Ok...what is the incantation again? Explaeris? what no...that wasn't right. "Explay......oh no..." She stated it and nearly blew her self off her feet. Nope, that was the wrong spell.....lets try again.

"Explaerim" And and her wand fell right out of her hand again....jeepers, this was not going so well for her....Faye really needed to get a move one, she could already see some of the other kids set their rockets off and she wanted to do that soo bad she could cry.

"Explaeris!!!" Faye jumped up and down in excited...yes yes yes...she said it right. She was so happy........now just to practice those wand movements....Faye was almost there!

Laura looked at the rocket. "This is ground control to Hyde 1, prepare for countdown." Laura smiled before replying to herself. "This is Hyde1 to ground control, all systems are operational." Laura smiled as she thought that her countdown to take off was going great. "This is ground control t-minus 5 minutes to lift off." Laura giggled this was so fun. "This is Hyde1 to ground control, t-minus 5 minutes okay, everything is A-okay at this end."

Laura looked at her instruction now she had to practice the incatation. "Exp..laer...im." Well it sounded right but she had to sort this out. "This is ground control to Hyde1, we have a few problems this end but don't worry everything is A-okay for launch." Laura smiled. "This is Hyde1 to ground control, hurry up all system are go at this end."

Laura decided to try the incantation again. "Explaerim." Laura smiled she had said it right. "Explaerim, Explaerim, Explaerim." Well this was good, she was finally getting things right, now she had to make sure she knew what she was doing. "This is ground control to Hyde1, we are a-okay this end, t-minus 4 minutes to lift off." Laura was really enjoying this. "This is Hyde1 to ground control. "All system are still A-okay."

Yawn.

The theory class was so much boring for Gary, especially in the afternoon. But lucky that he wasn't asleep at the class. But thankfully that the old lady asked them to move to the courtyard.

Okay, what would they do here? Playing hide and seek?

Well.. Whatever.

The blonde guy walked to the courtyard with his bottle rocket on his hand. It looked a bit messed up since he never being good in craft things. But at least it was worked, right? No matter how awful it looked. And now they would test the rocket if it worked or not. Gary listened to the Professor's explanation about how to launch their bottle rocket. It did look simple. Very simple. But...

O________O

FLAPPING your arms? Meh? That looked so.. ridiculous.

The first step is filling the bottle with water. He flicked his wand to the bottle. "Aguamenti." and filled the bottle. While he was busy with the rocket, he noticed that a Ravenclaw girl who stared at him at the class. Who was she actually?

"Oh, Hi." said him short while his blue eyes still paid attention to the rocket. "I think I'm fine now." How could she knew his name and why she asked him like that, huh?

Her bottle filled with the right amount of water, Sarah made her way to the bottle launcher. She was doing admirably well keeping herslef from laughing, the teacher was a riot... And she blamed Hufflepuff... the puffs were always the innocent one, people usually accuse the Slytherins first...
She put her rocket in the launcher making all systems check. Seeing that it was properly attatched, she took out her wand, she needed to practice the spell first.

Professor Burbage was really going crazy! First the flapping, which looked very very silly *giggle* and now the 100 points deduction from poor Alyssa for Aparecium! Tehehe! Whatever it be, the truth was the truth now, wasn't it? Ira stared as Kurumi and Beezus tried explaining the not-so-old-still-young Professor. Clearly, Professor needed to age gracefully like her own grandmother. But still, whatever it was, it was fun to watch. This lesson was proving to be a lot more fun than Ira had thought before.

Anyways, back to rocket! Ira had half listened to Professor's instructions about it, and so now had to rely on observing others. She knew she was starting work late, but then that meant she would just have to work faster. Yeah, work fast she could.

She looked down in her notes, which she had quickly jotted down. First, fill up the rocket with water. Taking her wand out of her pocket, Ira pointed it inside the bottle and muttered "Aguamenti", and watched as water began collecting inside the bottle. She took care to see that water did not go over the halfway level. Water filled! Done!

