Divination I :: Tasseography
 

Professor Reynolds was at the front of the class, sitting on the edge of his desk as the students trickled in. He straightened his glasses and did one last glance around the room to make sure everything was in it's proper place. The classroom hadn't changed much since Dumont used it--with the exception of a few more potted plants to decorate the place. Nolan couldn't deal with all those magical ones in the greenhouses (or anything that was OUTSIDE in general), but regular old house plants were one of his favorites.

"Welcome everyone, please take a seat," he said as the first students started to arrive. Could they tell he was nervous? EEP. FIRST LESSON. He was definitely nervous, but he was doing his best to stop his voice from shaking and his palms from sweating. "As you come in, please make a nametag on your desk, stating your name and your house. If you're a prefect or Quidditch captain, it'd be nice to know that as well," he added with a small smile. He needed to know who held the badges in this room!

"We'll get started once everyone has had a chance to sit down and make their nametags," he explained.

OOC: Links to helpful info and points in the lesson:
What IS Divination?
Some types of Divination
Fortune Telling Tea Cups
Proper Tea Drinking Hand
Rim, Middle and Base sections of Cup/Instructions for doing a reading (start your RP here!)

Arya walked into the classroom with her bag slung over her shoulder. She wasn't in her usual cheery mood, but there was a smile on her face. Taking a seat in the middle, she droped her bag on the ground and glanced around the classroom before letting her eyes settle on the new professor. "Hello Professor."

Pulling out her quill and parchement, she wrote the information needed, folded it, and propped it up so the professor was able to read it.

Abby walked into the Divination classroom and decided that she would have to choose a seat near the front. The subject wasn't one that easily held her attention for long. Plopping down in a seat, she waved and smiled at the professor. "Good day, sir," she said cheerily. He seemed nice. She looked down at the nametag on her desk. Well, that was a smart idea. None of the other professors seemed to have thought of that. She wrote her name down neatly on it and put in on. Yup! Nice and ready now.

As usual, the more energy the trip to the classroom consumed, the more hyper Ty was when he entered. Against common sense? Perhaps, but then again he was always not what people expected.

Bouncing into the classroom, Ty nodded to the Professor as he took a seat near the middle. "Hello Professor!" he squeaked, his eyes bright with excitement at the prospect of a whole new lesson. Plonking his bag down onto the floor, he quickly took out his writing utensils and wrote his name in big block letters, and Ravenclaw underneath. Folding it, he made it stand with the use of his inkwell and admired his handiwork.

"Is this all right, Professor? Can you see it?" Ty asked as he turned the name tag towards their Professor. He looked nice - the glasses made him seem pretty wicked as well. Ty liked glasses, they usually made people seem friendlier.

Trixie walked in, took a seat next to Ella like she had been doing in all her lessons. She was still unsure if they were on speaking terms at the moment but oh well. "Good Morning Sir. How are you today?" she asked the professor. She picked up her phoenix feather quill and wrote down

Before looking up and grinning. Divination sounded....Interesting.

Simon walked into the classroom, he was excited, he hadn't seen the Professor since there little chat in his office. "Good day Professor Reynolds, how are you?" Simon smiled at the Professor and took a name tag.

Simon went and found a desk and sat down and wrote his information on the name tag.

"Professor Reynold do we put these on?" Simon asked as he looked at the name tag.

Kevin wandered into the divination classroom and said "Morning Sir" Kevin wrote his name and his year and house down onto a bit of parchment

Destiny was in trouble.

She had forgotten to put her glasses on before heading up to the classroom, and now, she couldn't SEE! Pretty funny considering she was heading towards Divination class. Heh.

Standing outside the 'door', she squinted her eyes and 'entered' the class.

That wasn't a door. Nope. In fact, it was a very hard WALL. "OW!" she exclaimed, the impact making her stumble back a bit. Rubbing her forehead, where the wall met it, the glasses that were sitting on top of her head..the WHOLE time..slid down, finally resting on the bridge of her nose. Oops.

Walking into the classroom, using the REAL door, she greeted the Professor with a smile and a nod of her head. She found an empty seat as far away from raccoon girl as possible and took out parchment and a quill.

Evelyn was having a hard time walking into the classroom. Since she was walking right behind Destiny, she witnessed the entire event where her friend missed the door and that was just...Bahaha!

Clenching her sides, she leaned against the wall outside the classroom, taking a few deep breathes before standing up and walking into the classroom, making sure no giggles or snickers escaped her. Pssh, don't want her friend to know she was laughing at her. Hehe.

"Hello, Professor." she smiled at him, giving him a small wave before sitting down next to Destiny. Name tag? Looking at Destiny's name tag, she had to stifle another laugh. Her friend needed conbits or whatever those things were that helped one see.

