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A sweet and aromatic scent was forthpouring from the Divination classroom that afternoon. Roses of several varieties bloomed and shed their multi-coloured petals on the floor almost lining the path to the various desks. Lilacs, and orchids were placed at the front of the room and standing behind a veritable spray of creeping white jasmine was the well meaning lunatic of a Divination Professor, Kapoor. Meerily standing by as the students entered the class.
"Good afternoon, students. Please don't move the chairs. They've been pushed together as we'll be doing team exercises today." He explained.
Evelyn looked up when Rafe handed in their assignment. Wait...did he write the answers down? She completely forgot to, she barely noticed. Smiling at him guiltily that he had to do that, she looked back over to the professor when he announced he needed to volunteers. 'Hmm...should i? Or shouldn't i...' she thought. 'Yea, you should go up there.' the voice said, almost sweetly. 'To make an idiot of myself probably.' Evelyn replied back, laying the red rose she had been holding onto the table and crossing her arms. 'Besides, i fail at divination.' Another minute longer, she gave up and raised her hand. "I'll volunteer professor."
"Thank you, Miss Flores!" The Professor was glad she volunteered. "Now, I'll need one more. A Ravenclaw."
"Thank you, Miss Flores!" The Professor was glad she volunteered. "Now, I'll need one more. A Ravenclaw."
Cedric turned as their Professor had said that he urgently needed some volunteers but he need err.. A Ravenclaw. He raised his hand, "I want to volunteer, sir but I'm not err a Ravenclaw." He answered politely.
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Evelyn sat, satisfied and a little nervous that she was one of the people volunteering...wait...what? 'A Ravenclaw? Specifically? Why?' She was hoping maybe Josh would've volunteered so at least she would have known the person. She didn't know any Ravenclaws. 'Huh...not only that, but whoever its going to be is probably a genius in this stuff too.' Definitely didn't make her feel any better, and she tried to ignore the snickering voice in her mind as she picked up the rose she put down a minute ago and started examining it again, waiting to here what she had to do.
Ok, Daniel loved flowers and he adores them, that is why he is having a hard time choosing just three to give meanings to. Especially to his life. So he grabbed the books and turned to the page accounted for and slowly picked the three that suits him best.
Daffodil, Lily of the Valley, Magnolia
He then scribbled the meaning of the flowers on his parchment.
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I picked Daffodil because it means only love. That is the flower that my parents usually gives me and they will say that I am their only one.
A saddened appearance and emotion engulfed Daniel. the memory of his parent's lost is too much for him. But he needs to move on.
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I have chosen Lily of the Valley because it is associated with mothers. These flowers are the last gift that I have given my mom before she departs. This is her favorite flowers. She would tell me that, it is because of these flowers they, she and my dad, met each other.
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The last one is Magnolia. It signifies nobility. The future that is ahead of me. I am left with a task of leading a small nation to greatness. And being a vis-Count isn't a great profession, being a wizard, but I can take it and will be good at it/
After finishing the tussie mussie, he walked over the table and handed the assignment to the professor and returned to his place where he pondered on things of the past.
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Red roses too.
I see 'em bloom for me and for you.
And I think to myself, What a wonderful world.
Cedric turned as their Professor had said that he urgently needed some volunteers but he need err.. A Ravenclaw. He raised his hand, "I want to volunteer, sir but I'm not err a Ravenclaw." He answered politely.
"Perfectly alright, Mr. Leone. You can advocate on behalf of the house." He said, accepting Cedrics offer to be a volunteer.
"For the next part of the lesson, we'll be dividing the class into two teams. The first team shall be captained by Miss Flores from Slytherin house. And the second team shall have Mr. Leone for a captain." He said explaining the first part of the concept to the class. "Ms. Flores, please take a seat on the right side of the room. Mr. Leone, you take the left."
"Now, we're going to be playing for points, so I'll need all the slytherins and hufflepuffs to go and sit with Ms. Flores over there on the right side of the room. And, all of the ravenclaws and gryffindors to sit on the left with Mr. Leone." He said emphasizing the sides by pointing, only he'd used the wrong hands so he ended up crossing them in front.
"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
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"Perfectly alright, Mr. Leone. You can advocate on behalf of the house." He said, accepting Cedrics offer to be a volunteer.