West was aware of the dramalamas around him -and privately thought that people were dumb to question the professor or defend that Alyssa girl when she was acting like a big baby- but obviously ROCKETS were more important, but also, a thought was bothering him, scratching at his mind, begging to be questioned and wondered about.

West was ever-obliging to such things, and his expression was thoughtful, even as he listened to the instructions.

Explaeris?

West decided to practice saying that outloud a few times as he went over to a launching station. CLAIMED. IT WAS HIS.

"Explaeris. Ex-plae-ris. Explaaaaeris. Ex-plae-ris. Explaeris." Sounded right? West examined his bottle. But didn't put water in it yet, on account of all the thinky thoughts that had him so engrossed.

Haha 100 points? Reminded her of Joao. And made her want to shoot a rocket at the Head Girl.

Ah memories.

Unfortunately, the Professor turned the points loss over before anyone began to really panic. Rockets and panic, and hopefully Gary Rush Vomit, would have made things a little more Hogwartians.

SPOILER!!: GARY

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Originally Posted by RandomRaven

Yawn.

The theory class was so much boring for Gary, especially in the afternoon. But lucky that he wasn't asleep at the class. But thankfully that the old lady asked them to move to the courtyard.

Okay, what would they do here? Playing hide and seek?

Well.. Whatever.

The blonde guy walked to the courtyard with his bottle rocket on his hand. It looked a bit messed up since he never being good in craft things. But at least it was worked, right? No matter how awful it looked. And now they would test the rocket if it worked or not. Gary listened to the Professor's explanation about how to launch their bottle rocket. It did look simple. Very simple. But...

O________O

FLAPPING your arms? Meh? That looked so.. ridiculous.

The first step is filling the bottle with water. He flicked his wand to the bottle. "Aguamenti." and filled the bottle. While he was busy with the rocket, he noticed that a Ravenclaw girl who stared at him at the class. Who was she actually?

"Oh, Hi." said him short while his blue eyes still paid attention to the rocket. "I think I'm fine now." How could she knew his name and why she asked him like that, huh?

Of course Aspen knew his name. He was Gary, he was in a relationship with apples, and he was a Slytherin.

She took her plastic fangs out to speak to him.

"I think water is a boring rocket fuel," Aspen didn't waste time getting right to it. "I want you to throw up in my bottle and we can see if my rocket goes higher. With the acidity of all those apples - how many HAVE you had today? - mixed with the acid from the sodas... Maybe it'll just blow up. But that's more interesting than water."

So. Gary. Puke in this bottle, k? Aspen held her black bottle out to him. "I can help you throw up if you can't on your own."

Now the spell. Sarah decided to concentrate on the incantation first, as her tounge often got twisted when she said the spell words. "ex-plae-ris" she said, surprisingly it was clear, yet she tried a few more time in order to et it a bit less garbled. "explaeris,explaeris,explaeris," That was it... she was getting better at it each time. Soon she could move on to the wand movement and then put it all together. 'explaeris' she said, this was the tenth time she had said the spell so she was ready for the next part.

Laura looked at her rocket. "This is ground control to Hyde1, are all systems A-okay?" Laura smiled as she looked at her rocket launched. "EVERYONE CLEAR THE RUNWAY." Laura was really enjoying this. "T-minus 4 minutes and counting." Laura thought this was cool. "This is Hyde1 to ground control, main systems are A-okay." Laura smiled. "This is Hyde1 to ground control fuel system warning." Laura sighed. "This is ground control to Hyde1 everything is A-okay this end, is it okay that end now?" Laura was loving this. "This is Hyde1 to ground control false alarm there everything is now A-Okay for launch." Laura smiled now though she needed to learn the wand movement for this rocket to blast off into space.

Oh there was his sister, trying to make Gary puke. Seems legit.

"Aaaaspen? Can you put water in my bottle? I don't know how to do that aguamenti spell yet." On account of it was conjuring. Conjuring wasn't easy. He was just twelve after all.

He did know it was supposed to be only partly full, so he'd make sure of that much.

Aspen put her fangs back in to consider her little brother. And consider him she did, the long, thoughtful sort.

