*looking for ze roller*
 

Peyton didn't skip to class like she's done with the rest. The stairs. They were a problem. You see, coming from all the way from the dungeons wasn't so nice. Peyton was tempted to FLY up here. That'd be waaaay easier and her legs wouldn't ache. Too bad she couldn't do that.

She stopped before entering the classroom, looking for the lint roller they were supposed to use. What was up with the cleanliness? It reminded her of her mother. Uuuugh.

O.o

There was a problem though.

The lint roller wasn't there. Strange. She'd read the rules properly and she was sure a roller was to be provided. Maybe someone took it and thought it was funny? It wouldn't be funny if she lost points 'cause of it.

Peyton marched into the classroom, glancing around. "Where's the lint roller at?" And may she please have it.

Daphne Hughes was outside of the Astronomy classroom, using one of the lint rollers as much as possible because honestly, she was sort of scared to come to this class. Astronomy was really cool to learn about, but the Professor's rules freaked her out. Not really the rule about lint rolling, which was definitely weird, but the rule about being a Gryffindor and not having a badge. That was what scared her.

After getting off every single spec of lint from her robes, she set the lint roller back down, and walked into the classroom. She was fascinated by the projection screen but she wondered why the Professor didn't just use magic to do that. But she wouldn't ask, just in case the Professor would get mad at her. As she neared the Professor though she gave a small little wave and said, "Hello Professor." She wasn't going to introduce herself, just yet, because if he didn't know her name then he couldn't hate her.

Smirk.

She immediately walked over to one of the chairs and took a seat, looking around as all the other students filed in. Now hopefully this class would go quickly and calmly.

OH HAIIII A NEW PROFESSORRR!!!

ariana hoped into the classroom "Gooood Evening Professor! Nice Suit I must say!" and i hope you dont get eaten this term! though the suit was snazzy.. wow.. was she suppose to wear a suit........... she didnt get that memo.. weirddd. she took a seat and pulled out a piece of parchment and simply waited.. and waiteddd

She wasn't late!! She knew for a fact that she wasn't late because she'd made an extra effort to be early and eveyone knew that a little effort was all it took to accomplish anything. So it was, she told herself she wouldn't be late and as luck would have it she arrived when eveyone else was too. She was about to bolt into the classroom but then she remembered about that lint roller thing and pretty soon she was remembering that whole Gryffindor rule.

How ruuuuuude. It wasn't like the Gryffies planned to get the place exploded or get themselves killed! Didn't the Professor have any faith in them? What was the worst that could happen?

Lex looked over at another girl by the entrance? Wait. They couldn't find the lint roller? Pity. Oh well, she'd just have to walk in and hope to learn through all that prospective lint clots all over her robes. Pfffff. Seriously. A lint roller.

"Hello Professor!" BEAM. "I think I should let you know the lint roller pulled a disappearing act." So yes, she was probably riddled with lint at the moment. Problem? She gave him another smile then took a seat by Lottie. This should be fun! Burbage had manage to make this one of her favourite subjects, the Professor was a now guy, she didn't want anything to change her mind about that.

This was where he brought out the sodas and making the students happy!

Alyssa quickly entered the Astronomy tower and was glad to see that even though there were already other students present, that class hadn't started yet. She noticed the new Professor standing in front of the projector.

Walking up to him, she greeted him with a smile. "Hello Professor. The place looks really nice." she told him before walking over to an empty seat. Placing her backpack down on the floor, she dug inside until she found her journal and textbook. Pulling them both out, she opened up her textbook and started reading it as she waited for the class to start.

"What IS a lint roller?" Really. WHAT was it? West had no clue. Not that he'd need it anyway since as a matter of course his clothes were all charmed by his dad since... well, West was the sort of kid who NEEDED his stuff charmed. But West didn't make that connection, he had nooooo clue.

He'd seen it on that rules thing but how could you use a thing when you didn't know what it was?

No lint roller[ /Captain Obvious]
 

Where was the lint roller? 'Cause it wasn't outside.....

Oh well. Sky just charmed as much of the lint off her uniform as she possibly could. That would just have to do. What was the big deal about lint anyway? Was Professor Flamsteed afraid that lint would attract Mr. Bumpy or something? Because was pretty sure he only liked socks.

