Ella raised her hand excitedly. She had learned all about the solar system when she attended her old school and was happy to actually know what they were discussing for once. "Professor, there are eight planets and the galaxy is...it's called..." Oh merlin, what was it called again? Something milky... "The milkyway!" She said, snapping her finger as she remembered.

Alyssa thought for awhile making sure that she had all the names of the planets before raising her hand."Professor, There are 9...oh wait 8 planets now in our solar system. Uh...I believe that our galaxy is called the Milky Way."

Laura looked at the Professor and smiled. "There is chocolate in the Galaxy." Laura giggled, surely the Professor knew that. "There is loads of planets because the moon and sun counts as planets right?"

Lily listened as the professor started the lesson. Planets... this could trigger some discussion. So Lily decided to raise her hand even though she couldn't decide whether to say the typical eight or say eleven because of the better know dwarf planets. "Depending on how you look at it, there could either be eight... or eleven. But I only know the names of nine..." Not exactly the best answer but it worked. As for the galaxy, "We live in the milkyway galaxy." That should suffice as an answer and might even trigger discussion.

Pshhh. Eight planets. Whatever. Ellie raised her hands instantly. "Professor, I personally like to include Pluto as a planet still. He's little and cute and his feelings are probably hurt now that they kicked him out. I mean, how you would feel if someone thought you were too inadequate for the human race? That's harsh."

And with that she leaned back in seat and crossed her arms over her chest. "Oh, and we're part of the Milky Way galaxy," she added.

Zhenya's arm shot up into the air, and she said "Professor the solar system is eight planets, five dwarf planets, and loads of other, smaller bodies that I don't think are classified as Planets. And our galaxy is called the Milky Way," she said. Oh, the milky way, it always reminded her of the delicious muggle candy bars. Maybe Professor Roslund would have some for the lesson, she thought.

She said Good evening to you too!

Ooo, she knew that one! She raised her hand and said There used to be nine planets but the scientists thought that Pluto was too little to be a planet so now there are eight planets in our Solar System. And the galaxy that we are in is the Milky Way Galaxy. Smiling happy she knew at least one anwser..yet.

Smiling to each student that entered and came near her, Kurumi was just about to show Lewis just what she was talking about with the movement of Mars on her charts when Professor Roslund spoke. Oh well, she would have to wait until after the lesson.

Thinking for a moment, Kurumi wanted to say nine. She still thought the whole kicking out of a certain planet because it was a little different was mean. But, they had already discussed the planet in a previous lesson when they had gone over dwarf planets as opposed your standard planets, so there really was no sense in arguing the matter at the moment even if she thought it was rubbish. Poor Pluto...and it totally ruined her favorite television program.

So, Kurumi raised her hand. "Our galaxy is called the Milky Way galaxy and is a spiral galaxy." Because she felt the need to include something extra since so many others had already answered. There were three types of galaxies after all, so it was important to know which was which. And then came the planet discussion. Kurumi KNEW what the logical and accepted answer of the day was, but she couldn't put her emotions aside for the poor planet. It was like her in a way. Belonging to a certain group but had somehow become the nail that stuck out and therefore had to be hammered down or removed. Well, you can't exactly force a planet cleared the neighborhood of its orbit. It just didn't work that way. So, hand back up in the air, Kurumi replied. "There are nine planets in our Solar System."

A dwarf PLANET was still a PLANET after all. It had the word in its name!

"It's called the Milky Way!" Sophie said happily. She had always found it to be a fun name. "And there are..." wait... people were saying eight, then the Gryffindor prefect - who did seem to always have the best answers - said there were nine. "there are... uh... n-nine planets? Eight? Nine?" Yep, she was completely confused now.

Nate went bam. I knew the answer to this question was the only thing going through his mind. He raised his hand and said "Professor there are currently eight planets. We had nine before pluto became a dwarf planet. Our galaxy is called the milky way galaxy." Nate was confident about his answer. He knew he couldn't mess any of this up. He learned a lot about this in muggle school.

