Lucy looked around observing it a little. She had no clue what she though the lesson was about but she raised her hand to answer the first question. "It reminds me of essay's." She said. Lucy decided to take a shot at the first question and spoke again. "Are we going to learn the sticking charm? Or perhaps how to levitate items?" She asked. "Oh dear, we can't have that, now can we?" Ashby never liked writing essays. In his days at Hogwarts, he really enjoyed the hands-on activities, which was one of the reasons he took up such an interest in Charms. "Nope, not the sticking charm either." Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermione_loves_Ron To be quite and perfectly honest, Issy had no idea. Her lips pursed in contemplation and brows fell down, furrowing together. Finally, after a moment, she reached her hand in the air.
"Honestly, Professor? I have no idea? For all we know, you're awfully into the abstract decorating style? Perhaps you've a fondness for quills and ink? Are you, by chance, a writer in your free time? A sketcher? Or..." Hmm... that was an idea. "Has it anything to do with the stickying charm that you must've used to hold them up?" "Yes, not really, no, no, and no. That's my final answer, Regis." Regis? Who the heck was that and where had that phrase come from? Ian made a mental note to ask Professor Dumont about that later, as he had a feeling it might have been muggle in origin. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomasina Riddle Paris raised her hand. "Are we working with invisible ink? And if we are you could be teaching us the revealing charm." she said not having a clue if she was right. With Professor Ashby you could get anything on any given day. "I think its very you by the way." she said answering his first question. "Bingo!" Ian squealed. He was a little saddened that he had apparently been so obvious to some of the students, but he shrugged it off, deciding that they were all just smart as a tack, thanks to his teachings. Quote:
Originally Posted by Sneakeh Cat Reese looked back up at the quills hanging above her head. She looked back at Professor Ashby when he started to speak. She raised her hand when the Professor asked the class two question. "First- I like the decoration. It's unique. Two- I think you've chosen quills and ink bottles, because, well, you need quills and ink to write notes, right? So, are you implying that we will be taking a lot of notes today?" "The amount of notes you'll be taking today is completely up to you, however, you will be writing things today, as it is part of the class assignment. Believe you me, though, it will be a fun activity, and not tedious at all." Quote:
Originally Posted by best deatheater Roland had to suppress a laugh at the sight of the old charms teacher falling off of his desk. He had respect for him but there was no chance of Roland not laughing at something like that.
As Professor Ashby was his professor he had respect for him but he knew Ashby wouldn't blow his top at someone finding this sort of thing amusing. Roland glanced up at the ink bottles on strings and levitating. Looking back at Professor Ashby Roland raised his hand and said "Well its a nice change for the classroom.Plus for the Hufflepuffs and us Slytherins the quills and ink will come in handy thanks to the flood....". He paused slightly as he realised what purpose these could have, "sir, is this a way to prevent people's possession's being damaged like ours was?". Ian ignored the bit about the flood. Flood? These students were crazy. There was no such thing happening. And besides? Who would think of floods when there was "STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE!" to be eaten.
Oops! Had he said that out loud? Well...he had been craving it. OH, the sweet sweet aroma seemed to be filling his nostrils at this very moment. Quote:
Originally Posted by Yaya Emiliano raised his hand. "Professor...the decoration you gave to this classroom is great, unique...surprising...And as for the second question, I could guess by the unlabeled ink bottles...we might be working with invisible ink, perhaps?" He answered, questioning himself as well. "Yup, yup!" Ian exclaimed, his mind still concentrated on the delectable dessert waiting for him in his office. Quote:
Originally Posted by nimbus1991 Lucas heard the Professor carefully. Ah! He's beginning with questions. He'd always known teacher's do that to get the attention of the pupil. So that they could blend in. Feel easy.