Rhea finally got to the divination classroom. She was a hufflepuff, they needed special ways to get all the way up to the towers for Merlin's sake. She stopped at the door and took a deep breath relaxing her breathing before proceeding into the classroom.
"G,day prof.." she was still a bit too breathless to give an extended greeting with names and title included.

Taking her seat she wrote up her name tag.

Divination! Oliver actually liked Divination even though for some reason it seemed like a very girly subject. All that business of reading the stars and shizz – he didn't like that side of Divination, oh no; he liked the idea of throwing animal entrails over your shoulder or whatever and reading the future from how they landed. It was completely nuts, but it was fun to see the disgusted looks on the female students faces. Hehehe.

He beamed at the professor -another new one- on the way past and looked around the room at all the faces, then sauntered off to sit next to Nancy Hudonson. throwing his bag on the floor. He grinned at the prefect before reaching out for his card and writing down his details in his untidy scrawl:

Heh! Awesomeness. He should have given Evelyn that as his middle name in Arithmancy. Snort. He sat back and was unusually quiet as he waited for the lesson to begin. Meh.. the professors had been a bit strict so far this year. He didn't want to risk losing any more points for the Snakes.

Aiden walked into the classroom, rubbing his eyes. Why was he so tired? Maybe it was a full moon or something.. that threw off one's sleep habits, yes? After greeting the professor, he plopped his bag onto the nearest unoccupied desk and pulled out the chair. All he could think about was was staring at the pretty blackness of the inside of his eyelids! Hopefully this class would have some excitement because this boy needed to wake up.

After grabbing his quill and an extra piece of parchment, he scribbled his information down in his distinct chicken scratch handwriting.

Amy bounced into the classroom, hey professor, she said brightly smiling as she made her way to her seat and began to write in her book

"Good day," Nolan said with a smile as he read her nametag. OOOH a Hufflepuff! It made him grin to see members of his former house in his class. Hehe.

"Hello Miss...Hartzler," he replied, leaning forward a bit on his desk so he could read her nametag. Oh yes, this was a great idea--it was going to be so much easier reading their names this way!

"Good day Miss Ainsworth," he said with a smile. This was getting easier with each student. Hmmm, he might have them bring their nametags to class again if this worked out as nicely as he envisioned...

Nolan chuckled at the overactive child who had practically bounced into the classroom and nodded. "Yes, I can see it perfectly, thank you, Tyler."

These students were so nice and polite! It was a nice change after that dramatic opening feast. "I'm quite well thank you Miss..." Pause to read the name on the tag, "...Malfoy, how about yourself?"

"I'm fine, thank you Simon, how about you?" he asked, recalling their recent meeting in his office. He certainly seemed happier than he had before. "And no, you can just place it on your desk so I can read it," he replied.

"Good morning," Nolan replied happily, looking at the boy's elegant writing on his nametag. OOH the first Gryffindor of the class!

"Good morning...Kevin," Nolan greeted the boy, pausing once more to read the name on the Slytherin's nametag.

There was a loud THUD outside the classroom, and Nolan jumped up an inch or two in his desk. EEP! He didn't need ANOTHER student injuring their head and forgetting where they were. He'd had enough of that, thank you very much.

As the girl entered the classroom, he recognized all too well that the girl obviously wasn't wearing glasses when she should--since he himself had horrible eyesight, he knew EXACTLY how someone looked when they couldn't see well. "Are you alright Miss Shepard?" he asked. Maybe she'd want to move to the front or something...

"We'll start in a few minutes, I just want to leave time for everyone else to get here," he said. Yes, he wanted the latecomers to have a chance to come join the fun too!

OOC: BOOOOOOOOOOOO. I had a NICE PRETTY POST where I replied to all of you, and SS killed it after I posted o_O I'm sorrrrry :[ I'll add the rest of the replies in my next post, I promise!

Simon looked at the Professor with a smile. "I'm a lot better today thanks Professor." Simon looked at the name tag, he had really wanted to put in on but oh well never mind, he quickly placed it on the desk so that the Professor could see it. "Professor do you want it so you can read it, so turned your way, or do you want it where I can read it, so turned my way?" Simon wanted everything to be perfect.

Oliver leaned forward, elbow on the desk and chin resting in the heal of his palm. Oooh look there was pretty Brody Summers with her pretty summery name and pretty summery hair; moving in slow motion as Oliver gazed at her dreamily. Man that smile was.. sigh.

She sat in front of him and Oliver tore his eyes away to focus on his textbook which he opened on a random page. Moleosophy? He crinkled his nose. You could read the future by looking at someone's moles!? Eh.. weird. He turned his head and eyed Nancy to see if she had any big ol' hairy moles on her face. Squinttttttttt. Meh.. not that he could see. heh.