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N = R* x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
- The Drake equation
The door to the Astronomy classroom is open, but Professor Antares isn't around yet. Not much about the room has changed - there's the large blackboard at the front, and the professor's desk, full of books, the smaller desks for the students, the image projector that Risu uses sometimes in the middle of the room...
While the room looks the same as before, if you glance through the tall windows into the grounds, you can see the old ship out on the lake.
OOC: Class to begin in about 30 minutes. Your characters can chat amongst themselves, but please don't go crazy. ^.^
I'm just one of those pretty little liars... | | I'm held down in this starless city...
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Originally Posted by Antarctica!
"Well... It's really hard to convey - these distances aren't anything we deal with regularly, so the numbers don't mean anything to us. But... Light travels at a speed of nearly 300,00 kilometres per second. That's six times around the Earth in one second. It takes a little more than a second for light to get from Earth to the Moon.
"Now, for light to reach us from the Sun takes 8 minutes. The average distance is 150 million kilometres. The furthest planed in our Solar System, Neptune, is already 4.5 billion kilometres away, or about four hours for light.
"But the closest star to us is already four light-years away. In kilometres, that's about 40 million million kilometres, or a 4 followed by 13 zeroes. Four light-years is, of course, nothing again on the galactic scale. The galaxy is about 100,000 light-years across. That's, er, a lot of space."
Helena's eyes went a little bit wide as professor Antares explained her everything. She simply blinked.
And blinked.
... and blinked.
However, the man had been really kind to explain everything to her. "Thank you," for the answer. That was all she managed to mumble. And... she wasn't that sure anymore whether she wanted to go THAT far away into space. "Indeed. A lot of space," the girl added with a nod.
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So much for wanting to be more active and reciting, Heather's head kept spinning about at everything as she madly tried to listen to the discussions and take down notes. How can her older sister, Camellia be so good at this?
She pouted and rested her chin on her palm as she looked around at the class and sighed. Looks like she'll be staying over time at the library again, trying to read up on her lessons.
she glanced at where Kurumi sat and saw that her best friend was practically frowning and was displeased. She was unsure of what, but she definitely could tell Kurumi was having a grand bad time.
she turned back to the professor, making a mental note to ask Kurumi later what was wrong or why she was looking rather displeased and tried to focus on the lesson at hand.
PHILOMATH ❅ not one atom, but two ♪ ♪ made of starstuff ❅ def main():
Text Cut: Sophia
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Originally Posted by Meh Reh
Sophia's eyes widened as one of her own members of her house seemed to feel attacked. That wasn't good. She understood what each of them meant, and none of them seemed to be dropping it. What on earth? But Professor Antares had addressed it as well. She wanted to make PEACE though.
"Guys, guys," she said. "No one dropped the 'dumb' insult as far as I'm aware. Kurumi has a point, but it's not the one that we need to be talking about here. I agree that it's similar, but this isn't where we need to discuss it per se."
Ugh, she BETTER not get attacked now. It's just a discussion about ALIENS. And if they possibly exist. That's what she's trying to get at here. That and to make people stop getting irritable with each other.
"I mean, I understand what you all mean," she said. "I really do. It was, admittedly, a really good metaphor. And while there are similarities, we don't want to be too small brained and get all mean with each other for no reason. I know it's gonna spark differentiating opinions, but really guys. We're talking about ALIENS. You know, if they have big eyes and green skin and how they eat and breathe and if they even exist."
She looked at everyone who had been in disagreement.
"Let's try to get back to that, metaphors aside? I'm sure there are other great opinions."
Sophia moved herself closer to her fellow Ravenclaw. She knew her name began with an R, but wasn't completely sure about it.
Sophia nodded while listening to this Slytherin girl talk, then turned to everyone else.
"THIS is what I'm talking about," she said, getting excited. "I never even thought about that. We as humans overlook the SIMPLEST things, like the sun as she pointed out. They could WORSHIP the sun, like the Egyptians did thousands upon thousands of years ago. We don't know that." She paused, and then started back up once she got her train of thought back. "They might be thinking that they're the only ones in existence. Or they could be thinking the same, how there might be other life forms besides themselves out there, but they're waiting for us to communicate with them."
