West wouldn't have minded gripping charms on HIS hands, that'd be fun. Like that muggle superhero they learned about. The spider one. He could crawl all over things and stuff. BUT HEY if Flamsteed was losing Theo points for existing and whatnot, he was getting the West equivalent, which was more like fluff and odds and ends from pockets than any actual points, for there being SPELLS in the class. West was down for that. ALSO STARS. Making a star? Or something like a star. Down for stars. And also just actually DOWN because gravity? WASBACK! He had the forethought to at least get right side up so that he could land on his feet even if he wasn't close enough to the ground to have a completely easy landing. But West Odessa was like a CAT with reflexes and such.

So yeah. No bruises.

He went over and got his stuff from the box and then started copying down the spell instructions. He'd try them for SURE but first he wanted to make sure he had them written down since after all, it wouldn't be the first time he'd have to leave a class needing to work on it on his own time. He grabbed a jar while he was at it.



Okay now for the rest.

He was going to be the BEST star maker ever. He got his wand out and TAPPED the blue and then yellow 'meteors' and then very carefully packed all these goodies up in his bag.

Now to try out the wand movements yes? He wasn't gonna get kicked out YET right?

Question for the Professor!
 

Whaaaaat?

No more anti-gravity? But...but it was...and she was...and the stars...She was the star whisperer.

Once she was back on the ground she did a bit of sulking. The floating around thing was pretty cool and the falling stars too.The girl was so upset that she almost stopped listening to the Professor but of course she was a good student most times so she listened while staring at the little blue guy she had caught.

Oh? They'd be taking care of them???

COOOL!!

But...hold on...taking care of two...? Her hand flew up immediately. "Professor I only caught one star...does that mean I can't take care of two like everyone else?" She WANTED two if everyone else was having two...

Pout.

Peyton was still floating around in a little ball when Professor Airey announced time was up. And they were going back down.

Wait.

Did that mean they were just going to...fall. Drop. SPLAT?!

Peyton was looking for someone/thing to hold on to. She didn't like falling. The sensation of it. Yes, she's a Quidditch player and thank Merlin she hasn't fallen off her broom ever...except that one time long ago, when she had stolen borrowed her daddy's broom when she was seven years old, and...she ended up with several broken bones. She glanced around, spotting Professor Funners once more as he raised his wand and...they weren't falling! :3

She wobbled a little when her feet landed on the ground, other than that, Peyton decided that the only type of flying she liked was on a broom. This was cool, but it exhausted her and she was sure she had several bruises on her body.

After returning the borrowed gear and getting her stuff back, Peyton sat at her seat, setting the meteors on desk in front of her. She liked them. And she had names for them already. Gilly and Nilly. They were twins.

She glanced up to hear what Professor Airey was explaining now and...it was a lot. The third year just blinked at him as if he had grown an extra head. He was a talkative fellow, wasn't he? Still, Peyton followed his instructions and took her wand out, giving the rocks a tap.

*Blink, blink*

Where did her meteors go? She wanted them back! She didn't want these...oooh. They were going to make a star? Well. That was totally cool. She wrote down notes, sighing every time she thought Professor Airey was done speaking but then he continued again. She wanted food. BAD. Like, she could feel her body going bankrupt on energy.

Finishing up the last bit of notes and practicing the spells the professor had presented them with, Peyton stuffed her belongings into her bag and went to the front to retrieve a pickling jar. Oh, cute little thing. She then waved at the professor with a wide smile. "Thanks for the lesson, bye Professor Airey!" And then scampered off. Time to get re-energized...

Food, food, food.

Professor question re: Cumugasalis and Deminugasalis wand movement
 

Once she was familiar with the pronunciations of the incantations to each spells, Alyssa referred to her journal, as she took out her wand and practiced the wand movements.



'Okay for Fingere Elementi, the wand movement is just a jab. Easy enough.' Alyssa thought to herself as she practiced jabbing her wand.

'Okay now for the second spell, Dextrini Potitus. The wand movement is a jab
with a flick upwards to increase and flick downward to decrease.' Alyssa practiced that wand movement. With her wand, she jabbed and flicked it upwards and then jabbed and flicked it downwards. She practiced that a couple of times before moving on to the third and forth spell.

'Cumugasalis. wand movement: two flicks. Deminugasalis, two flicks.' Alyssa read her journal before practicing the wand movements. She flicked her wand twice. 'Does it matter whether I flick it upwards or downwards?' Alyssa thought to herself.

So she raised her hand and asked the Professor "Professor for the spell Cumugasalis and the Deminugasalis, the wand movement is two flicks. Does it matter whether it is an upward or downward flick?"

