Simon felt like he was cleaning his broom rather then the telescope for Professor Hadley had been right it did tend to lean towards the same reasoning...if you wanted the equipment you worked with to work properly, you had to treat it with respect. So he was finishing up the refreshed first coat once more as he started the whole process over. Once he had once more awaited the alotted time, he added one more fresh coat of the cleaning solution. Thankfully the smell wasn't too overwhelming or he would have been done for by now.

Finally finding and retrieving said fresh towel, Jake got to work on rubbing the telescope clean, trying hard to get that solution off. It smelt weird, and Jake didn't really understand how you had to put something ELSE on an item to clean it.

Well... he understood, but he didn't like the nonsense knowledge.

Again with the tongue poking out, Jake rubbed all the solution off... and then looked at the telescope in disappointment. "I'm sure Antares kept these clean, but some fool really did a number on this thing," he grumbled to himself, grabbing the first cloth and starting over again with rubbing the cleaning solution on. He wouldn't need a fresh towel for later, either... the one he'd just used had plenty of clean space. YUP.

"So... where is Antares? I must have missed it if it was said..."

Wibble.

Not a terribly long process? That meant it WAS a long process and if there was anything more the Slytherin hated besides cleaning...it was a LONG cleaning process.

Sighing heavily and loudly, she staaaaared at the Professor as she created the LARGE instructions for them all to see as well as the cleaning supplies. Ugghhhhhh. Where was Destiny? Could she clean hers quickly and then clean Evelyn's? Her Slytherin friend knew that Evelyn only made things worse when cleaning. It just didn't come naturally to her like it did to Destiny.

The dark haired Slytherin will more then likely end up breaking the telescope than fixing it and making it all nice and clean. But, if the professor INSISTED, then she was going to clean this thing! WOOOOT!

Taking one of the towels, she stared at it for a moment before looking at the solution that was needed to clean the astronomy instrument. Nooooow, apply a light layer? This was soooo not the same as cleaning a broom.

Selina watched as Hadely began to start the lesson in Astronomy in the realm of cleaning. She tried her hardest to jot down all of the notes that were being spewed out. For an odd reason she could not find herself able to write fast enough. Once she was finally caught up Hadely had allowed them to get started on their cleaning of the instruments.

Then Selina went to the telescope and eyed it. Why was the machine so odd looking? Selina then looked back at her notes and sighed. Okay, she could do this. Very carefully Selina drew her hand to grab the towel and opened the cleaning solution provided. It had a strong oder to it and Selina felt like she was going to pass out. Swallowing her disgust Selina applied it to her towel.

She then waited several minutes for it to dry. As it dried Selina pondered what was happening lately in school. All of the teachers were filling in for others. It was an odd occurence she could not quite put her finger on. Before she could think any more she noticed her towel was dry and reapplied. Once it was ready Selina carefully rubbed the entire telescope in a clockwise motion until it was adiquite.

Luin then allowed it to air dry for a minute then applied another coat of cleaning solution and rubbedit onto the looking glass and all over the telescope. Keep the rubbing to clockwise circular motions all over the scope. She made sure to follow the directions as closely as possible.

Kyle sighed looking at the telescope - gunk! There was still gunk on it.

She quickly began again with step number rubbing the solution over the looking glass as well as the entire telescope. The rag was spotless at first, afterwards was black.

She crinkled her nose. And kept using the rag until the next step.

Jaina began to wipe off the telescope again with the fresh towel. "I wish we could have looked at the stars. That would have been cool." She applied more of the cleaning solution to the towel and wiped the scope yet again. She waited for it to air dry.

She wiped her last stroke, then swiftly set the towel down next to her telescope, proceeding to look thoughtfully at Jaina.
"Well," she said, pausing a moment later. "We can still look at the stars, if not through the telescopes. And we wouldn't very well be able to use them anyway, if they stayed dirty. We should come up later tonight, the four of us. We haven't in a while."
She glanced at Benjamin then Belle and then looked at Jaina, holding back a strong urge to wink. She always wanted to whenever one of them brought him up.

Selina admired her work and pressed on. She took a fresh towel and moved in the same circular motion she had previously to dry the entire telescope. Since she was so tiny and the telescope was so large Selina had to stand on her toes to reach every part of the tall telescope until it was completely dry. Once it was dry Selina went around a second time with her third step to make sure it was trully dry before she pressed on.