She leaned back in her seat a little.
"I'll take this one step farther..." she began. "What if they've already discovered us, and are getting entertainment out of watching us talk about them and wonder if they exist? This could be like one big movie for them. They would probably feel so incredibly superior to us because they've discovered that we exist, and that they're the best race in every universe because they can discover new beings."
Another pause.
"What if they're already communicating with us, and Muggle technology isn't strong or advanced enough to decipher it?"
Ryden's eyes got smaller and smaller until they were practically slits. There was ONE decent girl here who'd realised that she hadn't truly insulted anyone, but the brunette was way too angry with everyone to really show any gratitude. "I don't need your help," she murmured to the girl as she got closer, but there was no real venom in her voice.
This was her way of saying thank you.
Noting each and every unfriendly face in the room, she bit back a hurt response, cleaned her face of any emotion and lay back in her chair, putting up an act of complete indifference. Let them say whatever they wanted to say - she didn't care. They were all beneath her anyway and the sooner she was out of here, the better. Then she'd never have to see them again.
She'd say goodbye to Professor Antares though. Maybe even keep in touch with him or something.
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Originally Posted by Antarctica!
"Well... It's really hard to convey - these distances aren't anything we deal with regularly, so the numbers don't mean anything to us. But... Light travels at a speed of nearly 300,00 kilometres per second. That's six times around the Earth in one second. It takes a little more than a second for light to get from Earth to the Moon.
"Now, for light to reach us from the Sun takes 8 minutes. The average distance is 150 million kilometres. The furthest planed in our Solar System, Neptune, is already 4.5 billion kilometres away, or about four hours for light.
"But the closest star to us is already four light-years away. In kilometres, that's about 40 million million kilometres, or a 4 followed by 13 zeroes. Four light-years is, of course, nothing again on the galactic scale. The galaxy is about 100,000 light-years across. That's, er, a lot of space."
All the studying high gone out of her, Ryden picked up her quill and wrote down these notes, horribly aware of the atmosphere in the room but determined not to show how affected she was. She hadn't actually insulted them. She desperately wanted to, but she hadn't.
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Kurumi had chosen to remain in silence after the Ravenclaw had continued to verbally abuse not only her but every other student who had so much as raised an opinion. What was the point in speaking if SOMEONE was just going to be flat out rude? There wasn't.
Kurumi turned around and looked at the other Ravenclaw who seemed to be directing her comment more towards Kurumi and her friends than anyone else. They hadn't been the ones to start anything. It was the older Claw who had snapped at them. They, as far as she could tell, were all in agreement. She was the one who seemed to be arguing for the sake of arguing. As for the whole Muggle Studies bit, she had merely been making an observation in which SOMEONE had then attacked her and demanded that she explain herself.
Kurumi wanted to throw her hands up in the air, grab her things, and just leave right now. She hadn't come into Astronomy today for this and she did not appreciate the stern look she had received from Professor Antares.
Instead, Kurumi simply crossed her arms, set her quill on top of her parchment, and waited for class to be over.
Selina was getting very tense as she sat in her seat. She looked to Kurumi who was next to her who seemed to share similar sentiments to her friend. This Ravenclaw was acting more like a bratty three year old than an older and, supposedly, more mature student. But hey, if she wanted to bite and argue... Selina was good at that. Selina was very good at that.
What was it her father always joked when Selina got angry? Something like HULK SMASH! But that was beside the point. Selina had been calm until the Ravenclaw had decided that she was going to take her comment personally. It was not meant to be personal, just being a good friend. Hey, if you want to get in the kitchen make sure you can take the heat.
Selina's hands grew tight in a fist and she started to shake them under her desk. She was not going to be violent... unless she needed to. So through gritted teeth she said, "Oi, stop taking everything so personally. And don't dominate the conversation. If you are allowed to express your opinion by default so can I and so can Kurumi. If you don't like it then you are in the wrong environment. Because school is about bouncing ideas off of your peers. Not getting indignant."
