Kennedy made his way up to the Astronomy tower. Fiiiinally. The start of another term. This gave him some peace because it meant he'd be distracted from his real problems.

He entered the classroom and read the parchment. What was that in the bottles? Soda? Some strange substance that'll inflate him and make him float like a balloon? Hmm? Kennedy eyed the bottles carefully and took a green one, pretty obvious, no?

"Good day, Professor. Kennedy Escalante, at your service." he greeted the woman with a smile and, of course, offered his help. He was Head Boy (hence the badge).

He went to take a seat and eyed the classroom for Sierra, but didn't see her, so he sat down at a random seat next to a girl...a snake girl. He's seen her around in their common room. After placing the cup and bottle on the table, he shrugged his messenger bag off and took a quill out to write his name on the square provided.

Kennedy uncapped the bottle and poured some into his cup and sipped it slowly. After this summer, Kennedy didn't trust anything so easily. He then turned to the girl next to him. "What do you think this has to do with the lesson?" He was curious and wanted an opinion.

He took the empty cup from Louisa and poured some lime soda for himself. His lip twists into a slight wince at her worry "Uhm that.... may be inevitable. Although potty breaks would be the least of our worries-- all these sugar with already over-active youngsters? It would be like pixies driving the knight bus...." he murmurs. Oh and he sees Elijah sitting a few seats away looking at them. He raises his glass in a small toast to greet his best bud. Cheers!

Hannah made her way into class and spotted Elliot right away. Unfortunately she was with that silly Presley girl, but that didn't matter to her at all. Maybe she would get mad that Hannah was there at all and storm off! It would be nice if she would lose some points. Putting the evil thoughts aside from now she greeted the professor. "Hello Professor!" She grabbed a green bottle, plastic cup and plopped down beside Elliot. Hannah has never had something like this before to drink so she was interested.

Sierra nearly jumped a mile high when the professor released a very loud, somewhat obnoxious, greeting to the class. The sixth year glanced up from drinking her orange-colored drink, looked at the woman with wide eyes, and then glanced back down again.

Merlin. Please don't tell her this woman would be one of those professors. Guest professors tended to have strange teaching techniques, like Shaw, for example.

Sierra sipped a little more on her drink and waited quietly for things to get underway. She didn't care for mere chatter, especially seeing as she'd been so unlucky as to end up sandwiched between two Puffers.

Her addition to the seating chart had said:

Sierra Greingoth
6th year
Slytherin

Presley smiled genuinely at Elliot's friend. The fish girl that Elliot had had the fued with two years ago. She shook the girls hand. "Presley Black" She emphasized her last name. She was still a descendent of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, no matter what her father might want. "It's nice to meet you too, Jayden."


Presley was furious! With herself, fr forgetting to read the rules, and losing points for Ravenclaw, and with the professor for caring so much. Pres wanted to say Don't you know who I am? In the real world, I matter so much more than you ever will. But she didn't. She couldn't lose more points. All of Ravenclaw would be furious with her. They were still in the negatives.

So Presley smiled sweetly. "I'm so sorry, Professor Burbage. I've just been so caught up in coming back that I forgot to read the rules. I'll go change this instant and be right back." After all, the Astronomy tower wasn't that far from her common room. And truthfully, she had entirely forgotten about uniforms in her year at Beauxbatons. She stood up, sending a sharp glare at Jayden, so the girl wouldn't be tempted to steal Presley's seat.


And Elliot started to talk to her. Um...not dressed up Elliot! Dressed normally. By Presley standards this was practically casual attire. And after the professor yelled at her, even Elliot was sending evil glares at Presley. "Yeah, don't worry about it. I'm not smiley anymore." And with that, Presley strode out of the room to change and come back.

Jayden glared at Elliot. "Seriously, that joke is getting SOOO old!" She hissed shaking her head at Elliot. "Way to be immature, Elliot. Perhaps you need to go back and take more etiquette classes." She added, smiling smugly over at her frenemie.


Stupid Lacey.

The young Gryffindor hurried to the first class she had at Hogwarts, which was conveniently Astronomy, a subject she like at muggle schools but here in the magical world she had no clue what to expect!!! Then she noticed the fizzy drink immediately upon her entrance... normally she never drank fizzy drinks... her mother wouldn't let her!

Still, to make it look like she wasnt a mix between happy and nervous she flashed a large grin at the professor. "Good afternoon Professor Burbage" she said with the biggest, happiest, most welcoming smile. Apparently this professor was also new... Like Angel!!!

Seeing the given instructions she happily half skipped onver to a square and began writing.

Moving over to the fizzy drinks she grabbed herself a bottle quickly along with a cup sitting herself in a vacant chair as she poured maybe a mouthful of the substance in her cup, taking a tiny sip of it happily. The bubbles made her giggle slightly before she managed to contain them. It tasted as good as she remembered it though!