At the mention of Ben's name, Jaina got a chill and a streak of pink appeared. Ben always did that to her. She smiled and wiped the telescope with a fresh towel. "No, we haven't. I'd like that though," she said blushing. She looked over her scope. "I think it's done how about you? Nope, nevermind. One more coat."

Charley giggled when Jaina's hair changed. It was a telltale way to know what was going on in her head, once you knew which colour meant what, which of course Charley did by now.
"Okay, one more," she agreed, smiling almost teasingly. She'd already applied another layer of the cleaning solution to her towel, and had begun to apply it onto the scope itself.

What was left? K-Lee looked over the instructions and saw only two steps left. YES! Making sure the scope was completely clean, she sprayed on holding cream.

She hoped that after this telescope there weren't any more telescopes to clean. Now to see what step 6 was.

Whaaa- Might take 24 hours? "Professor, if these take 24 hours to dry fully, what will we do with them for that time?" K-Lee really hoped she didn't have to wait 24 hours.

She managed to clean her rag off with her wand - all the rag's she had used.

She took her fresh towel and began cleaning the solution off...And then she applied the second coat rubbing it in all over the glass, every bit of the telescope in general. She cleaned the rag again.

Well, now that she had the cleaner next to her, the Slytherin...continued to stare at it. Didn't they have some gloves or something they could use? What if this stuff burned her hands!? HMMM!?

Scoffing quietly, she slowly and carefully placed some of the cleaner onto the towel before switching from staring at the cleaner, to staring at the dirty telescope. Eh. This towel was going to be black by the time she was done wasn't she? Merlin, if she knew she'd be cleaning in the lesson, she'd have stuck with dropping the class. Sighing heavily, making SURE the professor...could've...heard that, Evelyn started on cleaning the telescope.

Ew..

Ewwwww....

LOOK at all the DIRT and DUST that was coming off! HOW long have they been sitting here? And why didn't they use these in the lesson a few terms back when they had that substitute in Astronomy instead of making those cruddy toilet paper roll telescope things?! Pffft.

Once the first task was terribly done, Evelyn smirked before glancing up to the instructions. WHAT?! They had to do another coating?! Meh. DRY FASTER!

Jaina removed the last layer of cleaning solution with a fresh towel. Her hands were dirty from the cleaning, so she didn't touch her newly cleaned telescope...that would mean more cleaning! She sprayed the holding cream on it. "Well, that should do it! It needs to dry for 24 hours, right?" As she bent down to pick up the towel she dropped, she noticed the pink streak. She quickly stood up and shook her head once to get rid of it. Dang it, Ben! she thought. She wiped her forehead with her dirty hand leving a dirt mark across it. "I swear Ben will be the death of me if I don't keep this hair under control when he's in the picture," she giggled, "It's the only thing I haven't mastered yet."

Professor Hadley walked around the table as she watched the students cleaning their telescopes. They seemed content with it ... doing it because it was part of the lesson, but had it been their choice, many would have neglected this very important and tedious task.

"Exactly. The looking glass is indeed one of the most important parts, so involves exceptional care. Partly why it is preferable to use manual labor for cleaning the telescopes rather than magical cleaning methods," Professor Hadley noted.

Another question about constellations. So they liked that topic, eh? She'd have to inform the next Astronomy professor of this favorable topic not the cleaning part, obviously.

"Yes, it is a constellation, but often seen more in the Winter months," Hadley replied to one of the students that seemed to not mind the cleaning.

Uh what was that Sinclair?! Get the holding cream in Diagon Alley?! What did he think this was.... hairspray?

"Mr Sinclair, I assure you this product is not one that could be used for beauty purposes." As for where she got it? The cupboard of course. "I'm not sure where it was originally bought but I do know when I was looking for materials for this lesson, I found it in the cupboard." Obviously.

Weren't you paying attention Jakers/?! Hadley looked over at the seventh year as he asked about Antares. Obviously she was not a replacement for Antares ; she had a decent comprehension of Astronomy, but to the level that Antares knew the material, she was nowhere near it. But seriously, was she THAT bad that he he had to be all sad about it...

"Not the slightest, Jake... If I knew, I wouldn't be teaching this lesson." No. She'd be out there getting him back.