He really had no idea what they'd be doing with the inkbottles and the quills but he raised his hand. " Let's see...... free inks and quills for everyone." Lucas said smiling. " No seriously, I think the decoration's nice. Tough I seriously doubt that they're JUST decorations, sir." "Oh, you never know. I quite like the way the sun is glinting off the bottles, don't you? I think this would make a lovely decoration in any room!" Quote:
Originally Posted by moony-chaz Lyra smiled a bit, the professor seemed like nice person. Also very clumsy when she saw him falling off the desk, tyring not to laugh she tried to hear the question. "well, i would say that the decoration is eh....very fascinating ......" she said her eyes not blinking and looked at the quills and ink. And as for the second part. She had no idea. "Thank you for your input, young lady. I do think I'm going to keep it this way for a while." Quote:
Originally Posted by dingDong What did he think of it? Well he thought a lot of it. Cam raised his hand and let his imaginative miiind to take over. "Professahh, I honestly think it's an AWESOME decoration you put up here 'cause I find quills and ink bottles to be AWESOME. Yeah," he said and proceeded to answer the next question, "oh oh oh and we could possibly be erm..." He had no idea. "We could uuuummmm... write stuff! Like... stuff!" "Twelve thousand friendship points to you, m'boy, for being so enthusiastic about the decorations! Perhaps one day I will teach you my decorating ways, for I have long been perfecting my technique." Quote:
Originally Posted by dan arjay Daniel looked around and thought of one thing, Yes, it is very Ashby. The corky and weird one. He raised his hand and said, "Professor, the decoration reminds me of you, sir." he said and smiled at the direction of the Professor. "And as for the lesson, will we be learning the revealing charm? or perhaps the anti-cheat charm?" but the second one will not be thought because students will know how to counter it... he thought "Yes! We will be working with the revealing charm today. Or, one of them, at least, since there are many in existence." Quote:
Originally Posted by rubindo Aaron saw all his friends with him. Okay, it's time for charms. Don't screw up. Don't screw up. Aaron raised his hand. "Professor, I like it. It's like, all vintage, and cool. And could we be writing or learning about old charms?" Aaron did not know. He thought that they would be using simple charms, but perhaps they were learning theory first. "Hmm, you know, that's an interesting topic I'd like to delve into more one day. I'll have to do some research on ancient charms in my spare time, but thank you for bringing that up! I'll keep them in mind." Quote:
Originally Posted by tex Cy looked around the room in awe of all the quills and ink bottles. This Professor was INSANE, and Cy liked his style. In response to the mans question, the first year had some answers.
“I KNOW SAH’!” The young Aussie exclaimed, “I think the flying pens are ace.” He said, nodding. “An’ it’s pretty obvious that you have them floating around in case someone gets on yah’ bad side. You could pour some ink on em’ or stab em’ with a quill.”
The first years brown eyes eyed the quills expectantly, and he whipped out his wand in defense… just incase one tried to fly at him. CONSTANT VIGILENCE! "Childe, there will be no violence in this room. You may put your wand away and know that these quills shall do you no harm. As long as you treat them with respect, that is..." Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Upon hearing her name, Anna turned her attention from the newly decorated classroom to the professor. She smiled at him and then answered all that he'd addressed both her and the class with. "Hello, Professor Ashby. I'm terribly sorry for not greeting you. I was a bit distracted by the new decorations you've put up," she said, with a smile. "Oh, and thank you for the congratulations and for the compliment." Should she raise her hand to answer his questions for the class, though? Probably not, as she was already responding to his greeting. Did people in the midst of the conversation typically stop to raise their hands? Ahhh, well, who knew. She'd just raise her hand anyway.
"As for what I think of your decorations, they're lovely and unique. You could use a bit more pink in here...and quite possibly a mixture of purple, as well. Outside of that, I think you've done a lovely job of putting normal, everyday objects to use in your decorating," she commented, her hand in the air. "Maybe you've chosen quill and ink bottles, because there's a severe lack of those here at the school ever since that disastrous flood occurred. I know some Slytherins and Hufflepuffs who would be mighty glad to take them. Other than that, though, there's Anti-Cheating spells, Aparecium, Color-Changing charms, Refilling Charms, or spells to make ink appear, too." Ian listened intently and once the Head Girl had finished speaking, he immediately waved his wand around the room, filling it with splashes of clashing colors, like pinks and purples and oranges and browns and greys and blues and colors one could not even imagine even existed! "I think you're right," he added once the room was a messy rainbow of color splotches.
There was that word again. What had gotten into these students? Flood. HA. Professor Morgan must have done a lesson with the Giant Squid or something and they thought the lake was flooding the school.
