Originally Posted by Miss Lissy Lou

"Very good interpretation, Mister Lockhart," Nolan said with a grin. Man, this kid was always on fire in his class. He was so good at Divination!



Another rather...interesting dream. but a very good interpretation of it as well. "Excellent job!" Nolan complimented her with a smile.



"Since we're running short on time, I'm going to ask you to refrain, but since I already read your dream I can tell you that I personally enjoyed it and your interpretation," Nolan told Rex with a chuckle.

Elvis was awesome.



Nolan laughed. "Sounds like one of those old Muggle movies...very good work interpreting that," he told the Slytherin.



Oh my. That was...more like a nightmare. "Goodness...I really do hope that doesn't happen in real life," Nolan said.

Well DUH. No one wanted that to happen in real life! He should have mentally prepared himself better than his lesson.



Another nightmare! Nolan blinked a few times and cleared his throat. "That sure sounds quite troubling...thank you for sharing," he told her.

These kids knew what Calming Draught was, right? It sounded like some of them needed it!



Oh, a happy dream! "Yes, good interpretation! Good for Evelyn too, yes?" he said with a chuckle.



"Well, if you can't figure out what the other symbols are, you can break them down. For example, while forest may not be on the list, trees are, so you can use that as one of your symbols. Sometimes dreams may only have one or two symbols in them that you can actually interpret as well," he explained.













Just when Nolan thought all the craziness had died down, he noticed a few girls...a fair few of them, just NOW starting to partner up. Sighing and running a hand over his eyes under his glasses, he cleared his throat. "Ladies? We've moved on from the partner portion of this lesson and we're listening to people share their dreams. Please cease your interpretations and pay attention," he told them.




Ok, this was the final straw.

Nolan hopped off of his desk and crossed his arms. "Miss Mayberry, we've moved on with the lesson. Meaning you should be listening to your classmates and paying them respect rather than chatting. Two points from Ravenclaw," he told her.



OOC: Sorry if I'm making Nolan seem overly harsh, but you guys have GOT to pay attention to what I'm posting. I know for a fact I posted over two pages ago that we were wrapping things up and we'd moved on to sharing our dreams. I apologize if I didn't make things clear enough in my posts, but if it was simply a matter of you not reading my posts and paying attention, PLEASE try and do this in the future lessons. Sometimes you may need to read a few pages to catch up, but it's definitely worth it and takes away a distraction from the other students when people are chatting and RPing something we'd stopped pages ago. Also, it frustrates ME because I feel you guys are just skimming my posts...I don't post just to see myself post, you know :] *hugs*



Now stressed to the point that his back hurt due to their failure to listen to him, he took a deep breath and kindly smiled at them. Just because he was annoyed didn't mean he should be a jerk to the rest of the class.

"I think the time has come to excuse you for the day. Please pack up your things, and there is no need to turn in your interpretation -- keep them for your notes. I was keeping track of who was participating," he told them. "Homework will be posted in a few minutes, which also brings me to my next point of business."

"This semester, you'll have a term long project, and I'm sure many of you have already guessed it--we'll be keeping dream diaries this term," he told them with a grin. FINALLY they'd reached the part of the lesson he was thrilled about! "In case you haven't noticed, there's a bookcase outside with numerous dream diaries completely blank and ready to be written in...and one of the best parts is that, when you take a diary and begin to write in it, it is YOUR diary, and won't open for anyone else, except for me since I need to grade them," he explained. So, no need to worry about privacy being violated!

"More exact details will be given when I post the homework, but the gist of the assignment is this: You'll need to record THREE dreams in your diary over the course of the year. Don't interpret them, just write them down. Later in the year, we'll interpret them as part of the final. You have all year to do it, so don't fret about getting them all done at once!" he explained. "Just don't forget about them!"

"So, let's see...homework...dream diary assignment...I think that's it. See you all next lesson! I'll be in my office if you have any questions about the homework or the dream diary assignment," he added.