Selina was getting very tense as she sat in her seat. She looked to Kurumi who was next to her who seemed to share similar sentiments to her friend. This Ravenclaw was acting more like a bratty three year old than an older and, supposedly, more mature student. But hey, if she wanted to bite and argue... Selina was good at that. Selina was very good at that.
What was it her father always joked when Selina got angry? Something like HULK SMASH! But that was beside the point. Selina had been calm until the Ravenclaw had decided that she was going to take her comment personally. It was not meant to be personal, just being a good friend. Hey, if you want to get in the kitchen make sure you can take the heat.
Selina's hands grew tight in a fist and she started to shake them under her desk. She was not going to be violent... unless she needed to. So through gritted teeth she said, "Oi, stop taking everything so personally. And don't dominate the conversation. If you are allowed to express your opinion by default so can I and so can Kurumi. If you don't like it then you are in the wrong environment. Because school is about bouncing ideas off of your peers. Not getting indignant."
"I agree, can we just chill out?" said Aurora, as much as she liked it when other people were in conflict this was getting a bit much for such a small issue.
Ryden's eyes got smaller and smaller until they were practically slits. There was ONE decent girl here who'd realised that she hadn't truly insulted anyone, but the brunette was way too angry with everyone to really show any gratitude. "I don't need your help," she murmured to the girl as she got closer, but there was no real venom in her voice.
This was her way of saying thank you.
Noting each and every unfriendly face in the room, she bit back a hurt response, cleaned her face of any emotion and lay back in her chair, putting up an act of complete indifference. Let them say whatever they wanted to say - she didn't care. They were all beneath her anyway and the sooner she was out of here, the better. Then she'd never have to see them again.
She'd say goodbye to Professor Antares though. Maybe even keep in touch with him or something.
Sophia raised an eyebrow. She wasn't used to rude attitudes, especially from fellow housemates. Of course people were going to be rude in class, because opinions would get hurt and people would get offended.
But really, it's just class.
"You're welcome," Sophia said, staring right at her fellow Ravenclaw. If she was going to be rude, there was no need to be a sweetheart to her.
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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict
Selina was getting very tense as she sat in her seat. She looked to Kurumi who was next to her who seemed to share similar sentiments to her friend. This Ravenclaw was acting more like a bratty three year old than an older and, supposedly, more mature student. But hey, if she wanted to bite and argue... Selina was good at that. Selina was very good at that.
What was it her father always joked when Selina got angry? Something like HULK SMASH! But that was beside the point. Selina had been calm until the Ravenclaw had decided that she was going to take her comment personally. It was not meant to be personal, just being a good friend. Hey, if you want to get in the kitchen make sure you can take the heat.
Selina's hands grew tight in a fist and she started to shake them under her desk. She was not going to be violent... unless she needed to. So through gritted teeth she said, "Oi, stop taking everything so personally. And don't dominate the conversation. If you are allowed to express your opinion by default so can I and so can Kurumi. If you don't like it then you are in the wrong environment. Because school is about bouncing ideas off of your peers. Not getting indignant."
Sophia's eyes widened, yet again, as soon as someone else started to get uppity about the whole situation. She stared at the girl, in disbelief, honestly, because she was completely ignoring the Professor's comment about stopping this whole thing.
So much for a friendly discussion.
"Really," Sophia said, still staring at the Gryffindor. "Just... let it be. Drop it, we don't need anything else happening. This is a class, after all."
Really people. Calm down.
"No one wanted this to start. Just everyone drop it before this gets any more out of hand, and houses start losing points that everyone works so hard for."
PHILOMATH ❅ not one atom, but two ♪ ♪ made of starstuff ❅ def main():
And then Ryden lost it.