As Em was sitting there finishing up her second cup of soda, she caught sight of something she wished she hadn’t. It was that dunderhead Elijah sucking up to the professor. When he started walking towards her she groaned inwardly. She decided it was best just to let him go find his seat, and forget about him. She poured herself another cup of the cola, and took a sip of it, willing herself to behave as he passes. Only, instead of passing her, he took the seat next to her. This is just great, She thought to herself, as she tried to ignore her housemate. But she couldn’t, as soon as he had poured himself a glass of his soda, he started talking to her.

The girl listened as he started apologizing, but her head snapped to look at him when he got to the crisis bit. “A crisis, really?” she said coolly, keeping her voice low. The whole platform had been in a state of crisis. From the injured kids, to the girl herself, who had been panicking from the very beginning, but putting on a brave face and trying to stay focused. “And how, pray tell, did I let down my gender?” Because really, that one was lost on her. And why oh why did she need to be forgiven? This boy was digging fast.

Aaaaand Presley was back from changing. The best part was, she was still ontime. Which was good because Professor Burbage was probably really mad at Presley, and would love an excuse to take an extra couple of points for tardiness. She slipped back into her seat between Jayden and Elliot, who seemed to be having a disagreement...over snoring it sounded like? Who cared? Not Presley for sure. And after that whole thing over uniforms, Presley wasn't going to drink a drop of her soda. Particularly because it seemed that the professor very much wanted them to.

Genevieve lingered over the seating chart a lot longer than she did over the bottles of soda. She even spent time memorizing where the people she knew where, followed by the people she ought to know, followed by the people she was glad she didn't know, and so on. Hmm. This was a big class.

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Genevieve Branxton, PMA
7th year
Ravenclaw

She took a page out of her Aunt Anj's book and took only the bottled soda, no cup... the soda was sealed, but the cup wasn't. She'd just drink it right out of the bottle, thanks so much.

Those she knew got eyebrows, but Genevieve dropped into a desk near Sierra Greingoth, fellow stricken party-goer from that fancy soiree over the summer. "Greingoth."

This was all quite entertaining. Now that she was in class she was forced to sit in one place--not the best situation for the 11 year old but hey, she had fizzy drinks and some great conversations to eavesdrop on. Yup.

For a brief moment her eyes glanced down at the bottle she had been subconsciously pouring liquid from.

O____O

Lex wasn't sure she was supposed to have reduced it to so little but...uh...crud. Maybe she could sneak another bottle from the table if it turned out that they needed most of the liquid to still be in the bottle...yeah...that could work...she would just smoothly slip out of her seat, snatch and sit before the lady even noticed. Brilliant Lex! Now she could enjoy some more!

Alice hurried into the Astronomy tower and beamed at the Professor. "Good morning, Professor.." Person. She didn't look familiar. The lioness resisted the urge to ask her awkward questions about who she was and why she was here. Instead, she read the piece of parchment that had the class instructions. She had missed Astronomy over the summer.. twas definitely one of the most interesting classes Hogwarts offered. After pouring some lemon-lime soda into a cup and finding her seat on the chart the visiting Professor had put up, Alice found her seat and plopped down in it. Hastily, she scribbled her name on a scrap of parchment. And succeeded in not doodling little crowns in the corner of her paper.

Afterwards, as instructed, she sipped her soda.

It was fizzy.



Was that all? Could she go now?

Arabella-Marie looked about at her classmates asmebled and continued to drink her soda but she knew that the rate the class were going she would not have been surprised if half of them needed to dissapear to the toilet after class has finished

Laura wasn't really in the talking mood but she decided to ask the Professor a question whilst waiting for the lesson too start. "Professor did you have a good holiday?" Laura hoped she had, she then decided to have some of her drink, since she was getting thirsty.

:: Ganymede grabbed a paper and a bottle pulled out a quill from her bag and sat down. She popped open the drink and took a sip. It was kind of minty and sweet. She scribbled her information down...

She took another swig and Buurrrrrrp!
"Oh my, Excuse me!" She covered her mouth and blushed deeply. This is why she never drank soda. By Aldur, she better not pass gas. ::

Jared ran into the room. Looking around, he relaxed, seeing that he wasn't late. Surveying the class, he saw Jayden and Elliot sitting together, playfully arguing as usual. He stopped for a moment and admired his girlfriend. Her hair flowed beautifully down her back, and her eyes sparkled majestically. She was so pretty, even when she was "mad" at Elliot. Smiling, Jared silently walked up behind her. "Boo!" Jared grabbed her shoulders, shaking her ever so slightly.

Yep. It was about that time...to learn things and pretend pay attention. His specialty.

Dylan entered the classroom with his usual swagger in place and a smirk on his face. There was no reason to let everyone know how distraught he was about...things. Yep, for all intents and purposes, the Slytherin was a typically happy teenage boy with minimal problems and good looks.

...Or so he'd been told.

Writing his name down and grabbing the orange soda / cup combo, he took a seat. After getting his little area set up with the necessary supplies and his wand, Dylan leaned back, waiting for class to begin.