MMmm....strawberry cheesecake. Quote:
Originally Posted by EquestrianGal88 Lettie calmly raised her hand, "I think having all these vials and quills floating around is rather fun. As for the lesson, are we going to be attempting to write with only the aid of our wands, or magical powers and concentration?" Perhaps they were going to learn how to write without using a set of hands...and having the quill do the work on it's own.... "Not quite, although that might be a fun lesson, wouldn't it? It would be just like learning how to write all over again!" Quote:
Originally Posted by She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! Diane raised her hand out of sheer interest. "Because we will be writing throughout the class, which means this is a theorical lesson. Or we are charming the quills and inks, perhaps quick-notes quill charming?"
She looked around at the decoration, having lowered her hand, "Quite interesting. I hope you are not planning to prank us showering us with ink. Black doesn't really suit me." "No, no, you needn't worry about getting ink on you. It wouldn't show even if the ink did spill..." Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 Chris looked around with wide eyes and raised his hand. "I think all this stuff is Awesome!" he said smiling. "Perhaps we will be maybe having them disappear and then reappear them later?" He said thoughtfully. "Close, but not quite, Chris." Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyNerd Lyra wanted to jump, clap, YAY her way through class as Professor Ashby was here! He was really here and she'd missed his crazy ways. The fun ways of course. She admired the things he did with the quills and ink bottles. "Either you are going to teach us another sticking charm or we are going to learn how to create Quick Quotes Quills!" Now that would just be awesome! Ian chuckled. He remembered all the fun he had had during the sticking charm lesson from last term, and was itching to run up and stick himself to the wall again. Too bad he didn't realize there wasn't glue on the walls this time... "No, I think we'll stay away from the sticking charms for a little while," Ian responded Quote:
Originally Posted by fredsgirl81293 Demetria raised her hand. "I like the decorations. They're a bit....different." she smiled. "Will we be learning how to bring them towards us, then send them back?" she asked. "Nope, not today!" Quote:
Originally Posted by Severus Snape! Raine raised her hand to answer. "I find your decorations rather intresting. If they are just there for decoration only I say it is very creative and I absolutley love it! Now, the quills on the walls would suggest that we are to practice a sticking charm today. But I think the opposite. I think you put the quills on the walls so that we can try and remove them. As to the quills and ink on our desks I'm not sure." She stopped there alowing a long silence while she thought. "But then, maybe the quills are on the walls with sticking charms because that might be todays theme, you could want to show us all the different things we can make objects, such as these quills do. We could very well be learning how to make the quils levitate or put some spell on it to make a quick-quotes quill. Yes, that would explain the ink." After she said this she stopped in ordder to let others speak their opinion. "You're quite ahead, aren't you? We won't be doing things like that until later in the year, but please always be prepared to use your expansive breadth of knowledge every day." Quote:
Originally Posted by Ama Choosing not to voice her thoughts about Ashby's choice of decoration out loud, Daphne tackled his latter question. Sticking Charms had been discussed and practiced, last term, weren't they? Daphne was pretty sure she recalled that class. She had made paper cranes with Celandine--and attached one to Kettleburn's backside. It was quite fun while it lasted. The ink bottles were unlabeled, which was probably done on purpose to create confusion. "Invisible ink," she repeated even though several of her classmates had already introduced the idea. "Or perhaps we're supposed to seek out the matching quill to the matching ink bottle? A specific quill will only work for a specific ink." Something tricky, possibly? The idea was far-fetched but at least she wasn't just becoming everyone's echo. "Just a thought." "Yes, we will be working with invisible ink today. And who do you take me for?" Ian asked, feigning offense. "Professor Kazimeriz? I am, by no means, as tough as he is. No, your lesson today is not nearly that difficult." Quote:
Originally Posted by iluvfob13 Fallon looked at Professor Ashby quizically. She thought about the two questions he asked. She raised her hand to answer. "I think it's rather...different Professor Ashby. And maybe we are going to do something to try and get them down." She knew she probably didn't sound to sure of herself. She was just taking a stab at the question. "That can be accomplished without magic," Ian said, reaching out and grabbing a quill from the air. Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeke Weasley "I think it's very interesting, Professor," Zeke said, raising his hand. "Maybe we're going to practice a summoning spell or something?" It seemed logical to him, but who really knew? "Have we not covered that yet?" Ian asked. He thought back on his time at Hogwarts and realized he hadn't! "Oh, we haven't! Well, we shall get to that sometime soon for those of you who don't know how." Quote:
Originally Posted by Monkey Princess "I am quite well Professor, thanks for asking. I'm enjoying my year immensely." William replied grinning as he sat straight ready for the lesson to begin.