Sarah still had not recieved her glasses back when the professor told them that it was time to land again. Well. on the positive side at least she had to meteors. And they had stayed in her hand the whole entire time. for a few brief seconds her feet were rather jellylike yet soon they adjusted. Now she cast 'finite' to release the gripping charm. Now she had to unload herself of the burden of the protective gear. Maybe she should get some for home, that way she could be her own hyperactive self without being punched by her brothers... mind you it did not help as some were of age already. THankfully there were no injuries yet she stil never had her glasses.

Without her glasses Sarah had to move to the front to see what the professor was doing more clearly. Wait, those things were not real meteors as they were able to become those stars so easily. After all the care Sarah had done they were just star thingies in disguise.

The teacher began talking very fast and Sarah hastily whipped out her notebook in case she might need to take notes.Wait the professer was going way too fast so Sarah only managed a scrawl...
Thabkfully writing appeared up front... yet she had to squint to reaad it and copying it down required her nose to nearly touch the page UGH

Now she needed to practice the incantation before she left

It turned out the thing she had run into was indeed a person, and not just ANY person - but the professor! Eliza felt a shudder of embarrassment and fear of punishment ripple through her as they collided, but there was no time for apologetic looks or phrases. The impact sent them both reeling, him into another student, and herself across the room towards another wall.

SPOILER!!: Professor Airey

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11303919) Alright, this had certainly been enough floating and flailing for THIS astronomer so surely the students were growing a bit tired as well. Yes? He needed to check his sundial to be sure though. First though, he needed to wait to collide with the wall so he could orientate himself and perhaps finnaly cast that Gripping Cha--- *SMACK* "Oh, hello wall. We finally meet," the Astronomy professor said with a little twinkle in his blue eyes. Alright, so now that he was on the wall... Airey quickly performed the Gripping Charm on his hands and feet and began to crawl his way down the wall and over the floor like a space monkey until he reached the projector. "Well done all of you," he grinned to those hanging on there. "You can let go now." Turning his head slightly, and with his wand out again, Airey gave a knowing smirk. "Everyone! Prepare yourselves! I'm restoring gravity!" Which meant that everyone was going to come crashing down! Or so he was going to let them think. He wasn't cruel or insane like that - even if students were all wearing protective gear. With a flick of his wand, gravity returned to the room and the space-age floor returned to the planetarium's usual grey carpet lined with rows and rows of chairs. Waiting just a moment to let the weight, hehe get it?!, of the situation sink in, he gave another wave of his wand. "Aresto Momentum!" There. Now no one was going to face plant into the floor or chair or anywhere. Standing upright - and wheeling the wheelchair over to Mr. Clark - Airey turned his attention back to the class. "Well done all of you! If you will please take your two meteors and return to your seats there is just one more miiiiiiiiiinor detail we need to discuss before I dismiss you all." He gave the box beside him a quick kick to open it up. "Those of you who put your things in this box can please come and retrieve them and you can return your protective gear and gloves as well." He paused a moment to allow students to do just that before continuing. "By now you all have two meteors in your hand, so they look just like colored rocks. One yellow and one blue. With your wands please give them a small tap like so," he said while demonstrating on his own. Instanding the rocky cover vanished in a poof of yellow smoke (on the yellow meteor of course) and revealed a star shaped box labeled hydrogen. He did the same on the blue meteor, only this time a star shaped boxed labeled helium appeared. Grinning from ear to ear, he looked to the class. "You are going to need to keep and utilize these two boxes safe for your long term project. Do NOT open these boxes until I have instructed you to do so." Seriously. Don't. "Now, I know what some of you are probably thinking, how can gases be kept in boxes like this? Well, with some snazzy spell work these two gases have been turned into powder form." Could any of them guess what this long term project was? Yes? No? If they had been paying attention to what he had said to Miss Potter earlier in the lesson perhaps they could put two and two together and make four. "You will all be making and caring for your own stars this term," he BEAMED. "Today you have learned the difference between a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite - along with some other things - and how a meteor is different from a star despite it being labeled as a shooting or falling star by those not in the know." Which they all were now, so they could say 'Oh! Look at that dazzling meteor!' instead of 'Oh! Look at that shooting star! "I will be opening up the astrophysics laboratory for you to accomplish this assignment, but before I do that there are several spells I would like you to practice before you leave. Just the incantations and wand movements for now. I will provide you with more details on these spells and what they do when I post your long term assignment on the Astronomy announcement board. You can practice the real thing in the laboratory." Because there was no way they could perform the spells now without the pickling jars that were beside him. With another wave of his wand, Airey made several diagrams appear on the domed screen overhead. "The first spell you see is Fingere Elementi, and the wand movement is just a simple jab movement. This spell will convert your powdered hydrogen and helium into gases in your pickling jars, which I will give to you as you leave the planetarium. The helium & hydrogen will compress on their own inside the jar to make your star," he explained. "The second is Dextrini Potitus, is a spell which will control the temperature of the core of your star once it is in the jar. The wand movement is also a jab followed by an upward flick to increase the temperature and a downwards flick to decrease it." And another little demonstration for them all to look at. "The following two spells require two flicks of your wand and the incantations are Cumugasalis and Deminugasalis. Cumugasalis will increase the helium content of your star while Deminugasalis will decrease it. You may NOT simply add more of your powdered helium to the jar and expect it to work." Nope. Once it was in the jar there was no adding anything. Opening the jar would just ruin their project. "Finally, Crescere Hydrogenenii will increase the hydrogen content of your star. The wand movement is a tight circle drawn in the air followed by a jab. Circle movement on the Crescere and jab on Hydrogenenii." [ list of spells as they appear over head ] ⌦spell to cause phase shift (solid, liquid, gas) ▸incantation :: Fingere Elementi ▸wand movement :: jab ⌦spell to control temperature ▸incantation :: Dextrini Potitus ▸wand movement :: jab with a flick upwards to increase and flick downward to decrease ⌦spell to increase helium ▸incantation :: Cumugasalis ▸wand movement :: two flicks ⌦spell to decrease helium ▸incantation :: Deminugasalis ▸wand movement :: two flicks ⌦spell to increase hydrogen ▸incantation :: Crescere Hydrogenenii ▸wand movement :: tight circle drawn in the air followed by a jab. Circle movement on the Crescere and jab on Hydrogenenii Sorry kids, it was a lot to process at once but the sundial didn't lie - they were almost out of time. "Practice these as much or as little as you wish here now and then come get yourself a pickling jar," he said with a nod towards the box. "Once you have your jar you are dismissed to enjoy the rest of your afternoon! Homework and more details on your long term assignment will be posted on the Sky News board later. Oh, and prefects, I will not be posting homework on your house boards, so make sure you do so, yes?"

