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His eyes quickly returning to his piece of parchment to copy down what the professor was telling them about alchemists, Lewis was glad that he HAD in fact already read a little bit about the subject. He might even ask Professor Schirmer where she'd studied Alchemy and why she'd instead decided to teach Charms and work at the Ministry now. Was the subject not as interesting as it sounded? Lewis raised his hand when she asked them about alchemists they'd heard of. "There's Cleopatra." He'd read about her since he'd always thought it was funny how she had the same name as- Oh, maybe he should clarify a little there actually. "N-not the Egyptian Queen. Though, she was from Egypt too. And I think Cleopatra wasn't her real name actually." But none of that had anything to do with her achievements. "She's said to have been one of the people who knew how to make the Philosopher's Stone." One of the few women actually. |
SPOILER!!: Schirmer He sat unblinking when the blonde considered his question Only if she was so inclined and had time to spare... He nodded his head and thanked her. At least it wasnt a flat out no, but he had remind himself that the former Charms Professor does work for the Ministry now. Famous Alchemists? Vickers clenched his eyes shut, trying to remember the name he was forgetting earlier..... the guy had such a long name he ended up with a moniker of his own making. After tossing a few clue words in his head he finally got his answer. Up goes the hand "Professor, that alchemist I referred earlier-- the one who believed that Alchemy should primarily be used for creating medicinal cures --his name was Paracelsus. " |
Ella copied down some more notes, scribbling madly as she tried to retain most of the information being thrown at her. It was a lot, that was for sure, but the second year really enjoyed the wealth of new information coming her way. Hopefully she would take away some good information and be able to use it in the future. While waiting for the handout, Ella thought about the famous alchemists that she had read about during her many trips to the library. There was one in particular that she remembered...someone from the middle ages. "Professor, Albertus Magnus was a monk and I believe he was the one who first identified arsenic...which I guess is kind of unfortunate because isn't that-or wasn't it used a lot for murder?" *Shudder* |
Ira furiously and diligently copied down all or almost all that she could copy, into her parchment. Then looking up, she watched Professor Scabior sneak into the class and stand behind them. What was he doing her? ANd then she soon got her answer as Professor Schrirmer explained. So.. history of alchemy was somewhat easier to understand. This was one question and one part of he lesson that Ira understood and knew something. She raised her hand up and answered, "Professor there's Pseudo-Geber.." Yeah.. a false name, because, no one knew who the actual scientist was, though there were some speculations. "He was the one who first discovered Aqua Regia" |
Belle was listening to all her classmates volunteering information about Alchemists. She didn't know any but she kept taking notes about what her classmates were saying. She was glad the professor put a charm on her quill to help her take notes. She was just happy to be learning about a new subject. |
Merlin! Charlit responded. Not to mention That this was a difficult agonizing question to answer, and Merlin was the only person of whom Charlit thought might have used alchemy. He was a famous wizard, but seemed very framiliar with the future so alchemy was probably somewhat involved in his work. |
Desiree added on to her notes and waited for a handout to come to her. At least this time she was actually able to follow what Professor Schrirmer was saying. She felt like she should contribute something, so she twirled her quill thinking.. She raised her hand, "Professor, Salomon Trismosin was a legendary German alchemist and teacher of the equally famous Paracelsus, who invented spagyric alchemy" which the professor mentioned earlier, "Salomon is probably most famous.." she thought for a second, "for his book, Splendor Solis, which talks about the Philosopher's stone" Which she hadn't read.. but it was in her sister's bookcase. |
Alyssa looked through her textbook but was having problems finding another person that she had not already named until she remembered someone very very very old back who lived in Greece. So she raised her hand and answered. "There was this man called Zosimus of Panapolis. He lived sometime around early mid 200-300 A.D. Anyway, he collected all the knowledge about the subject and wrote a 28 volume encyclopedia about it. These are believed to be the oldest known books regarding Alchemy." She paused to think what purpose that served. Then she remembered, "It was because of him that we know what we do about Egyptian/Greek alchemy." |