Not one, but two Slytherins asked a rather similar question about the 24 hour thing. "That 24 hours to dry is simply a precautionary measure to ensure you don't get the cleaning solution on your persons." Hadley assured the two girls. "However, yes you won't be using these telescopes until tomorrow night... BUT I also want to assure you that you won't really be missing anything. It's supposed to be a cloudy night tonight, which doesn't make for much good star sighting."

"Please finish up your cleaning, but don't rush... When you're done, you may leave unless you have further questions about telescopes, constellations, or anything else that I might be able to help you with." Hadley informed the class as a whole. "Just make sure you clean up your workspace and leave a name card with your house and year by your telescope, so I can give you credit. There will be an assignment posted later, so check your notices."


ooc: The lesson thread will remain open for you to wrap up your cleaning process until tomorrow night when I get home from work. SO around 11pm EST on Monday, it will close. Thank you for your patience with me <33

This time Simon did take another fresh cloth to wipe of the cleaning solutions layers of liquid to get it dry once more seeing as it was part of the very instructions for the step he was performing at the time. His hands repeating the earlier clockwise circular motions as he worked hoping at least this time the telescope would appear in better shape cleaniness wise then before. The quidditch captain had no desire to repeat the steps over and over again to make things perfect in everyway for it already had to wair 24 hours once everything was done before using and he didn't want to waste time cleaning.

Oh.

So they came here JUST to clean telescopes.

Cool.

Helena smiled at professor Hadley, then decided to leave, since her telescope was shiny and all. "Goodbye...night," she said awkwardly, but still smiling, then left.

Emily took a name card and filled it out.

After tidying up her workspace and putting things away neatly Emily stood to leave.
"Thank you for the lesson Professor Hadley", then made her way out of the room.

K-Lee nodded, understanding what Professor Hadley was saying. She had finished her cleaning so wrote on a name card her house, name and year. Putting it next to her prettyfully clean telescope, K-Lee stood up.

Grabbing her belongings, K-Lee gave one last look at her clean telescope before leaving the classroom, glad that she was done with cleaning for the night. "Bye Professor Hadley, thanks for the lesson."

Charley finished scrupulously cleaning her telescope, then looked to Jaina.
"It should, yes. May I?" she asked, reaching towards the spray bottle of holding cream in Jaina's hand.
"I'll take a well-deserved trip to the library later, and try to find something that might help."
She reached over with her towel and gently wiped Jaina's forehead.
"There, all better," she said then giggled.

Emmy rubbed - again - yet more cleaner onto her now gleaming telescope, making sure that every millimetre was clean and sparkling. She was rather pleased with her work...
Even though it was so painful at the time, she was sure it would be worth it in the end.
She took her second cloth, and, finding a dry area, began to rub the cleaner off, following the same clockwise circular motions.

Jaina looked up towards her own forehead. "Thanks! That would have been embarrassing." She thought about it for a second. "That sounds like a good idea, but this is the first time I haven't been able to control it with a certain person. Maybe something's wrong with me." She filled out a card for her telescope:

Quote:

Jaina Maloney
First Year
Hufflepuff

With steps one, two, and three now complete, Sierra glanced back at the list of instructions, ready for step four. Well, she wasn't necessarily ready for it, but she was more or less ready to get it over with. Besides, Professor Hadley had just announced that once they were done with all the steps, they were free to leave. That alone was enough to get Sierra motivated.

Wait...what?! She now had re-do steps one, two, and three?!

With a fierce glare in her eyes and a frown on her face, she picked up another fresh towel and turned toward her telescope. Step four of the instructions had said 'as necessary', so if she didn't think it necessary, she didn't have to do this step, did she?! Mehh...she should at least look like she's doing something...

After dabbing a bit of solution onto her fresh towel, Sierra dabbed at a few spots that could use a little extra cleaning. She let those spots air dry for a minute, and then she applied a second coat of the solution. When all the little spots that weren't quite as clean were finally up to par, she used another fresh towel to dry it all off.

Finally--step five!

Luin finally went on to step three. She rubbed her towel over the telescope in the correct direction, quickly drying it. She hummed to herself a bit as she worked, this was going to be somewhat tedious but she was always fascinated by astronomy, so hopefully their next lesson they would be looking through these telescopes.