Raising his hand he guessed, "Could we be learning the magical writing spell?" He asked, was there such a spell he wondered? He had read of something like that but wasn't exactly sure. "Excellent!" Ian bellowed. "However, no magical writing spell." Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash Love "Professor I like the floating idea. Ash called from her seat "And uh...are we learning about leavitating items and controlling them in mid-air? Ash asked hopefully "We will not be levitating today, no." Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermione345 Linda raised her hand and asked 'Are we going to learn how to make a paricular type of ink like the flavoured ink,invisible ink etc?' "No flavored ink, but yes! We will be working with invisible ink today, although we won't be making it." Quote:
Originally Posted by Lezleighd Satine listened to everyone else's ideas of what the ink and quills and rather random placement meant...they all were great ones and she couldn't come up with any like theirs, so she decided to take a chance, "Professor, are you going to teach us some special charms to help us with our personal interior decorating skills?" she said with a smile and hope the Professor would understand her humor and answer. Ian chuckled. This girl seemed to understand his humor, and he appreciated it. "Not during class, but if you'd like some tips later, you most certainly should come by my office!" Quote:
Originally Posted by cedricdiggory Cedric raised his hand,"Umm,Professor Ashby,I think that we were going to discussed and learn about the hovering charm,We'll make the quills hovered and inks too,I bet."He answered,Its really good to see their charms professor again. "Nope, no hovering charms." Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeness "It's pretty unusual," Varius admitted, "Maybe we're going to be learning some form of avante garde charm? "Ah, some different thinking!" Ian exclaimed, impressed by the boy's words. "Not today, I'm afraid." Quote:
Originally Posted by Hollister As Miles stared up at the ink pots above his head and raised an eyebrow. "I ... like it?" It was rather scary having big glass pots hanging above, just waiting to fall and giving you brain injury. "I wonder if we're going to write on the ceiling and walls?" He smiled, now THAT would be fun. "Or, we're going to learn a charm that summons them to us?" "No summoning, although writing on the walls and ceiling would be fun, wouldn't it? Let's save that for a later date, though." Quote:
Originally Posted by Spork! Clark rose his hand excitedly. "I think it's so that the quills are like bein levitated by you, and we have to keep them levitating or they poke us in the eye." He looked up, then immediatley put his head on his desk covered by his arms. "Um...and what ink would you be using, sir?" he asked after he sneezed four times in a row. "There is no need to worry, young man," Ian said in hopes of calming the boy down. "These quills won't be raining down on your heads." Quote:
Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd Miranda took her time to look around the classroom at the various ink bottles, wondering just what they were stuck to the walls.
Tilting her head to the side, Miranda stared at the ceiling with a concentrated frown until she finally decided to answer the professors question.
"Professor," she said with her hand raised, "is it possible that we might try to hoover the quills to go into the ink bottles and then try to write with the quills, still hovering?" "No, we won't be hovering things today." Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs_Molly_Weasley Becca muffled laughter the best she could at Clark's answer. He was funny- she had to admit. Having an idea herself, Becca rose her hand "Professor Ashby, I have a theory that you are going to ask us to levitate the ink and if we don't do it properly it will spill on us, furthering our motivation to do it right." "No, I'm not that devilish," Ian said, thinking back on the strawberry cheesecake. It was red...supposedly like the devil and OOOO. Devil's food cake! How that sounded SO delicious at the moment as well. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessica94ear Iris giggled at all of the ideas, they were so creative! So she raised her hand to give her opinion "Professor, I like them. They're different. In a good way" she said, smiling, "Are we going to be learning Levitating spells?" she asked seriously. "No levitation, ma'am." Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen Nancy's eyes still flickered back and forth between the ink bottles and Professor Ashby as she remained standing right there in the middle of the classroom, waiting for an explanation. This had to be somekind of game, right? There had to be a reason for those ink bottles and quills to be hanging in mid-air, right? There sure was a reasonable explanation. Another glance at Professor Ashby and Nancy wasn't so sure about this anymore. Or not... Maybe he had just done this for fun, because he had felt like it. With him you could never be sure.
