Evelyn smiled and giggle a little, taking the seat next to him. "I'm wondering the same thing." she said softly and a little excited, looking around at the classroom, hoping to find any clues as to what they were going to do. Finding none, she shrugged her shoulders and turned back to Rafe, giving him a small smile. She was fully awake now and the flowery scent of the room was forgotten, so she hoped she would be able to concentrate on the lesson.

OMG FLOOOWEERSSSSS.

See, Cam was an epic fail in Divination but yess yes... flowers... he could do, right? There was a flower language? A LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS??? Well he never ever knew thaaaat. He watched everyone get partners but huuuhhh. It seemed everyone was taken. "Partners... anyone? Aaannyyoooneeee???" He went up from his seat and in a clueless manner started sniffin' for a partner.

HE WANTED A PARTNER PEOPLE.

"Sure. Sounds like this class is gonna be interesting." she said with an impish smirk.

Zoe saw a boy who was looking like he was in need of a partner as well so she sucked up her courage and leaned over in his direction. “Would you mind partnering with me for class?” she asked timidly. Hopefully he was patient because she had no idea what to do when it came to Divination.

Cam waited. Heeeee WAITED. Well no not really, he just started sniffin' for someone with no partner and teeheeeee someone finally came to him. Small firstie. She was a firstie, right? Well she suuuuureee looked like it heh. "Alright," he said with a grin, "ehhhh my name's Cam. Wot's yours?" 'Cause NUH UH would he work with a total stranger.

That was dangerous! He looked back at Kapoor and waited for the FLOWER-y lesson to start.

"Alright class, keep pairing up as I go on to explain a few things about Floriography." Kapoor placed his hands over his two front pockets looking for that tiny piece of chalk. He tried his back pockets, then the two chest pockets before finding it in his sock. "Some of you might be wondering how it is that a flower can be used to decode meaning. In other words, how is Floriography practiced? Well, it can be done a number of ways, but we always start with a floral dictionary of sorts. A listing of various types of flowers and their meanings. For instance, red roses signify true love, while daisies denote innocence, faith and loyal love. One could consider that perhaps, this is why they are most often chosen as the flower consultant when determining whether or not an object of adoration returns the favour." As he spoke he wrote down the following notes on the blackboard for the students.

"What do you students think; Could one flower have multiple meanings?"

"Professor" Damon said raising his hand "Many flowers can have multiple meanings. I sometimes go by the color of a particular flower to determine a meaning from it. It seems to work everytime if you look at it long enough."

Destiny raised her hand.
'I think one flower could have different meanings. Maybe not the exact same flower but different color flowers. Like the red rose will have a totally different meaning than the pink or white rose.'

Kaika raised her hand, and her elbow almost hit Jack in its way up, "Well, you've just pointed out that Daisies have multiple meanings, so, yes...I think many flowers do...perhaps it mostly depends on the situation it was used for, or..to whom the flowers were given...but most importantly, the different regions in which the flower exists" she said, trying to explain it as nicely as she could, or as her mind made the connections.

"Is it possible, Professor, for the meanings of one single flower, if this one has many, to be somewhat opposite one another? I mean, one single flower meaning different (opposite) things to people or circumstances" she asked, tilting her head to one side.

Jack raised his hand and asked, 'Would things like the number of petals affect the meaning?'

'Did he just pull that chalk out of his sock?' Evelyn thought, frowning. 'Wow, some weird people here.' Thinking for a moment on what the Professor said, she got confused while too deep in thought. Does the meaning change if it's a different color then? Before raising her hand though, a few other students had already mentioned what she was thinking. Shrugging her shoulders slightly, she leaned back in her chair and listened to the other students' suggestions.

Jack blinked and nearly toppled off his chair trying to avoid Kaika's hand before raising his own to answer the question. "I think it's possible for flowers to have multiple meanings, depending on the situation. Plus, as someone already said, the color of flowers--particularly roses--changes the meaning." he answered.

Mina raised her hand after jotting down the notes. "Professor, yes, I think one flower can have multiple meanings. Like you mentioned of the daises. But could a specific regions have different meaning for the same flower?" she asked as she lowered her hand. Somewhere in her skimming of the text, she had seen a mention of Cherry Blossoms representing different things depending on with it was in China or Japan.

Another question formed in her head and her hand again rocketed up. "What about flowers grouped together, like roses of different color. Do they have multiple meanings due to the many colors?"

"That's it. Precisely, Mr. Cunderthorne. Take 2 points for Ravenclaw and one for your partners house." That was how he'd be doling out the points for the teamwork portion of the lesson.