"What the HECK is your problem, Gryffindor? Shut your stupid TRAP and mind your own business. Merlin's beard, you don't know the FIRST thing about me and you say I'm taking it personally. WELL. I didn't call your friend - who, by the way, doesn't need protection from you as far as I can tell - dumb or any of the things you accused me for. If you'd just LISTENED for a minute, perhaps you'd see things in a whole different light but NO. Merlin forbid your brain would actually take the time to think before it said anything, you STUPID LITTLE IDIOT," Ryden practically yelled, then turned to Professor Antares, completely ignoring her fellow Ravenclaw's comment.
"I'm sorry, professor - your class was really great," the brunette said, then took her bag, shoved her things into it and stalked out of the classroom.
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Simon had been sitting listing when it sounded like World War three had broken out. "Professor I had nothing to do with this." Simon could for once in his life say he didn't start something, he knew he was starting to get a reputation for being in trouble expecially after losing 50 points for Hufflepuff and then losing more points for arguing in the lesson he wanted to make it perfectly clear he had nothing to do with this.
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Alex was completely confused. He'd been focused on his conversation with Eino and William and hadn't even noticed WHY those students started fighting, but the next thing he knew, the Ravenclaw girl was calling a Gryffindor girl an idiot.
His mouth dropped and he stared at her as she stormed out of the classroom. "How RUDE," he muttered to himself, shaking his head and pushing some hair out of his eyes. He turned back to his group and wrinkled his brows. "Sorry, they distracted me, what we were talking about again?"
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Risu chuckled, shrugging. "Possibly? Maybe on some other world, an extraterrestrial being is grabbing every literary award on offer for imagining and writing about a race of two-legged ape descendants around a little yellow star." He shrugged again. "Why not."
"Of course," Risu said, nodding. "Even on our planet we have extremes of temperature that only very few things can survive. But even before we get to weather, a planet must have a stable atmosphere. A place like Mars, with only a very minimal atmosphere, doesn't have much else to offer other than dust storms."
Risu waved a hand at the arguing students. "Alright, alright, everyone calm down," he said, looking as severely as possible - not something he was used to. Frowny-face muscles weren't some he habitually employed. "Discussing different opinions is fine, but we're getting too far afield here. Maybe you should ask your Muggle Studies professor about this," he added.
"Erm..." His brow furrowed. "Sorry, Miss Griffiths, I lost my train of thought. Since I can't give you a definite answer either way, this lesson is merely intended to familiarise yourselves with a few of the concepts that have historically been among the most important in the discussion about possible alien life. As we've pointed out amply, they have their flaws and counterarguments, but we should be able to evaluate those arguments. I have something a little more hands-on planned for the next lesson, but we will need to know about this before we start anything else."
He shrugged. "Maybe we are alone. It's possible. I personally don't really think so, but I do think that the problems of size and distance aren't easily talked away. What I mean is, first, that even just our own galaxy, with its possible billions of planets with life on them, is so big that looking for specific inhabited planets might well be a never-ending task. And second, even if it were possible to pinpoint such planets, the distances between them and us are so unimaginably huge that even communication via radio signals - which travel at the speed of light, obviously - requires a lot of, er, patience. Astronomers could send one message and then would have to wait for the next generation to receive an answer.
"But," he said, leaning against the desk, "we should probably wrap up here in a little while. Before we do, though, are there any questions, or anything that needs to be clarified. Or, really," he added, "anything that you just want to discuss further."
" Thank you for explaining that to me professor" Willaim told him. " I never thought about the weather on Mars could be very deceptive" William explained to the professor.
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Alex was completely confused. He'd been focused on his conversation with Eino and William and hadn't even noticed WHY those students started fighting, but the next thing he knew, the Ravenclaw girl was calling a Gryffindor girl an idiot.
His mouth dropped and he stared at her as she stormed out of the classroom. "How RUDE," he muttered to himself, shaking his head and pushing some hair out of his eyes. He turned back to his group and wrinkled his brows. "Sorry, they distracted me, what we were talking about again?"
"We weew discussing the elements of the planets" Willaim told Alex. " I think that is what we had been discussing" Willaim said to Alex. William did not like the argument and no one tells a Gryffindor in front of him that thay are stupid.