"For the next part of the lesson, we'll be dividing the class into two teams. The first team shall be captained by Miss Flores from Slytherin house. And the second team shall have Mr. Leone for a captain." He said explaining the first part of the concept to the class. "Ms. Flores, please take a seat on the right side of the room. Mr. Leone, you take the left."
"Now, we're going to be playing for points, so I'll need all the slytherins and hufflepuffs to go and sit with Ms. Flores over there on the right side of the room. And, all of the ravenclaws and gryffindors to sit on the left with Mr. Leone." He said emphasizing the sides by pointing, only he'd used the wrong hands so he ended up crossing them in front.
"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
Evelyn heart suddenly stopped. 'Captain? No...not what i thought i was going to do.' But with only the slightest hesitation, she got up and went to go sit in the seat the professor pointed to. She glanced at all the flowers in the front of the class while passing them, thinking over the question the professor asked about the Tigerlily. She had no clue. 'I'm a crappy person to choose for a captain...i know that.' she mumbled solemnly in her mind, although she was smiling sweetly on the outside. Looking up at all the students and then the professor, she waited again for what was going to happen next but then someone spoke the answer to the question. 'I'll have to remember that.' Hopefully it would be useful to what they were going to do.
"Perfectly alright, Mr. Leone. You can advocate on behalf of the house." He said, accepting Cedrics offer to be a volunteer.
"For the next part of the lesson, we'll be dividing the class into two teams. The first team shall be captained by Miss Flores from Slytherin house. And the second team shall have Mr. Leone for a captain." He said explaining the first part of the concept to the class. "Ms. Flores, please take a seat on the right side of the room. Mr. Leone, you take the left."
"Now, we're going to be playing for points, so I'll need all the slytherins and hufflepuffs to go and sit with Ms. Flores over there on the right side of the room. And, all of the ravenclaws and gryffindors to sit on the left with Mr. Leone." He said emphasizing the sides by pointing, only he'd used the wrong hands so he ended up crossing them in front.
"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
Cedric smiled conceitedly as he gained Professor Kapoor's acceptance. He walked warily at the left, following their Prof's instructions. And he's a captain, that's really nice. He's good in terms of being a leader or a captain.
He raised his hand rapidly, "Professor. Tiger Lily means Wealth and Pride." He answered, that's all he come up with with their textbook. And he hope that that one would suffice
Rafe raised his hand, "The tigerlily sends a message of hope for wealth or it expresses wealth and pride." Rafe was so disappointed that he didn't raise his hand fast enough to volunteer. He thought he was getting the hand of this whole Divination-Floriomancy thing, but this didn't mean he wasn't going to stop from trying to get his team to win. He went over to Hufflepuff/Gryffindor side and sort of wished he was on the team with the Slytherins and Evelyn, after all they had been partners.
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Celandine moved to the appropriate side of the classroom, eyeing the table that Professor Kapoor was arranging flowers on.
Wealth. Well she knew that was what Tiger Lily represented. She was pretty sure she could see where the class was going, based on the flowers on the table, so she flipped a few pages over in her textbook ans waited for more questions.
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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.
Nikki handed in her tussie mussie, and wrote her description, name, house and year on a piece of parchment. She hoped she'd done it right, and gave a quick glance back at the flowers, wondering if she could perhaps sneak them bak and rewrite a better response.
The brunette sighed and walked over to where the Professor pointed. Flowers weren't really her thing, but it was still an ... interesting, lesson.
Michelle's nervous expression changed into delight. `Wonderful Okay, so I've prepared a tussie mussie here,' she said, handing her tussie mussie to the boy. `So you want to guess what these convey, er... sorry, you didn't tell me your name?'
Kay got up and start to move her things when the professor asked the question. Kay put her hand in the air. "Sir, I believe it stand for wealth and pride, sir." She answered. Play on a team, that would be new. Kay pulled on Marie's robe a little to get her moving to the other side of the room.
Nataly listened to Samson's guess. Pretty? She didn't think about that. He made her message to sound very complicated. Maybe it was difficult and she didn't notice? Or maybe it was because the cherry blossom had three meanings?