"Exactly. Colour plays a huge role in determining the meaning of certain flowers. Take 2 points for Slytherin and your partner gets one as well."

"That is possible. And I'm glad you brought up the fact that flowers may have different meanings as the regions they are used in varies. We'll be talking a little bit about Hanakotoba later on in the lesson as well. 2 and 1, Miss Lockhart and Mr. Fritzera. As well as 2 for Gryffindor and another 1 for Hufflepuff for Mr. Fritzera's answer."

"In more advanced uses of Floriography, yes, because you're looking at the overall appearance as well as what type of flower it is. A healthy looking clover is more fortunate than one which is riddled with disease. 2 for Ravenclaw and one for Gryffindor." He said, getting back to arranging still more flowers onto the little round table.

"I think what you'll be looking at in such cases,..." he began addressing Mina. "Is what the flower means on its own before pulling it together in one cohesive message. 2 for the claws and 1 for her partner."

Kapoor continued on with the class. "If you'll all take a moment to turn your books to page 217 you'll find a chart there listing for you some of the main flowers used in floriography and their meanings. For the next part of the class, I'd like for you to create a tussie mussie on your own. The tussie mussie should have no more than 3 flowers total and be of a specific meaning which you will determine. When you are done, give the flowers to your partner and ask them to interpret it. Keep a score on a sheet of parchment and give your partner 1 point if he or she correctly interpreted at least two of the flowers in the tussie mussie." What a ridiculous term. He felt ridiculous saying it. And for Kapoor, that was saying something. "And 2 more points if they could correctly gather the gist of your overall statement. Once that's done, pass the papers up to me and we'll use your scores to determine how the next part of the lesson shall go."

Mina turned to the current page in the text and scanned down the list. So many possible combinations. What do I want the flowers to say, she asked herself. Did she want to have them look pretty together or did she want them to convey a deep meaning?

Blinking her eyes slowly, it finally came to her. She pulled a sheet of parchment out and set it aside as she started on her tussie mussie. 'Tussie mussie, is a funny word,' she giggled to herself as she continued to work.

With a smile of confidence, she looked down at her work and admired her handiwork. Neatly and beautifully arranged before her was a bouquet of cherry blossoms, lotuses, and lily of the valley; She did a nice job, if she thought so herself.

'Wonder how Tibi is doing.' she thought as she turned her attention to her partner beside her.

Blakey still didn't have a partner, boo! Standing up from his seat, he looked around the classroom for someone unpaired, "Need a partner?" He said to no one in particular.

"Sure." Celandine sat down and promptly got completely distracted by the shoes again, leaning back enough so she could see them at least partially.

Aaaaand that was why she missed the introduction to the class and what they were supposed to do. But floriomancy! SHE KNEEWWWWW THAT STTUUUUFFFS!

She straightened up again when the Professor mentioned Tussie Mussies and decided right then if she ever had twin girls she'd totally call them Tussie and Mussie.

It definitely sounded better than nosegay.

So. Three flowers total? Not three kinds of flower? Well, Cela supposed they weren't technically aiming for pretty so she guessed it made sense. She began choosing her flowers, her tongue poking out from the side of her mouth as she decided.

The humming totally helped her decision too.

She cheerfully chose purple lilac, an orange rose and lastly, her name sake, Celandine.

Too bad there wasn't exactly a flower that meant Copernicus Kettleburn.

She passed her Tussie Mussie over to Adrienne to interpret.

Could flowers talk? Wow, who could guess that? And Evan had thought this class would be based on leaf/globe/card etc. reading. Definately not flower reading. He became out of his trance with Blake's voice. He didn't have partner too. He walked to him and said "Me needs a partner." Grin. It'd be fun with Blake.

At least it seemed we got the pairing up part of class taken care of, Adrienne thought as Cela agreed to her suggestion. Half trying to pay attention as the class discussion continued, even though she was forced to try not to grin as she saw Cela's actions in her peripheral vision, as her housemate kept trying to lok at her shoes again. For being so horrified by the idea of losing points, she still seemed kind of fascinated. But class. She needed to pay attention, since for once she actually was only faintly aware of the subject. Maybe I should look more closely at grandmother's library next summer, she thought, taking notes as various aspects were discussed.