"Have you tried yourself? I know it's advanced, but you should try it. Garba... I mean Burbage didn't say you couldn't try. Point your wand at the ground the first time. Aguamenti. It's useful so try."

Laura was just about to practice the wand movement when she realised something she hadn't given instruction to her rocket. "This is the captain of Hyde1, we hope you have a great flight, and we hope you will enjoy flying with Hyde airlines." Laura smiled, "In case of an emergency, we will do our best to bring us down safetly, and once again thank you for chosing Hyde Airlines." Laura smiled.

"This is Hyde1 to ground control, everything is opperational at this end, we are waiting on your countdown." Laura was loving this, it was like sooooooo cool and she wasn't doing anything naughty just having a bit of fun. "This is Ground Control, we are nearly ready, t-minus 3 minutes and counting, just going over the last few checks." Laura smiled as she took out her wand it was time to start practicing for the biggest launch in history of the world, okay so it wasn't that big but a girl could dream right.

"But ROCKETS, Aspen!" He could launch FASTER if there was just SUDDENLY water in his bottle rocket! But SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH. SIIIIIGH. GRUMBLE!SIGH.

Fine. FIIIIIIIINE.

He held his wand steady. Point it at the ground?

"Aguamenti!" ... two drops.

..... not enough for a bottle.

Dylan was about to attach his bottle rocket to his launcher when his ears were attacked by an angry professor asking about some parchment, which made him drop his bottle rocket "Oh great! now I have to fill it up again!" cause of some professor who got a bit touchy over some parchement, upon looking at it he realised it was one of those dumb Aparecium archments. Hah! looks like she ended up in there? then he must have a read of that article to see why she made him drop his bottle rocket which he hopes no-one saw cause that was one of those things that shouldn't be seen.

His eyes went wide when she started accusing some older girl of writing the stuff and took a ... WHAT!? 100 Points?!! wow that was a bit excessive wasn't it? just over some article, remind him to never mention that article cause he wasn't up for having that kind of professor looking down at him. He wondered what Alexa would say about that, her house losing so many points cause of an older puff. Where was Alexa anyways? he hadn't seen her around lately, maybe he needed to owl her or something to see where she was. He then watched the older puff run off and the professor saying that 10points would be taken for leaving the class.

He then went back to his bottle rocket which he had to fill again! cause of Angry professor over there. Now what was the incantation again Aquamenti? no no it wasnt that.. Agua... Agua... mennttii no it was a little shorter than that so Agua.. mnti.. nope didn't sound right. Oh man he just had it.. he had just filled the bottle..well thank you Professor now he had to figure out the incantation again and fill the bottle. Just then he heard someone say the incanation.. well thank you whoever that was that helped. That was it Aguamenti.. right time to fill the bottle again and this time.. let him attach the bottle the launcher thing first!

Zack was waiting for a few minutes before he went for the second step. He looked around to see what every one was doing. This he got a grip on the whole thing that was going around the class. Now they had to fix the rocket launcher and then say the spell and start flapping. Now that part was a bit funny. He thought how he would look flapping his arm like a bird.

But what ever that may be it was a part of the activity to make his rocket bottle launch and he wanted to see that to his rocket very much. So he quickly picked up which ever launcher he saw first and hastily turned the launcher upside down and fixed it to his bottle and then corrected it;s position to see if there was any leakage. Satisfied he smiled at the ting and then prepared for the third step.

Elijah BEAMED. Of course he was right, and it seemed as if his fellow Huffie was being very kind to his new favourite, Professor Burbage. He hoped she'd appreciate the nice, caring words from her ex-house...

SPOILER!!: Crazy Burbage

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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage

Marion was no longer flapping, she was FLAILING now at the oooooooooobviously lowering standards at Hogwarts. The Board of Governors would hear about this. Annie would hear about this...SHE WAS GOING TO SEND THE CULPRIT TO THE MOON!

One way ticket, darlings, one way ticket.