"My meaning was much simpler, though your guess is partly true-Hogwarts gives a good education, and I'm famous because my family are rich pureblood snobs." at this she frowned, remembering how her parents treated her, like a golden doll without her own will. Of course, she didn't mention about the 'pretty' part-what girl would have the brains to admit to someone she's pretty? But she still mentioned to herself it was a true guess, smirking. "I wanted to say that with the good education Hogwarts gives, you can welcome fame. I give you a point." she smiled at him, and written on her parchment:
Then she took Samson's group of flowers, examining it. Pink Carnation, dark pink Rose and Arbor Vitae. She searched the meanings of these flowers in her heavy divination book.
"Pink Carnation means a woman's love, dark pink rose means gratitude and everlasting friendship." That was a confusing meaning. Nataly started thinking fast.
"Er.. You have a female friend that loves you, she's your best friend and you're grateful for that?" Nataly asked. She hoped she would get at least one point, but probably she guessed it all wrong. She felt it was total nonsense.
Eh. One point was good enough. Samson was satisfied.
He smiled at Nataly as she made her guess, and nodded slowly. "That's pretty much right. I mean, I've got this, er, really, closely intimate female friend, if you know what I mean. And yeah, she's my best friend, too." That was a nice thing to admit, he realized. It felt good to talk about Issy that way, and he found it fulfilling on his own as well.
"2 points for you, then." He was feeling generous, as well as a little uplifted from the sleepyness he was feeling previously. "Here, let me submit those papers for us." He took her parchment from her and scribbled on his own before giving it to the professor.
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Nataly, Slytherin: 2 points
Then he stood up and proceeded to Professor Kapoor. "Here you are, professor. We've done our stuff," he lay the papers on his desk and returned to the table.
Now what?
Now... Lesson time again.
"Sir, the Tigerlily basically means wealth," he said. Now he was just a little bit more attentive.
"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
Abigail put up her hand “Professor Tiger Lily has the meaning of Prosperity. Do flowers have different meanings in different countries?” She knew the others had answered the question as well, but she didn’t want to ask her own question without answering the professor.
Evan was waiting for Blake to say "right" or "wrong" at his interpretation when he heard some of Lyra's comments to another older Slytherin girl, and he froze bug-eyed. He was immeditaly red with humiliation. How could she talk about this delicate topic in an LESSON?! Turning to her while anger rushed through his veins, he remembered that this was a lesson. He could do nothing further but glare and glower. So did he, for a second, and went to Joshua's girlfriend's group to join. He avoided eye contact with everyone, especially Slytherins. Now his private life was public, and he would never ever forget that.
He would be glad to be in a Slytherin's group, but he was too annoyed to think properly. He didn't even hear the professor's question and sat there in his group making a face. And he would NOT even look at Lyra. Never.
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Mouth slightly open, Kiri listened to the girl talk. Her prediction (lucky guess was more accurate, in Kiri's opinion) had turned out to be true. For a given value of 'true'.
She wasn't sure she wanted to hear about it, especially as this it seemed to be highly personal, but the girl didn't appear to mind, letting Kiri in on a long and complicated story that involved ice cream and duelling. Kiri alternated between looks at Lyra and looks over her shoulder at the boy she'd pointed out.
"Er, I see," was, consequently, the only thing she could think of saying when Lyra was done. Kiri didn't really have a clue what else to say - Divination seemed to be the wrong lesson for advice, and at any rate, one had to be really desperate to ask Kiri's help in... romantic matters. "Maybe this means, um, that the situation's about to change," she ventured uncertainly, glancing at Lyra's flowers. She had the sneaking suspicion that those bouquets did not so much predict the future as give insight into the current mood of their creators.
In reply to Lyra's question, Kiri nodded. "Sure, have a gue-, I mean, prediction," she said, handing over her own tussie-mussie. She'd arranged, without much attention to detail, two roses, one yellow and one red (of course), a snowdrop and a few twigs of fennel.
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Lyra nodded her head and took the flowers from Kiri. She knew she had talked too much and told a little too much information. 'And you want to become a Auror hah' she told herself. "Eh sorry about the explaination..i guess it just threw out of me" she said while hiding a nervous laugh.
She placed the bouquet in front of her and looked at her own open book to find the meanings of the flowers. She trailed with her finger and found one flower.