Sophie should have known this seminar thing wasn't going to be too practical. Alchemy did have a lot of theory theory theoryy! And Sophie wasn't fond of theory... It had reached a point where Sophie wasn't even listening to what professor Schirmer was saying. Poor thing, she had always listened carefully to her words, since the older witch was always talking about Charms before. Not anymore... and Sophie didn't feel like trying to understand this whole thing anymore. She knew she could follow what she was saying - it was pretty much Alchemy for dummies, right? -, but she... didn't feel like it. So she sat there, doodling on her parchment and glancing sometimes at her friend Theodore, who was sitting next to her. |
Did Emmanuelle know any other famous alchemists? Well, besides the two that had been excluded and the already mentioned Nicholas Flamel, no. She kept silent while finishing her notes (trying to make them as easy to read as possible in the process) and listened as closely as possible to her classmates. She was glad some of them were getting it, because the class was flying almost right over her head! She was glad that it was just a lecture and not a required class because yikes! |
just quote this post to get your handouts guys :3 Rising from her seat "I....believe....that....Chang Tao Ling.....was....an....alchemist..." Kurumi huffed as she attempted to stable herself and the papers. Turning around, slowly, the sixth year began to walk, almost waddling like a penguin with the stack of papers in her arms, around the classroom. "If you could just take the topmost handout," she instructed as she passed each student. There was no way she was going to risk removing one of her hands and having the entire stack scatter all over the room. The windows were closed, right? SPOILER!!: symbol handouts |
Text Cut: Tegz Okayyyy. Sierra didn't know any of the people currently being named. This was her first experience with Alchemy ever. Well, except... ...there was that time. Hmm... "Professor Althea Schirmer," she said, raising her hand. "That's my answer I mean. I've never really had any experiences with Alchemy. Only the ones I've had with you, so...you're my answer." Lowering her hand, she added, "So I guess I'll share why your accomplishments stand out to me. You once gave us an assignment to take care of a metal egg. I thought it was useless at first, but in the end, it really helped me understand more about the properties of metal." She shrugged. "I don't get too overly excited about things, but I thought the fact that we all got a metal animal in the end was pretty cool." Her's had been a metal porcupine that shot actual spikes. Perfect metal creature for Sierra. Brilliant, it had been. |
Text Cut: Kurumi As Emmanuelle continued to copy notes, Kurumi began her rounds with the worksheets When she got to her table, Emmanuelle took one of the sheets off the top of the pile as quickly and carefully as possible, so as not to cause the sheets to fall. When she looked down at the sheet that was now in her possession, she was sure her brain was going to melt. Were they going to have memorize all of this?! Because Emmanuelle wasn't sure she could. There were just too many symbols! |
Text Cut: Kurumi Nigel was just listening to other peoples answers when the gryffindor prefect started handing out papers. Well since the teacher as condoning it Nigel had to take one. Nigel was surprised and really confused by what he saw on the paper. He thought maybe symbols, but he had never seen theses types of symbols before. Mhmm.. maybe the Professor will tell the class later what is on these notes, thought Nigel. |
SPOILER!!: Kurumi Ella continued to take notes while her classmates gave their answers but was a bit distracted when the Gryffindor prefect walked towards her chair with a rather GIANT stack of handouts. Poor girl, that pile was definitely going to cause back problems or something! She gave the older girl a smile as she took the topmost handout from the pile, careful not to knock any over. "Thanks." She said cheerfully before placing the handout down on her desk and trying to figure out what the heck it all meant. |
SPOILER!!: symbol handouts/Krumi "Thank you Kurumi, Charlit said with a smile, as she Picked up a sheet off the top of the pile. She scanned the sheet over and used an adhesion spell to stick it like glue to a page in her journal. So now it looked like it was printed on the page like a book. |