Alex was completely confused. He'd been focused on his conversation with Eino and William and hadn't even noticed WHY those students started fighting, but the next thing he knew, the Ravenclaw girl was calling a Gryffindor girl an idiot.
His mouth dropped and he stared at her as she stormed out of the classroom. "How RUDE," he muttered to himself, shaking his head and pushing some hair out of his eyes. He turned back to his group and wrinkled his brows. "Sorry, they distracted me, what we were talking about again?"
Eino picked up Alex's jaw and closed his mouth. "An acromantula could have crawled in your mouth." He explained. But he was right, the girl was rude. Eino just hoped that Ravenclaw wouldn't pay for the girl's uncalled for behavior. He looked at Alex and shrugged. He knew something was going to happen, and was completely confused as to why the Professor hadn't apprehended her before. He hoped Kurumi wouldn't mind the insult and just ignore it, and he certainly hoped the rest of the Gryffindors wouldn't follow her out. That would not be good. On the bright side, he didn't have to listen to that girl's annoying voice anymore. "I suppose we were taking about aliens and whatnot..." Although, they had exhausted the subject of discussion.
"Well that was pleasant..." said Aurora. "Who would have thought that aliens could cause such an argument?" she laughed.
Throughout the lesson Stella had been minding her own business, she used the time to fix her hair and redo her flawless nails. But, she also listened to the very calm and quiet discussion. Haha. She didn't want to interfere the discussion the girls were having, even though she wanted to help the poor little Ravenclaw. The argument the girls were having was rather entertaining, she just wished she had with her a bag full of low-fat popcorn to make this feel like a real drama series.
She watched the small girl stalk out of the classroom, and she wanted to become involved in the small argument. Hearing how the Slytherin laughed at the girl, Stella flicked her hair over her shoulder and deviously said, "Oi, there's nothing funny about this. You stupid Huffies are completely wrong here."
Because obviously they were all being stupid, so by default they were Hufflepuffs. Mmhm.
Throughout the lesson Stella had been minding her own business, she used the time to fix her hair and redo her flawless nails. But, she also listened to the very calm and quiet discussion. Haha. She didn't want to interfere the discussion the girls were having, even though she wanted to help the poor little Ravenclaw. The argument the girls were having was rather entertaining, she just wished she had with her a bag full of low-fat popcorn to make this feel like a real drama series.
She watched the small girl stalk out of the classroom, and she wanted to become involved in the small argument. Hearing how the Slytherin laughed at the girl, Stella flicked her hair over her shoulder and deviously said, "Oi, there's nothing funny about this. You stupid Huffies are completely wrong here."
Because obviously they were all being stupid, so by default they were Hufflepuffs. Mmhm.
"Alright, no need to get all haughty. You'd think a seventh year would be more mature. And clever enough, being a Ravenclaw, to notice the green all over my robes and, even if you were colourblind the badge is pretty obvious." she laughed even more, refusing to let the older girl get to her. As if she could be a Hufflepuff.
Sophia raised an eyebrow. She wasn't used to rude attitudes, especially from fellow housemates. Of course people were going to be rude in class, because opinions would get hurt and people would get offended.
But really, it's just class.
"You're welcome," Sophia said, staring right at her fellow Ravenclaw. If she was going to be rude, there was no need to be a sweetheart to her.
Sophia's eyes widened, yet again, as soon as someone else started to get uppity about the whole situation. She stared at the girl, in disbelief, honestly, because she was completely ignoring the Professor's comment about stopping this whole thing.
So much for a friendly discussion.
"Really," Sophia said, still staring at the Gryffindor. "Just... let it be. Drop it, we don't need anything else happening. This is a class, after all."
Really people. Calm down.
"No one wanted this to start. Just everyone drop it before this gets any more out of hand, and houses start losing points that everyone works so hard for."
Selina went back to her notes after her comment and tried to forget what the older Ravenclaw had said and how she had answered. There was no need to fight. Opinions were opinions and people should not get indignant about others opinions. The older Ravenclaw was continually shooting down Kurumi the entire class and Selina was merely pointing out that it was Kurumi's opinion and in a working environment critique was not nice.