Entering the class, she quickly found herself a seat and sat. "Hello, professor!" Yep, he got a bright, cheerful greeting, even though she thought the thing with the lint roller was weird. Though, she had no worries about the other odd thing on his list of rules: the Gryffindor thing. She was a Slytherin. *Beam.*

Dustin FINALLY made it up the stairs of the Astronomy tower to the classroom. He flew brooms. He didn't need to EXERCISE. Brooms did the work for you. Panting with his hands on his knees outside of the classroom, he looked up to see a table that had held something...or maybe it was just there. Who knew? That Burbage lady was weird, so Dustin figured it was probably just some strange way to decorate.

He strolled into the classroom, now that he had regained his composure and could look put-together, and stopped short. The first reason being that OOOOOOO STAAAARRSSSSSS, and the second - there was a youngish man (everyone was old in Dustin's eyes, but Miss Lady had taken it to another level; she was ancient and had a weird affection toward older men. Dustin would never understand girls) standing at the front of the classroom with a smirk on his face.

"Umm...hi...man. Where is that other lady?" Dustin asked, looking around. He had been terribly aloof for 99% of last term...and at the welcome feast....and in general. He was surprised he had even made it to his second year. "And who are you and what is your name and why are you smirking like that? Did you..." he leaned in close and whispered, "pass gas? Not like....interplanetary gas, but like....flatulent gas."

It seemed an important question to ask. He really needed to know before he went and sat down, which, he spied a spot next to Golden Seeker Boy, AidAn, and motioned for the fellow second year to save the spot for him.

So no one was going to hand it over? Fine, but if she got in trouble 'cause of it then Peyton would just blame whomever was sitting next to her.

She went and sat down and turned to the person she'd blame...

...Oh and he didn't know what a lint roller was. She'd tell him. It'd make blaming him much easier. ^__^

"It's this roller thing. It's sticky and you use it to rid your clothes of lint." Simple, no? M'hm! Of course she knew what it was. Living near half-bloods had its advantages. "Have you seen it by the way?" 'Cause she wanted to use it. :3

He had finally managed to get at the astronomy tower after a quick bite in the great hall. He was always a bit jealous of students in the Lion or Claw house cause their dorms were closeby. But then he figured he shouldn't complain since THEY had to walk down and back up everyday and the Slytherin only when he had astronomy or Divination.

As he pushed the door open, Daichi wondered how the first lesson would go. From what he had seen and heard in the office, Professor Flamsteed was a pretty cool guy who luckily wasn't a crazy Pyroman. "Hello Professor~" he greeted with a smile and he waved his hand enthusiastically at the man.

Laura had finally managed to make it to the Astronomy tower, she walked into the classroom and smiled at the Professor. "Good day Professor, hope you had a great summer." Laura went and sat down, but whilst she was moving she was thinking to herself, what a weird suit he was wearing, Professor's didn't normally wear suits.

Professor, Mo, Peyton, probably people interested in lint
 

"A sticky roller.... thing...." West turned and looked at Mo immediately. Soooo it was that thing? That thing he'd had in his hair? Now here was a dilemma. Did he rat his friend out?

He looked at that Peyton girl and frowned slightly, ignoring her question. "Why not just use charms? There's no lint on me on account of charms." Not charms HE had spelled there but ones that were put on his clothes as a matter of course.

He smiled. "Thanks for telling me what it is though." But it didn't explain why that was in the rules?

He stuck his hand up, "Hey professor? How come a lint thing is in the rules? Lint roller thing." His eyes flickered to Mo again but again he stayed silent. It wasn't like it wouldnt' be noticed but he wouldn't be the one to draw attention to the fact that his friend, Mo Branxton, had STOLEN the professor's lint roller.

Christmas entered the astronomy classroom and said "Good evening professor" Christmas was looking forward to this lesson

Class has officially begun! *loves on you all* you all make me giggle <3
 

5 points off Ravenclaw for improper use of a lint roller in astronomy class? West shot a little look at Mo that translated to something like this-dude-is-dafter-in-the-head-than-the-divination-professor which was really the sort of message that could only be communicated to someone who you'd spent a huge chunk of your life around, but hey! That Peyton girl got points! For telling him-- oh a free lint roller?

And had anyone noticed he looked at a sundial inside?