"Oh, that is awfully kind of you to say dear," she said as she patted the studmuffin in the making on the shoulder rather FIRMLY.


Marion huffed and puffed and blew a few bottle rockets down. "YOU were in this RUBBISH too Miss Branxton?" she exclaimed. WHY THE NEEEEEEEEERVE....

Marion's eyebrow twitched and a vein in her forehead began to protrude a little more than it should. Actually, A LOT more than it should.

"MISS POTTER," she said, jabbing her finger in the girl's direction. This girl was laying on the compliments faaaaaaaaaaaar to thick for her liking and was oooooooooooooooobviously trying to cover something up. LIKE WRITING THIS ARTICLE.
"100 points from Hufflepuff for writing this BLASPHEMY!"

The woman was practically snorting now only she somehow managed to compose herself just long enough to turn to the rest of the class with a pixie like grin on her face. "CARRY ON DEARS! You are all doing marvelously. Just keep flapping and doooooo be sure that you are the one who cast the spell or else it will not work."

As in no one person casting the spell and the other flapping.

... or maybe not. 100 points!? That seemed a bit much. Elijah didn't normally care for the house point race, but to have taken THAT number of points from someone when she didn't really have evidence... Although, it was slightly funny. Just a little bit. Burbage HAD officially flipped the lid. Elijah imagined he'd have quite similar fears in regards to aging when he got to Burbage's oldness. Perhaps she was 100 and that's why she took off that many points?

SPOILER!!: Alexa

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Whoooaaa....

Who would have thought the Professor would go wild for something like that? It was obviously just a joke being played by a very hilarious immature person though after seeing the reaction of the Professor had to some other responses on that particular topic she decided to keep her opinions to herself....

Merlin! 100 points?! That had to be over kill or something!! Even Lex could tell that the girl had nothing to do with the article thingy--and she was a pretty oblivious person most times! Not wanting to get in the way of the woman's wrath she turned back to her rocket that hadn't gone swoosh like everyone else's. Her brows crinkled as she looked down at it wondering whether or not Pretty Boy had done the spell right when she heard the Professor saying you had to cast the spell yourself.

...

It seemed that she would never get a break.

"Hmm...if that's the case then I guess I don't need you anymore." Lex said, looking up at him but quickly losing interest; he no longer held many opportunities for her. "Thanks for getting water in my rocket but I'm guessing you'll have to do your own flapping if what the Professor said is true." Which it was seeing as her rocket was still there.

She turned to the Professor who seemed to have perked up just a bit and thought she would ask for her help before anything else could happen to annoy her again. "Excuse me Professor but could I ask you to demonstrate the spell once more." Yes she had seen it the first time but she felt that seeing it again might've helped her grasp it better.

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With the bottle now filled about a third of the way Vickers set to do the ridiculous task of building pressure within the bottle. He took the launcher and was just fastening the mouth of the bottle onto it when all hell broke lose....

Aparecium..... blasphemy.... 100 points from the Puffs....

Yup, nothing new there. Ok so maybe that 100 points was a lot, but heck it seemed like the Puffs are dead set to burrowing their hour glass towards the South Pole this term.... why not give them an extra hand?

He was kidding of course.

He looks up long enough to hear Elijah say what he said to the wizened Professor. Before he could help himself Vickers let out a cackle, then suddenly clamping his mouth shut and set to look incredibly busy with his bottle rocket. He was soooo not gonna forget that Wilde. Most specially during Divinations classes.

He tapped the bottle and uttered "Explaeris". The bottle shook and.... thats pretty much it. He groaned silently. This is what he gets for being distracted...

"Ah... but... wait!" it was pointless. The Gryffie wasn't going to stick around now after Professor Burbage had already, loudddlyyyy, explained how the rocket wouldn't launch if you weren't the caster AND flapper. Elijah HAD intended on just using a little magic of his own to send the rocket flying and the firstie wouldn't have known the difference.

Hmph.

Now he had to contend with his own rocket. But. He. Would. Not. Flap.