Then another Ravenclaw spoke out which drew Selina to look up. She was saying that they should all calm down and Selina nodded, "I agree. Getting angry isn't lucrative to this environment. And I'm sorry for saying oi- it wasn't very ladylike of me."
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And then Ryden lost it.
"What the HECK is your problem, Gryffindor? Shut your stupid TRAP and mind your own business. Merlin's beard, you don't know the FIRST thing about me and you say I'm taking it personally. WELL. I didn't call your friend - who, by the way, doesn't need protection from you as far as I can tell - dumb or any of the things you accused me for. If you'd just LISTENED for a minute, perhaps you'd see things in a whole different light but NO. Merlin forbid your brain would actually take the time to think before it said anything, you STUPID LITTLE IDIOT," Ryden practically yelled, then turned to Professor Antares, completely ignoring her fellow Ravenclaw's comment.
"I'm sorry, professor - your class was really great," the brunette said, then took her bag, shoved her things into it and stalked out of the classroom.
But then the Ravenclaw who had yelled at her previously started up again and called her every name in the book. For a few she said she was stupid and an idiot which Selina was sure that she was neither, unless it was Potions, than that nickname was completely valid. But what upset Selina the most was that she said that Selina said she called her dumb. She tried to explain calmly and make the girl understand, "I never called you dumb. I'm sorry if you thought I-". But the girl then got up and left the classroom.
Selina sat with her mouth open at what had just transpired. She had not intended her original agreement of Kurumi's opinion to escalate to the point of the Ravenclaw storming out of the classroom. What had just happened?
She looked at the Professor and said, "Sorry sir for the interruption of your class. I promise I'll find her after class and sort out... whatever just happened. No more interruptions..." Seriously.. what had just happened?
"Alright, no need to get all haughty. You'd think a seventh year would be more mature. And clever enough, being a Ravenclaw, to notice the green all over my robes and, even if you were colourblind the badge is pretty obvious." she laughed even more, refusing to let the older girl get to her. As if she could be a Hufflepuff.
Stella had the urge to punch the girl but then she decided not to do it because with who is she fighting with? A pathetic little Slytherpuff first year. "Well maybe the sorting hat made a mistake with your house Slytherpuff. But, who cares? You just shouldn't have laughed at the Ravenclaw." Seriously, most of the girls in this school were such drama queens. Herself included.
Selina went back to her notes after her comment and tried to forget what the older Ravenclaw had said and how she had answered. There was no need to fight. Opinions were opinions and people should not get indignant about others opinions. The older Ravenclaw was continually shooting down Kurumi the entire class and Selina was merely pointing out that it was Kurumi's opinion and in a working environment critique was not nice.
Then another Ravenclaw spoke out which drew Selina to look up. She was saying that they should all calm down and Selina nodded, "I agree. Getting angry isn't lucrative to this environment. And I'm sorry for saying oi- it wasn't very ladylike of me."
But then the Ravenclaw who had yelled at her previously started up again and called her every name in the book. For a few she said she was stupid and an idiot which Selina was sure that she was neither, unless it was Potions, than that nickname was completely valid. But what upset Selina the most was that she said that Selina said she called her dumb. She tried to explain calmly and make the girl understand, "I never called you dumb. I'm sorry if you thought I-". But the girl then got up and left the classroom.
Selina sat with her mouth open at what had just transpired. She had not intended her original agreement of Kurumi's opinion to escalate to the point of the Ravenclaw storming out of the classroom. What had just happened?
She looked at the Professor and said, "Sorry sir for the interruption of your class. I promise I'll find her after class and sort out... whatever just happened. No more interruptions..." Seriously.. what had just happened?
William mouthed these wirds to Selina. "Are you ok?" William mouthed to Selina You are not stupid and neither are Gryffindors. " I will help you if you ever need me" Willaim mouthed to Selina.