Luckily Professor Airey announced the end of the zero gravity session and she could finally breathe a sigh of relief. But then she realized. Wait, nonononono! Is he just going to let us fa- she began to panic inside, but was cut off mid thought as the professor kindly stopped their motion and gently returned them to the ground. ll...Oh. I guess not. She gave him a thankful smile and walked over to retrieve her things from the storage box. One book bag tightly zipped and secured, just as she had left it.

She then moseyed over to the protective gear storage bin and removed the items she had borrowed. She felt a little cold once she took them off, as they had been a nice extra layer of heat retention for the duration of the lesson. She shivered once or twice and slowly pulled her hand from the glove. Her fingers weren't used to being confined in something like that for so long, so she gave them a little wiggle to help them feel less stiff.

She walked back to her seat and plopped down, exhausted from all of the floating and crashing, and listened to their next instructions. Tap on them? Will they disappear? she wondered suspiciously. She had really wanted to keep hers so she hoped that wouldn't be the case. She did as she was told and POOF, they each turned into the little star boxes.

What could we be doing with these? she pondered as she shook the star boxes lightly to hear what was inside. Then she could scarcely believe her hears. Not about the powder sound inside the boxes, but about the professor's statement. They were going to be making stars! Making them?! That's AMAZING!!! But how? Now at full attention, the little Ravenclaw furiously copied down the spells they needed to know for their assignment. She definitely wanted to do all of this 100% correctly, not just for full credit but c'mon - to make a perfect star! She went over some of the incantations inside of her head, but decided to leave the rest of the practice for later.

After pulling her book bag onto her shoulder, she approached the front of the room to get a pickling jar from the professor. "Professor Airey, thank you for the wonderful lesson. Making stars will be so much fun!" She began to turn away to leave, but really felt compelled to add another thing. "And I'm glad you're our teacher," she said with a semi-shy smile before she went out the door, eager to get a jump on all of her homework that would soon be due for her other classes.

Selina's nose ached. So she hardly noticed when Flamstead returned gravity back to the room and she was back on the ground standing upright. All she kept doing was reaching her nose and checking to see if she were bleeding or not. Ugh, just her bloody luck. Well, at least it wasn't bad? She was used to it by now. It happened often enough.

The pain though was at least subsiding and becoming more bearable. And that was a plus, but she kept her head tipped back just in case. Didn't want to get any ickles...

And just when she thought the lesson was over... Well-dressed man kept talking. Oh bloody hell. Her nose was broken, sir! She had to attend to that and he was chatting them up like they were at Sunday brunch. He was a very good and attractive teacher but couldn't he have just posted this on the notice board?