Sierra just sat there as the 'hey's, hi's, and hello's' were going on. She wasn't much for such obvious friendliness, so she just kept quiet and occasionally eyed the professor as she waited for the lesson to begin. When it finally did, she adjusted her position and sat up a little straighter. Not so straight that she looked like an overeager Ravenclaw, but she didn't want to lose points for slacking off either. "There's eight planets, and we're in the Milky Way Galaxy," she said, her hand raised. Her answer was plain and simple. After all, that's all he'd asked for.

Raven tried to answer the question though today she was not in good condition. "Well, we live in Milky Way galaxy and there are 8 planets in this galaxy." she said after she raised her hand.

Elise smiled and pulled out her notebook. Yaaay! Astronomy! The awesomest class ever... After Herbology, of course. Right, down to business. How many planets. She'd answered the same question before, so she raised her hand.

"We have eight planets in the solar system," she grinned. "And five dwarf planets. And our galaxy's called the..." Milky something... Milky path? "The Milky way."

How did that take so long to figure out?

"I'm very good." Messer gave the Professor a wide smile back.

Messer was flipping his Astronomy notebook while waiting for the lesson to start. Then after Ella entered the classroom, Professor Roslund finally started the lesson with the first question about their galaxy. The first year raised his hand "Our galaxy is called the Milky Way and there are eight planets in the Solar system and five dwarf planets."he said.

Hmm how many planets are there? There has been that never ending controversy since Pluto was downgraded to a "non-planet" but then other worlds were discovered after it that was even smaller. The Ravenclaw pressed his lips together as he pondered a sufficient answer before raising his hand "Professor, there are 8 major planets in our solar system called the Milky way. The four inner planets are also called terrestrial planets and are compose of Mercury, Venus, our Earth and Mars. The other four planets are generally referred to as the outer planets and are substantially larger than the terrestrial planets. Of the four planets, two of these are called gas giants-- Jupiter and Saturn. The other two, Uranus and Neptune are usually referred to as ice giants." He paused for a moment, there was a part of him that didnt like Pluto's downgrading "Then there are other planets beyond the eight major planets called the Trans-Neptunian region. Pluto, which was once the 9th planet, belongs to this region. "

Janice raised her hand up after she did some thinking in her head.

"Our galaxy is the Milky Way and there are currently 8 planets in the solar system," she answered shortly.

Jory raised his hand. he knew the answer to this question. "There are eight planets, and five dwarf planets. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way,'' he said. As he said it, Jory wish he could have the chocolate bar named milky Way.

Daisy raised her hand, thinking of the poster she had of the stars and planets on her bedroom wall at home. She'd learnt all the planets names, but that seemed like too much detail to go into.
'Our galaxy is the milky way,' she began, thinking it looked nothing like milk, except for the colour, in a way, 'and there are eight planets. There were nine, then some muggle scientist decided there weren't,' She frowned, not understading why Pluto wasn't good enough to be a planet.

After finally settling in to his chair and getting his quill and parchment out, the Gryffindor looked up excitedly to see Professor Roslund taking his spot at the head of the classroom where he usually lectured. Not exactly expecting a question right off the bat, the lion set aside his poised quill and then raised his hand.

"Sir, the galaxy we live in is called the Milky Way, and including Earth, our own planet, it is made up of eight planets." There were tons of other bodies like comets and such but they weren't asked about them.

Daichi sat in the middle of the classroom and had his parchment rolled out to write notes on. But right now he was just staring in to the distance with his elbow on the table, supporting his chin. Class had already begun and the Slytherin tried to focus on the question.

He listened to the others answering first and heard the name Milky Way galaxy. A stupid grin spread on his lips as he raised his hand in the air. "Professor, Milky Way is also a muggle chocolate!" he said, his eyes were sparkling at the thought. But maybe he shouldn't talk too much about it seeing since Lafay had already snapped at him angerly in potions when they had chocolate..hehe...

So now he at least tried to answer the second question. "And there are eight or nine planets in our solar system, but i'm not sure..." he trailed off and bit his lip before going back to gazing off , thinkin about chocolate now and ducks...because ducks were always worth to think about~!

Tayla was eager to be in this class again. Professor Roslund was one of her favourite teachers. She raised her hand and answered, "There are eight major planets, Professor. And our galaxy is called 'The Milky Way'." She loved that name. It reminded her of a yummy chocolate bar in the Muggle world.