Stella had the urge to punch the girl but then she decided not to do it because with who is she fighting with? A pathetic little Slytherpuff first year. "Well maybe the sorting hat made a mistake with your house Slytherpuff. But, who cares? You just shouldn't have laughed at the Ravenclaw." Seriously, most of the girls in this school were such drama queens. Herself included.
Aurora laughed again. "I'm not so insecure about myself to worry if I'm in the wrong house, maybe you're projecting your insecurities." She could see that the girl wanted to hurt her and she was loving it. "Stop trying to make this into a full on argument and act your age. I'm supposed to be immature."
Aurora laughed again. "I'm not so insecure about myself to worry if I'm in the wrong house, maybe you're projecting your insecurities." She could see that the girl wanted to hurt her and she was loving it. "Stop trying to make this into a full on argument and act your age. I'm supposed to be immature."
Stella scoffed, flicked her wrist and turned to the board. The Hufflepuff firstie had just become incredibly uninteresting, and Stella went back to twirling her hair and waiting for something more interesting to happen.
Stella scoffed, flicked her wrist and turned to the board. The Hufflepuff firstie had just become incredibly uninteresting, and Stella went back to twirling her hair and waiting for something more interesting to happen.
Aurora couldn't keep it restrained any longer. She burst out laughing even more and had to hold her sides. She managed to calm herself down and took a deep breath.
"I am sorry Professor, I don't want to get into any conflict, your lesson's brilliant. A little confusing maybe, but very interesting." she wiped the last few tears of laughter from her eye and sighed.
"What the HECK is your problem, Gryffindor? Shut your stupid TRAP and mind your own business. Merlin's beard, you don't know the FIRST thing about me and you say I'm taking it personally. WELL. I didn't call your friend - who, by the way, doesn't need protection from you as far as I can tell - dumb or any of the things you accused me for. If you'd just LISTENED for a minute, perhaps you'd see things in a whole different light but NO. Merlin forbid your brain would actually take the time to think before it said anything, you STUPID LITTLE IDIOT," Ryden practically yelled, then turned to Professor Antares, completely ignoring her fellow Ravenclaw's comment.
"I'm sorry, professor - your class was really great," the brunette said, then took her bag, shoved her things into it and stalked out of the classroom.
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Sophia stared, yet again, at everything that was going on. This girl had just stormed out of class because people couldn't stop talking about it. No matter what she tried to say, no one would listen. This was just so frustrating.
She would've exploded too at all this nonsense. It's all completely uncalled for.
Rubbing her temples, she closed her eyes and ignored the chatter around her commenting on her fellow housemate's exit.
This was not a good day. And after all she had tried so hard and worked so hard today in Astronomy... she didn't want it to go to waste.
SPOILER!!: Fight #2
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Throughout the lesson Stella had been minding her own business, she used the time to fix her hair and redo her flawless nails. But, she also listened to the very calm and quiet discussion. Haha. She didn't want to interfere the discussion the girls were having, even though she wanted to help the poor little Ravenclaw. The argument the girls were having was rather entertaining, she just wished she had with her a bag full of low-fat popcorn to make this feel like a real drama series.
She watched the small girl stalk out of the classroom, and she wanted to become involved in the small argument. Hearing how the Slytherin laughed at the girl, Stella flicked her hair over her shoulder and deviously said, "Oi, there's nothing funny about this. You stupid Huffies are completely wrong here."
Because obviously they were all being stupid, so by default they were Hufflepuffs. Mmhm.
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Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn
"Alright, no need to get all haughty. You'd think a seventh year would be more mature. And clever enough, being a Ravenclaw, to notice the green all over my robes and, even if you were colourblind the badge is pretty obvious." she laughed even more, refusing to let the older girl get to her. As if she could be a Hufflepuff.
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Stella had the urge to punch the girl but then she decided not to do it because with who is she fighting with? A pathetic little Slytherpuff first year. "Well maybe the sorting hat made a mistake with your house Slytherpuff. But, who cares? You just shouldn't have laughed at the Ravenclaw." Seriously, most of the girls in this school were such drama queens. Herself included.