Maybe if he just added in a whole BUNCH of air, the pressure would just set the rocket off itself and then he wouldn't NEED to flap? Pointing his wand at his rocket, he did just that. More and moreeee and moreee airrrrrr untillll....

BANG!

His rocket exploded.

Bits of Professor Burbage's face that Elijah had drawn on his rocket burst into the sky, water spraying evverrryyywwwhhhheeerrrreeee, soaking anyone in a close enough radius. The loudness of the bang had left a ringing in Elijah's ears, his hands still cupped over them from the fright he had received from his EXPLODING rocket...

"Ummmm.... oops..." was all he could manage to say. Sometimes rockets exploded. It happened. He was just working with a different TYPE of rocket than the rest of the class... yep!

Ira had filled the bottle with enough water, so it was time to proceed on to the next step. The spell. Right.

First she practiced it as advised by Professor Burbage. All rightr, it seemed she was doing right. So time to put it to actual use! So a circle in the air over the bottle... and "Explaeris" muttered Ira after completing the circle. And now what? Now... she had to flap. flap, like seriously flap?

Holding back a few giggles, Ira began it. She began flapping her arms wildly, looking like a chicken or a bird or something weird!But everybody seemed to be doing it, so no problem!

And suddenly, BANG!
o______O

Ira jumped, looking around, while feeling water dripping all over her! "Ugh!" she held up both her hands, her uniform, soaking wet, but not dripping water. Wiping her face off, and shaking her head a little, she turned around to see what was going on!

It was that boy! That boy called El.. something like that.. oh yes, Elijah! How could anyone explode their rockets? And unfortunately, Ira had been standing just behind that boy! Irritation just turned to anger!

"YOU!" Ira poked the boy in his shoulder angrily, and narrowed her eyes at him.. "Whats going on huh?" Seriously, couldn't the older kids do this simple rocket launching thing right?

Laura suddenly heard what sounded like a rocket exploding and then she felt herself getting wet. "This is ground control to Hyde1 please be advised the weather has changed." Laura looked up wait it wasn't raining. "This is ground control ignore that last statement, the weather is still okay, we are going for launch, T-minus 2 minutes 30 seconds and counting." Laura knew she would have to practice the wand movement soon and then hope for the best.

now for the wand movement. Sarah took out her wand, traced a circle over her bottle and flapped. Flap,flap, flap, until her arms hurts. She then tried it again this time saying the incantation, yet she never did it on the bottle. Soon she was ready for take off...
She made a circle over the bottle said "explaeris" loud and clear and began to flap. Flap, flap, flap. Then....

she was showered by some water. Perhaps someone had not preformed the Aguamenti spell wrong, that was probably Elijah, who was prone to do silly things... she turned in his direction, where indeed the spray came from. Yet it was not his wand that caused the water, or rather not directly... it was his rocket... which had exploded.
Sarah grinned, water droplets streaking down her face. She licked one that was on her cheek (her tongue was long, she could touch her tongue with it even)... water... she had been thirsty. Now maybe she should ask the teacher if she should preform a hot-air dry spell on herself...

Cora smiled at her. “Well that’s a relief,” she thought. “At least she didn’t laugh at me for being so excited.” She thought it was interesting that Cora was so nice to her and she was just a little first year.

“I’m sure yours will work.” She said encouragingly. She looked at her wobbly rocket and laughed, “Thanks. It’s got character all right” she said with a chuckle. “And apparently it even holds water!” Eliza knelt on the ground and began attaching her rocket to the launcher. Now that someone was with her she really, really hoped it fit on well. She didn’t really want to have to start all over if her bottle was too dented in to affix to the launcher… Aha! It fit just fine! “Well that’s a good sign,” she thought.

Cora dropped her rocket but managed to get it onto her launcher. “She sure drops things a lot,” Eliza noticed. “What a funny sight we would be. Her dropping things, me tripping into other things…” she laughed to herself.

“What year are you anyway?” Eliza asked while she practiced the wand movement for her next spell. She waved her arm in a circle over the bottle. She knew she was a Ravenclaw, and that she was older than herself, but she realized she had never officially asked the girl anything about herself. “She must think I’m awfully rude,” she thought.