Naturally as he did this, winks were thrown as random girls throughout the room.

Single was WIN.

"Oh Jared!" You scared me!" Jayden laughed, looking at him quizzically. "Remember to sign in... otherwise you could lose some house points! We wouldn't want that now? Would we?" She teased. "Although loss of house points would result in a better advantage for Ravenclaw...." She smiled, her eyes filled with mischief.

Delilah was picking at the rim of her cup, not really paying much attention as to what was going on. There was still a little while left before the lesson started anyway, right?

...

Hmm?

She looked to her side, raising her eyebrows to see that someone had sat next to her. Not just any someone, either. Kennedy. The Slytherin's opinion on the boy was a little biased, because of Aurora... but Aurora was also... yeah.

"I... Maybe it's for -- Something. ... I don't have a clue... I... I don't know." Delilah said, looking at her own bottle. "I just hope we're not going to be expected to drink all of it." Eugh.

After a moment, she looked at Kennedy properly. "Congrats, by the way." She gestured to his Head Boy badge.

His friend caught his eye and raised a glass as if to toast him. Elijah raised his own glass to return the favour and downed the rest of the soda he had remaining before his attention was taken by the Hufflepuff sitting next to him.

SPOILER!!: Emmaleigh

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Originally Posted by Yourenodaisy

As Em was sitting there finishing up her second cup of soda, she caught sight of something she wished she hadn’t. It was that dunderhead Elijah sucking up to the professor. When he started walking towards her she groaned inwardly. She decided it was best just to let him go find his seat, and forget about him. She poured herself another cup of the cola, and took a sip of it, willing herself to behave as he passes. Only, instead of passing her, he took the seat next to her. This is just great, She thought to herself, as she tried to ignore her housemate. But she couldn’t, as soon as he had poured himself a glass of his soda, he started talking to her.

The girl listened as he started apologizing, but her head snapped to look at him when he got to the crisis bit. “A crisis, really?” she said coolly, keeping her voice low. The whole platform had been in a state of crisis. From the injured kids, to the girl herself, who had been panicking from the very beginning, but putting on a brave face and trying to stay focused. “And how, pray tell, did I let down my gender?” Because really, that one was lost on her. And why oh why did she need to be forgiven? This boy was digging fast.

"Yes! A crisis," he said frustrated that the girl clearly was not understanding that his messed up hair was far more important than a bunch of stupid students who didn't know how to use a portkey and in turn gave themselves some boo boos.

"You weren't carrying a mirror," he responded simply to her second question, equally distressed by the fact he seemed to have to state the obvious. Was this girl dim? Probably. He considered swapping seats. It was evident he wouldn't be copying off her papers incase she gave him a far worse grade than what he was capable of giving himself.

Ariella took a deap breath before entering the astronomy classroom which was already bursting full of students. She was slightly nervous, but Ari thinks it's just because this is her very first class ever at Hogwarts!! EEEEP! She was just so excited! The first thing Ariella did once she had entered was nod towards her professor. She then noticed the seating chart and grabbed a quill, dipped it in some ink and wrote...

Ariella Day, First Year, Ravenclaw

Satisfied with what she wrote down, Ari gladly accepted some soda and took her seat. Every once in a while she would take a tiny sip as she studied her classmate from around the room...

So, she didn't know. That was okay, Kennedy was just curious if anyone shared his imagination. He shrugged an took another sip of his green-whatever-it-was. "Maybe we are..." another sip, "...what if we have to drink it all and it makes up float up into the sky?" Hmm? "You know...like in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? Have you heard of that?" he asked, because many people he knew were a bit foreign with the muggle world.

Kennedy glance down at his badge when the Slytherin mentioned it. "Thanks," he grinned and stretched his hand to her. "Kennedy Escalante," and she was? Because calling her Slytherin Girl wouldn't do.

This was it, her first lesson ever. Faye stopped in and prepared herself for this moment. She wasn't sure what was going to happen but she was ready and prepared for it.

She filled out her slip of paper and looked around to see if there was anything that she was missing.

"Hello Professor." She added with a smile as the Professor passed by her.

Awarlesta made her way into the Astronomy tower, she practically ran here. Astronomy was something she was looking for. She sat down and wrote on her name square.

Awarlesta Black
First Year
Hufflepuff

She took a sip of her soda and smiled, looking around.

Delilah looked at the boy blankly. What is he talking about?? "Um... what?" ... Wait. Delilah KNEW that! It was a book, and OLD book. "Ohhh! I ... yes! I've read that!" She grinned. Well, her dad had read it TO her, when she was about six or seven, but she still kind of knew the story. The girl looked up at the ceiling. No scary fans to chop them all to pieces. "... What if the fizzy drinks do do that, and it's so we can go and study the stars a bit closer...?"

Yes, it was a silly idea... but Delilah liked it.

When he introduced himself, Delilah smiled shyly "I know who you are..." Oh. But he didn't know who she was, did he! "I'm Delilah... O'Flanagan." Not that her surname really mattered... but still...