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Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn
Aurora laughed again. "I'm not so insecure about myself to worry if I'm in the wrong house, maybe you're projecting your insecurities." She could see that the girl wanted to hurt her and she was loving it. "Stop trying to make this into a full on argument and act your age. I'm supposed to be immature."
Great. Another argument.
Sophia opened her eyes and looked to find the source of the new bickering. It came between a seventh year, and a first year? Really? This is just getting way out of hand. She couldn't do anything because she wasn't a Prefect. Where were they anyway? They should be able to put their foot down.
Since she was the only one who had done it before...
"You two," she said in an even, calm tone. "Please, this is just unnecessary. Not in the classroom. Save your bickering for later, or just drop it, or something."
HOW IMMATURE AND RUDE. Why was everyone acting like this?! This is extremely frustrating.
"Besides, I want to know the homework so I can start." Really, that was true. She needed extra time to work on it, and all this fighting was delaying it.
Sophia opened her eyes and looked to find the source of the new bickering. It came between a seventh year, and a first year? Really? This is just getting way out of hand. She couldn't do anything because she wasn't a Prefect. Where were they anyway? They should be able to put their foot down.
Since she was the only one who had done it before...
"You two," she said in an even, calm tone. "Please, this is just unnecessary. Not in the classroom. Save your bickering for later, or just drop it, or something."
HOW IMMATURE AND RUDE. Why was everyone acting like this?! This is extremely frustrating.
"Besides, I want to know the homework so I can start." Really, that was true. She needed extra time to work on it, and all this fighting was delaying it.
Aurora stopped smiling immediately, this girl was making it seem like it was her fault! "Honestly, all I want is the homework too, it's not my fault that I'm being snapped at." said Aurora, she had only been trying to make people calm down in the first place and that Ravenclaw had snapped at her. She took a deep breath. "Sorry." she said.
Sophia stared, yet again, at everything that was going on. This girl had just stormed out of class because people couldn't stop talking about it. No matter what she tried to say, no one would listen. This was just so frustrating.
She would've exploded too at all this nonsense. It's all completely uncalled for.
Rubbing her temples, she closed her eyes and ignored the chatter around her commenting on her fellow housemate's exit.
This was not a good day. And after all she had tried so hard and worked so hard today in Astronomy... she didn't want it to go to waste.
SPOILER!!: Fight #2
Great. Another argument.
Sophia opened her eyes and looked to find the source of the new bickering. It came between a seventh year, and a first year? Really? This is just getting way out of hand. She couldn't do anything because she wasn't a Prefect. Where were they anyway? They should be able to put their foot down.
Since she was the only one who had done it before...
"You two," she said in an even, calm tone. "Please, this is just unnecessary. Not in the classroom. Save your bickering for later, or just drop it, or something."
HOW IMMATURE AND RUDE. Why was everyone acting like this?! This is extremely frustrating.
"Besides, I want to know the homework so I can start." Really, that was true. She needed extra time to work on it, and all this fighting was delaying it.
Stella looked at her and rolled her eyes, but the Ravenclaw is right, it's time to put an end to this fight, even though she felt her adrenalin pumping like it never pumped before. "I totally agree with you," she said to her, and once again she let her mind drift to another world.
Sophia pursed her lips into a thin line. She never really got mad, but this was insane.
She wasn't making it ANYONE'S fault. Calling out people was not something she did unless she absolutely had to. And in this case, it was far from it because it would just make more people mad. Both students were in an argument. They both needed to stop. It was that simple, and she was just trying to cool everything down. Sophia was getting a headache from it.
The brunette sighed, and turned towards the board. If people were going to be like that, and snap at her when THEY were out of line in the first place, then fine. Time to ignore everything else.
She flipped open her Astronomy book, and began to read the chapter they just talked about, waiting for homework.
Geez people were uptight today. She leafed through her Astronomy book, smiling to herself a little. She really hoped that all Astronomy lessons wouldn't be like this, even if she did enjoy a little argument here and there. She didn't want to be losing any points.
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