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Annabelle took the handouts from then nice girl handing them out. "Thank you." she said as she took a handout. She was confused as to what the symbols meant on the paper. Hopefully the professor would explain soon. |
SPOILER!!: Kurumi/Handout Desiree smiled and grabbed the top handout as the Gryffindor passed her, "Thanks". Setting it on her desk she skimmed over the symbols, or should she say gibberish. At least when she got to the bottom it had the English translations.. but still. She was pretty befuddled, ya not confused, befuddled, she liked it better. Anyway she was just going to wait for the Professor to explain. |
Jory raised his hand. "There's Acharya Nagarjuna, Professor,'' he said after listening to a few students giving their replies. "He's well known for founding a School of Buddhism.'' Quote:
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They had been told NOT to repeat answers, but she hadn't paid attention to what others were saying, and apparently, Newton had already been crossed out. Boy, did she feel stupid. |
SPOILER!!: Kurumi As Kurumi came around, Zhenya took the top piece of paper off the pile and said "Thanks Kurumi," and put it in front of her. It looked very complicating so she just put it to the side without really looking at it. If she did look at it, she would probably cry in frustration. This subject wasn't making a whole lot of sense, but slowly she was understanding it bit by bit. And now, naming one? She didn't know anything about Alchemy, let alone any individuals. She kept quiet, as she had done the entire lesson, and just wanted to band her head forward onto the table, but she stopped herself from doing this. What she really wanted is to just understand it. But... she couldn't make herself understand it until she could get her hands on a book and read it, that would make some of it sink in she was sure. |
SPOILER!!: Handout Alyssa waited until Kurumi approached her and took a sheet off the stack. Said,"Thanks." before looking at the sheet and then went back to listening to what the other students and Professor were saying. |
Let's try this again. *stupidly closed my reply tab before I finished it* Text Cut: Kurumi Text Cut: notes Stella was back to just silently taking notes. She'd smiled at Professor Schirmer's response to her earlier suggestion, especially since it seemed her random tangent back to the Latin and Greek phrases hadn't seemed to irritate the woman. She'd been worried, but then now she was back to not being sure of the subject again. At least, she wasn't sure she could name any alchemists that hadn't already been mentioned, and so she was choosing to stay quiet. It seemed easier than any other option, at least, and that way she could focus on getting everything copied down into her notes. Her attention had wavered as Sierra had actually offered the professor herself as a famous alchemist, though, and she'd glanced over at the Slytherin girl. That wasn't exactly something she would have expected, especialy as it made her wonder if the former Charms professor knew she still carried Oberon around everywhere. In fact, the tiger was curled up in her school bag at that very moment. She wasn't going to interrupt the lesson just to say that, in any case, and next thing she knew Kurumi had appeared next to her carrying a stack of handouts. That looked rather precarious, so she carefully slid one off the top of the stack before giving the Gryffindor prefect a smile. "Thank you, Kurumi," she said quietly, not wanting to speak too loudly and get in trouble. She wasn't about to not be polite, either, and she hoped the professor would excuse her if she wasn't supposed to talk. Either way, she went back to her notes after she'd gotten the handout, waiting to see what was going to be discussed next. Oddly, I think I recognize at least a few of these names, she thought, eyes scanning the list of symbols and names once she'd set her quill down for a moment. It made her feel a bit better.[/COLOR] |
Kurumi :) Minerva threw her hand up, she might not know much about this subject, but there were other things she liked to read and she remembered. "Professor I read once that Albus Dumbledore was one." She then turned noticing the Kurumi skipped over her."Kurumi, can I have a handout please?" She didn't mind that she skipped over her with this many students it was bound to happen to someone, so if it was Minerva then it was Minerva no big deal. |
SPOILER!!: Kurumi and handouts He waited for Kurumi to walk by his row then reached out for a handout. His eyes grew large, not in alarm, but at the sheer information held within its pages. Cue geekout mode? Why yes. |
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