The 15 year old refrained from rolling her eyes at the professor's answer but instead - not without a mumbled "Okay..." - turned around to take a seat at an empty desk. Things would be made clear soon enough. So, there was a reasonable explanation for the weird whereabouts of the quills and ink bottles.
Just as Nancy had leaned back in her seat after having placed her wand onto the desk Professor Ashby apparently decided to get up to start the lesson. Well, the "start the lesson"-part turned out to work out pretty well. The "get up"-part? Not so much. The 15 year old bit her lip hard to suppress the laughter that had been building up inside her upon watching the professor's attempts to get off his desk which somehow ended with him hitting the floor. He seemed to be okay, though, so no need to worry about that.
Well, Professor Ashby's first question was easily answered but the second one posed a bit of a problem for Nancy. Why had he chosen quills and ink bottles? Because they had been on sale? Probably not. "Uhm...well, I think it's, well, different. Your ink bottles and quills-decoration I mean. I sort of like it. It's unusual but in a good way. Sort of." Yeah, right. "Well, I think we maybe need to levitate them or something. And yes, write something with them on...uhm...parchment?" Well, duh. Whatever. "Writing, yes. Levitating, no. The levitation was merely for decoration." Quote:
Originally Posted by FoxFire Winnie blinked. "I think it's inspired, sir," she said quite seriously. "When people decorate they never think of putting things that aren't flat on the walls. It makes you think of perpendicular angles in so many different ways...It's art. Is it a sort of obstacle course? Or will we be experimenting with sticking charms? Do you think a cushy sofa would stay on the wall if you stuck it there?" "Art! Oh, you're too kind! I could never think of myself as an artist, but thank you." Ian blushed. And drooled, because he was thinking of so many different kinds of cakes by now. "I guess you could call it an obstacle course, although it was not intended to be. And oh yes, you can definitely stick a couch to the wall. Been there, done that." Quote:
Originally Posted by Paintbrush Natka thought about this one.
"Perhaps you want us to work on something individually and so the quills are charmed so we cannot copy off each other? or you want us to study charmed quills? or something to do with charmed ink changing colour, or moving across the parchment?" she wondered aloud, wondering if she was even anywhere near the truth. "Good thinking," Ashby said, looking at the girl. Quote:
Originally Posted by Deniiz Wow, charms. Another lesson Grace looked forward to. She lloovveedd the life in Hogwarts and this lesson seemed just like a magical lesson. Yeah, a potential awesome lesson.
The brand new Slytherin thought for a while as she didn't want to screw up at the first answer. "Decoration is rather... um... unique, we can say." Actually, too unique. "And I think we'll summon things and erm... maybe see the difficulty when it's sticked?..." she trailed off. No, that wasn't the answer, but she'd already said it. "Nope, none of that."
Ian returned to his teaching voice and addressed the class: "It seems as though the consensus of the class would be that I'm crazy! Well, I won't say you're all wrong. Anyway, today, as some of your fellow students pointed out, we will be working with invisible ink! We won't be going into the properties of the ink and what makes it invisible, but we will be working with making it appear. So, class, who can tell me what the incantation is to make invisible writing appear....and let's also discuss the root of the incantation." Ian always did enjoy root languages. Quote:
Originally Posted by Celandine Cela was pretty sure she'd figured it out, but she just sat there looking smug until something occurred to her. "Professor? How come we aren't learning charms that have to do with protecting us from the flooding? Helping us to... protect our things or to breath or to float or whatever? I can't really see how quills and parchment and ink help with that." She blinked at Ashby, genuinely curious. Quote:
Originally Posted by rubindo Aaron heard the Ravenclaw. She's right. In every class we should be learning how to protect our selves form the floods. I know I certainly don't want another broomshed incident. He then rubbed his arms remebering. he then raised his hand. "Yeah, why aren't we learning anything in ANY class to protect ourselves from the floods." He didn't want to sound demanding, but it was the way it came out. "Um... i mean, it would help us all, professor." he added trying to help himslef. Ian was rather caught off-guard by these two students. "What is it with you all? What flood are you talking about?" It was a shame Ian was so terribly aloof, because he had just made a complete fool out of himself in front of the entire class.
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