Still circling her arm over her rocket, she spoke the word, “Explaeris!” and began flapping her arms. She looked around her at the other students. This felt so ridiculous. Nothing happened on her first try. She might’ve known. “Of course I’d have to keep flapping about and trying over and over,” she sighed. Cora didn’t seem to get it on the first try either though, so she felt a little relieved.

Aspen knew, Aspen knew. ROCKETS. It was exciting and all, but... it wasn't supposed to be easy. And in Aspen's opinion, learning how to conjure water was a much more important lesson than learning how to shoot a muggle rocket.

She wondered if anyone had ever tried to apparate to the moon? Could they? Did gravity weigh in on apparation? Hmmm...

She patiently encouraged West on. "You're thinking too far ahead, I think. You can't get to rocket launching until you first add water. So concentrate only on water. Aguamenti.

And while West was doing THAT, Aspen threw up a quick and practiced SHIELD to keep them from bits of bottle and all the water from Elijah's failure. How was West going to learn with THAT nonsense going on?

Aspen was going to hex him if he kept on with the distractions. Then he'd have a reason to be so... so Elijah.

Okay, so now that his rocket was in position all he needed to do was to practice his spell. He wasn't even sure if he could so it in once. He surely needed some more try on the rocket before it zoomed into the air.

He was nervous if it didn't happen in the first try his rocket would explode and then he would have to try the whole thing again. He just prayed that it didn't. He took his wand and said "Explaaaaeris!" noting. No maybe he said it wrong. He tried again "Expllaaeris!" still he was sure if that was correct. He though to give it one more try and said "Explaeris!" hmm, now that sound better. Now it was time to try it on the rocket. He took a last look at the rocket before if flew into the air or was just about to explode. Whatever it may be he won't give up.

With the incantation on her mind, Beezus proceeded to practicing the wand movement. The dreadful wand movement.

She walked over to the launcher, wand in the ready and began to draw a circle over the bottle...and errr....flap..flap..flap..

EWW. She was actually doing it, no? She must've looked awful.

At the firs attempts, she kept frowning but the more she repeated the wand movement, the more she enjoyed. She was laughing by the end of it, not at her classmates this time, but at herself. She was flapping like a bird and she was having fun with it.

...until..

...that Hufflepuff (yes, him.) blew up his bottle. Thankfully, she wasn't too close or else she must've been soaking wet by now. Although the explosion stayed in her eardrums for a while. Merlin, was his robes made up of trouble cloth?

Nigel was still cautious of this Professor. How can someone as old as her, never heard of Captain Kirk. It was like impossible or something. Well at least we were going to start blasting your rockets off. But first Nigel had to follow the instruction the Professor told the class to do. Filling the Rocket with water sounded easy enough.

"Aguamenti" Nigel said pointing his wand at his rocket. He waited till it was filled with water before stopping the spell. He knew what he was going to say when his rocket flew up in the air. You always needed a catch phrase when you were shooting anything. This was turning out to be an awesome lesson.

Well, now, this wasn't going to be as easy as Sutton had originally thought. Frowning slightly, she awkwardly pulled out her wand. They had to use magic. Very... odd looking looking magic. This was not what she had imagined magic would actually look like. Sutton had a strange suspicion that this wasn't going to turn out very well for her.

Giving Logan a frightened look, she gingerly carried her rocket over to the fountain and filled it up with water. Taking it back to her launch pad she set it down. Her stomach, for some reason, was fluttering with nerves. Doing her best to copy the professor's movements, Sutton traced over her bottle in a circle... but she unknowingly circled in the wrong direction.

"Explaeris," she recited, and then began flapping her arms.

With a crushing sound, her bottle began to cave in as the air was sucked out of it rather than pumped in.

With a horrified look on her face, she wordlessly looked around waiting for someone to help her. Feeling like someone was squeezing her lungs, she finally found Professor Burbage some distance off in the Courtyard. Silently, Sutton raised a slightly trembling hand.