O_______o

THEY WERE MAKING WHAT NOW? Stars? That was SO cool! Merlin, Flamstead was getting cooler and cooler every second, but she did happen to sit up just at that moment, which did NOT make for happy Selina. Her nose decided to get all temperamental, so she threw her head back and tried to keep everything under control. Oh poop. Okay, she was good.

Keeping her head tipped back, she listened to all of his notes and beamed at the latin. She LOVED Latin.

And then he was talking about how they were going to make stars. REAL STARS! There were instructions and everything. Awkwardly leaning her head to the left she wrote down all of the notes with her nose still facing the ceiling. She did not need any mishaps happening. Once that was all written down, the notes, she took her wand and tapped both meteors and wouldn't you know it? They changed just like he said they would.

The redhead really did want to practice the spells, but she would do that on her own time. She had her nose to attend to, honestly. Besides, she had all of the notes, she'd be fine... she hoped. Yeah, she really hoped. So packing up her things with her nose still awkwardly looking up at the ceiling, she picked up one of the jars on the way out and waved to Professor Flamstead,
"EXCELLENT lesson sir," Until of course she broke her nose, "Enjoy your day."

And with that she was off to find SOMEONE to fix her nose.

Minerva landed on the floor a little harder then she would have liked, but not to bad that she would have gotten hurt. She looked around and frowned, what if she got into trouble for only catching one meteor and it was just a yellow one. She had so much trouble with the no gravity thing. Now she knew why she wasn't on the quidditch team.

Minerva walked over and placed the protective gear and the glove away. She headed back to her seat with her one star and listened as the professor talked about spells they were going to learn. Pulling out her wand, Minerva began to practice. Jabbing her wand, Minerva stated clearly "Fingere Elementi"

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT???

Misheard??? So they wouldn't be getting to make and take care for TWO stars? But that wasn't fair! She WANTED two. Two was better than one! What if her little blue guy got lonnnnnnnely. She didn't want him being lonely!!! There had to be some other way--

Hydrogen and Helium...?

Was that what was in these things? Dangit, she really might not have been listening as well as she thought she was. So much for being a good student. "I have a blue one, seeeeee?" She said, holding it up so he could have a better look. Then she went and got her things and returned the safety gear.

Okay.

She was ready for the Professor to give her a solution now.

Alyssa watched as the Professor demonstrated. "Okay got it. Thanks Professor for clarifying that for me." Alyssa thanked the Professor before proceeding to practice the wand movements for the last two spells. Once she was familiar with all the incantations and wand movements that they would be required to use for the term homework, Alyssa picked up her two star shaped boxes, and packed them in her backpack along with her writing materials and her journal.

Slinging her back pack over her shoulder she walked over to where the pickle jars were and picked one up, placing that into her backpack as well. Then she turned to the Professor.

"Thank you for an interesting lesson. I'm looking forward to working on our term long homework." Alyssa told him before leaving the classroom.

Prepare herself...She would fall wouldn't she!! Or get hurt?? When he restored it right!!?? Just when she was sure the Professor was going to let them drop to the floor to their deaths! Professor Flamsteed said the magical words...And no one face planted...Yay for magic!!

She went and got her bag out of the box once she had returned her protective gear...And she almost gave the Professor her glove...Oh no no no!
Sweet star boxes!!!! WAIT DID THE PROFESSOR JUST SAY!!!! They were going to making and caring for STARS!!!!!!!

Nerida picked up her wand and gave the blue ball a tap and watched as the rocky cover vanished in blue smoke and left a star shaped box!! SWEET! She did the same with the yellow box this time the rocky cover vanished in yellow smoke and revealed another star shaped box!! Though the yellow was labeled helium and the blue was labeled hydrogen.

As the Professor said the spells and wand movements and what it does she added them to her notes... Practice them..And then they can go...Okay...But collect pickling jar before you leave..Got it!



After finishing up her notes she started to practice the wand movement for Dextrini Potitus. A jab with a flick up...A jab with a flick down...She repeated until she felt she had got that one down...Now time for that incantation... "Dextrinni Potitus...Dextrini Pottitus...Dextrini Potitus...Dextrini Potitus.."

No, Kat did not want to practice the spells yet but she did copy the ones written on the board for her to practice on later at the Common Room. She wanted to leave as soon as possible, in case they were going to be LATE for the next class. You know, they couldn't afford to lose points. They were on it against 'em Puffers. Grr. Hiss.

Once finished, Kat packed her things and took a jar from in front before leaving. Before that, she went and tapped each of her. So she was ready to leave. Kat slung her bag on her shoulder, then faced Flamsteed. "Thanks for the lesson, Professor," she said and gave him a thumb up. Cool lesson. Minus the bumping and the almost!headache. Hey, it DID hurt for your information.

And she left.