"Eh, ok..so a yellow rose means friendship, or of course jealousy like mine." She took the flower out of the bouquet and placed it on the otherside of the desk. "This is a red one - Oww!" she dropped the red rose on the floor after pricking herself on a torn. A small drop of blood became visible on her finger but she didn't paid attention to it. "Sorry" she said and got under the desk to pick up the rose again. "While the Red rose means True Love....hm, try love hurts i guess" she muttered as she wiped off the drop of blood with her robe. Lyra then picked up the Snowdrop and examined it. "heh , i like this flower" she said while twirling it around. "This flower means, charity..no wait" she looked at her book again and found the flower. "Hope, it means hope or consolation" Lyra then picked up the last few flowers that were all the same, "Strength" she said and looked at Kiri. She had picked a few of these flowers, could this mean that there was powerful strength hidden inside her magic abilities? So Cool!
"Well, so..eh.. i guess you know someone that was once your friend, or maybe still is and you have a secret crush on him but your scared to tell him that you like him because the red rose stung you, No wait, it stung me...mweeh this is so confusingly stupid" Lyra said and shook her head but tried anyway. "So this flower" she held up the Snowdrop "Will give you Hope ..or something.." She scratched the back of her head looking confused. "Divination was never my best subject.." The Slytherin pointed at the last Fennel flowers and grinned. "But i do know what that means! It means that your going to have awesomely strength in magic and can use power beyond your own reach!!" She said with a raised voice and stood up from her chair, and did kickbox manoeuvres with her fists.
Lyra hadn't realised that the professor had started talking again. She blushed a fire red colour and sat down on the chair again listening and trying veeeery hard not to look at Evan. cue gulp
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Zoe moved over to the side of the room with the other Gryffindors and Ravenclaws, finding herself a seat she made herself comfortable.
Hearing the professors question she raised her hand, "The Tiger Lily can also express that you are afraid, as well as prosperity or hope for wealth, sir. I also see that it could mean 'For Once May Pride Befriend Me' Depending on the source it looks like a flower could mean many things. Do you think then that when floriography was used more often a person’s message could be misinterpreted and then create trouble?"
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'Teams? For what?' Destiny had no idea what was going on. She gathered her things and walked over to the side of the room where the Slytherins were seated. She knew Evelyn was the captain of her team, and as she walked past her she gave her a big 'thumbs up'.
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Abigail rolled her eyes at the over confident boy, ‘maybe I shouldn’t encourage him.’ Looking over in the direction of the professor she nodded in agreement. “You’re right, but I think our chit-chat has all been related to your tussie mussie so we have been doing work really. We should move on though, why don’t you make another tussie mussie and I’ll find its meaning.” She quite liked doing the tussie mussie actually, which she definitely wasn’t expecting. ‘Although I do agree with Josh it is all guess work.’
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"Perfectly alright, Mr. Leone. You can advocate on behalf of the house." He said, accepting Cedrics offer to be a volunteer.
"For the next part of the lesson, we'll be dividing the class into two teams. The first team shall be captained by Miss Flores from Slytherin house. And the second team shall have Mr. Leone for a captain." He said explaining the first part of the concept to the class. "Ms. Flores, please take a seat on the right side of the room. Mr. Leone, you take the left."
"Now, we're going to be playing for points, so I'll need all the slytherins and hufflepuffs to go and sit with Ms. Flores over there on the right side of the room. And, all of the ravenclaws and gryffindors to sit on the left with Mr. Leone." He said emphasizing the sides by pointing, only he'd used the wrong hands so he ended up crossing them in front.
"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
Josh laughed. That tussie mussie thing was funny to pronounce, quite funny. Along with having a funny name, Josh, found it quite as interesting as the runes reading except the fact that the scents of some of the flowers annoyed him. ''Good idea'' he told Abigail ''I'd love to enjoy another tusssie mussie missie''
He was too busy with choosing new flowers that he did not even realise the professor talking. It was when he heard Rose's voice 'volunteering' for something that he looked up and forgot about choosing flowers. A wide smirk appearing on his face, doing volunteer interpretation before a whole class was kinda a thing he'd love to do especially with Rose, he was about to announce that he'd but it was a great dissappointed for him when the professor wanted a Ravenclaw which made him retreat.