But then they were told to create their own tussie mussies, for their partners to interpret, and she flipped to the appropriate page of the textbook before returning her attention to Cela. Who had started humming as she put hers together. "Okay," she said as the flowers were passed to her. Continuing to glance at her book as she tried to decipher the flowers. "Well, purple lilac has to do with first love, like when you first fall in love. Orange roses . . ." She glanced at her book again. "Desire. So, whoever this is about, I assume probably you, since this is your tussie mussie, really is passionate about their feelings for this other person, and then celandine," she didn't really miss the non-symbolic menaing to that one, "Is 'joys to come,' or, probably, happiness in the future. So you're really passionate about this person you love, and you anticipate that things will only get better as time goes on." Or something like that. At least, she thought it was the best she could do, with the information she had 9and she had more than just suspicions about who the other person was, but for sake of classroom discussion, she wasn't going to go there).

"I guess it's my turn then," she said, handing the flowers back to Cela as she then tried to figure out her own tussie mussie. After several minutes of thought, mainly about if she actually wanted to possibly reveal that secret, but eventually figuring at least it would make for an interesting interpretation, she came up with a collection of blue roses, sunflowers and witch-hazel. Which actually, as she looked at it, made for an interesting image even without the meanings. At least the colors did.

Handing her newly created tussie mussie to Cela, she waited to see if the girl could figure it out. Her housemate was pretty intelligent, so she really wasn't going to be surprised if she did. But then, someone was going to figure it out at some point anyway.

Cedric is wandering around in search for a partner. Their lesson for today is pretty interesting cause its about flowers and all. He's sure that he'll enjoy their activity. And participating on activities will surely give Hufflepuff a lot of points so he need to participate and cooperate on their classes. Ced was still looking around then he said loudly so everyone can hear, "Anyone needs a partner?"

"I do!" Magenta answered, swapping seats to sit next to the Hufflepuff boy. Although not the greatest scholar, her competitive streak urged her to participate fully in this particular activity, Slytherin were not going to lose this years house cup! "Ah, here's my...tussie mussie" she said, handing him her flower arrangement made up of Dahlia's, Hollyhock's and Thistles. "Have you made yours?"

Nikki looked around nervously. She didn't have a partner...Again. Because she was from Australia, she didn't know anyone. Not that she was good at socialising, anyway...

"Um, does anyone else need a partner?? I'm free...." She spoke quietly, and wasn't quite sure if she'd been heard.

The brunette looked around again. No one. Alright. She'd make a ... tussie mussie. What the? Who made these things up? What was that even supposed to mean?!

The first year shook her head, and decided to make the dragon damned tussie mussie thingy, if it was the last thing she did! After looking at all the types of flowers, she thought it might just BE the last thing she did...

It was a rather plain tussie mussie. And horribly pink. Not at all her taste, but it had a nice meaning. A large pink lotus was surrounded by some pinky-red dahlias, whiched had just bloomed. Nikki had threaded through some Ivy for the finishing touch.

She smiled as she pushed a few stray petals into place. It was fine. The lotus signified purity, chasity and eloquence. The dahlia gave it elegance and dignity, but then the Ivy took away from the strong image, and made it dependent.

Nikki thought it was a tad like herself. She had her dignity, and wanted to be eloquent and elegant. Yet she was horribly dependant on her mother. Well, her cat now that her mother was off galibaning around Europe, or something.

Nikki sighed and put her carnation down. She hoped she'd done it right.

Nataly nodded and opened her book on the page the Proffesor instructed to open. She looked at the meanings of the flowers. Ooh, they're so romantic! she thought. Yep, she was becoming Hufflepuffish again. But that was probably because the aroma in the classroom, and her being a hopeless romantic. Deep inside.
She saw that Blake partnered up with Evan, so she asked, "Does anyone need a partner?"

Tibi was confused. He was supposed to pick flowers and then she'd read them? So it was code? Tibi scrunched up his face, flipped to the correct page and set to work on his tussie mussie.

He wasn't feeling fantastic about the whole thing, moping as he selected a blue rose, mint and ivy to make up his Tussie Mussie.

Turning to Mina, he managed a smile and held it out to her. Accepting hers, he looked through the text. "Well, we're not in Japan nor in China, soooo, I'm going to go with 'good education' as the meaning for the cherry blossoms, and um.." Tibi looked back to the text. "Lilys of the valley mean trustworthy... annnnd, lotuses are for" Tibi scrunched up his face. "purity, chastity and eloquence."

"Sooo, putting them all together, I'd say that you're getting a lot out of your time at Hogwarts and that you're a well-behaved, well-spoken student that can be trusted."

Tibi looked up from his text, knowing it wasn't a very good reading. He shrugged. "You turn, I guess."

Evan and Blake? Together? Flower Reading? Hoooowww romantic, teehee.
Chuckling a little, patted Evan's back and smiled, "Sure man! Let's get this started, who's going to interpret first?" He wiggled his eyebrows and chuckled mentally at the thought of a hidden love message for Evan through a bunch of flowers, heehah!