He looked back at Abigail ''I think he wanted to say Gryffindors and Hufflepuff since that Leano is Hufflepuff. So i think that change wont apply on us much'' winking at her, he walked over to the left side where other Gryffindors were gathering.
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Eh. One point was good enough. Samson was satisfied.
He smiled at Nataly as she made her guess, and nodded slowly. "That's pretty much right. I mean, I've got this, er, really, closely intimate female friend, if you know what I mean. And yeah, she's my best friend, too." That was a nice thing to admit, he realized. It felt good to talk about Issy that way, and he found it fulfilling on his own as well.
"2 points for you, then." He was feeling generous, as well as a little uplifted from the sleepyness he was feeling previously. "Here, let me submit those papers for us." He took her parchment from her and scribbled on his own before giving it to the professor.
Then he stood up and proceeded to Professor Kapoor. "Here you are, professor. We've done our stuff," he lay the papers on his desk and returned to the table.
Now what?
Now... Lesson time again.
"Sir, the Tigerlily basically means wealth," he said. Now he was just a little bit more attentive.
Nataly smiled widely. She guessed everything right, even when she thought it was totally absurd.
"Well, I hope everything is settled between you." she said politely, meaning it.
Only then she noticed Professor Kapoor asked a question, but many people already answered it, so she stayed silent.
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"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
Mina moved over to sit with her fellow 'claws and Gryffindors. Pulling out another piece of parchment, she settled in to resume taking notes.
Hearing the professor's question, she glanced down at her test and looked for an answer. Wealth, pride, prosperity. Hearing all the other students give these answers, she chose to just remain quiet and continue to see if she could find anything more to offer.
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"Perfectly alright, Mr. Leone. You can advocate on behalf of the house." He said, accepting Cedrics offer to be a volunteer.
"For the next part of the lesson, we'll be dividing the class into two teams. The first team shall be captained by Miss Flores from Slytherin house. And the second team shall have Mr. Leone for a captain." He said explaining the first part of the concept to the class. "Ms. Flores, please take a seat on the right side of the room. Mr. Leone, you take the left."
"Now, we're going to be playing for points, so I'll need all the slytherins and hufflepuffs to go and sit with Ms. Flores over there on the right side of the room. And, all of the ravenclaws and gryffindors to sit on the left with Mr. Leone." He said emphasizing the sides by pointing, only he'd used the wrong hands so he ended up crossing them in front.
"While you are getting situated. Who can tell me the Floriography meaning behind a Tigerlily?" Something of a trick question pertaining to the new arrangement of flowers lying on the other table in front of the class.
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Kay got up and start to move her things when the professor asked the question. Kay put her hand in the air. "Sir, I believe it stand for wealth and pride, sir." She answered. Play on a team, that would be new. Kay pulled on Marie's robe a little to get her moving to the other side of the room.
Marie raised her hand to answer the professor, "Professor, I believe the meaning behind the Tigerlily is hope for protection"
At that time Marie felt Kay tugging on her robes trying to get her to follow. "Cool, we get to be on the same team" Marie said to Kay as they walked over to sit by Evelyn.
Josh laughed. That tussie mussie thing was funny to pronounce, quite funny. Along with having a funny name, Josh, found it quite as interesting as the runes reading except the fact that the scents of some of the flowers annoyed him. ''Good idea'' he told Abigail ''I'd love to enjoy another tusssie mussie missie''
He was too busy with choosing new flowers that he did not even realise the professor talking. It was when he heard Rose's voice 'volunteering' for something that he looked up and forgot about choosing flowers. A wide smirk appearing on his face, doing volunteer interpretation before a whole class was kinda a thing he'd love to do especially with Rose, he was about to announce that he'd but it was a great dissappointed for him when the professor wanted a Ravenclaw which made him retreat.
He looked back at Abigail ''I think he wanted to say Gryffindors and Hufflepuff since that Leano is Hufflepuff. So i think that change wont apply on us much'' winking at her, he walked over to the left side where other Gryffindors were gathering.
Abigail frowned at this and looked around for the other team leader. Spotting him she realise he was warring a Hufflepuff tie. “I don’t think the professor realises, aren’t’ you going to tell him?” She decided it was beast just to stay where she was at the minute until the professor realised his mistake. “Looks like we’re not going to get the chance to do anymore tussie mussie’s.”
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