So to recap, the professor was a Gryffindor, Mo had lost points while Anya and Peyton gained some, and he, West Odessa, had a lint roller of his very own.

Blink.

And now he was supposed to sing a song? About astronomy.

Err okay. He put his hand up which meant waving the lint roller in the air, and then spoke up. "I'm West Odessa." Paaaaaaaaause.

And it was time to sing, so the third year did and used the Lint Roller as a makeshift microphone.

Ahem.

"It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny!
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney!
It's big and black and inky!
And we are small and dinky!
It's a big universe and we're not!"

Was he done? Nooooooo:

"And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view!

And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky *craaaack* Waaaaay!
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!"

Err. Ignore that one little voice issue. He rubbed his throat. Obviously no need to explain the connection right? Oh and FYI professor, apparently lint rollers were good for makeshift microphones too. He beamed and because he was curious to try this thing out now that he knew what it did, West busied himself delinting his already lint-free sweater.

Okay. It was legit. This Professor was indeed weird, just as how most of her peers had described him. Seriously, he WAS wearing a suit (she had to admit that it was a fine piece of fabric, yes), he asked them to bring a baseball glove during that lesson (Astronomy? Baseball glove? When did that become the norm?), he also suggested that them girls wear pants instead of skirts which she so willingly promptly compelled to doing so, he had a 'usage of lint roller' rule before entering the classroom which made things a hundredfold weirder because apparently, she didn't see one when she stopped by the door before walking in.

And now he was taking points from Ravenclaw. HOLYSNITCH! Not again. BLOODYQUAFFLE! Again, under her watch. Why were they losing points sooooooo early? Marcus, WHYYYYY? She was such a failure in keeping an eye over her 'claws. Inner!wibble. Inner!wibble. Sometimes, they're really too curious for their own good.

She didn't have too much time to dwell on her own thoughts though because the man in the suit began to address the class. Professor Flamsteed. Oh, she'd go with Professor Airey. And Professor Airey enjoyed suits, science fiction....and singing?

O.o

He....was.....singing.... Twinkle twinkle little star?

Err. Beezus' palms went together and yes, she clapped. It wasn't a usual thing for a Professor to sing in a lesson, and his first lesson at that. Plus! She loved singing. Not love love love, but she loved to sing...especially when she was frustrated, depressed and bored and yeah.

So, here she was, raising her hand. First song that popped into her brain with the word 'star'. She was very much fascinated with stars. VERY. "Uhm, the song Airplanes, Professor. Although I can connect only a small part of it to Astronomy." But no connection is too small as he'd said, right? Wait, wait...she had to introduce herself! "I'm Beatrice Castell, by the way, Professor." So, back to giving a song. The brunette cleared her throat, blushing slightly before going on. "The exact verse that somehow coincides with Astronomy goes like this:

"Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now,
wish right now, wish right now."

Okay, yeah. "Star is present in the lyrics." It OBVIOUSLY had something to do with Astronomy. "And it implies the common belief that wishing on a shooting star comes true." Beaaaaaam. She did that so often. But she was too busy this term that she didn't have the time to visit the Observatory on a non-class setting. Mental note to come back here and do some star gazing. Hm. Definitely.

Minerva, who had been very quiet until now, put her hand up. "Professor there is a muggle singer who as been gone a long time, but his name was Elvis, he had a song called Flaming Star." Minerva looked around did anyone even know this singer, probably not, but she had found some of his music at her grandparents over the summer. "Some of the lyrics are

Ev’ry man, has a flaming star
A flaming star, over his shoulder
And when a man, sees his flaming star
He knows his time, his time has come

Flaming star, don’t shine on me, flaming star
Flaming star, keep behind me, flaming star
There’s a lot of livin’ I’ve got to do
Give me time to make a few dreams come true
Flaming star"

Putting her hand down she hoped she had the right idea of what he was asking.

Zack was actually very happy to be in the astronomy class. He was glad to be here with the new professor. He had heard some rumors about the professor being half crack or something, he just wanted to see it himself if they were true. As he was sitting at one of the corner seats, he could see all the starts giving the room a great look of a starry night.

He loved that as well. So far it was all going very good, until he heard the professor say something about singing. He didn't like singing at all. He was the worst at singing, maybe some of the students could even faint if he sang. So for the moment he would just sit tight and see if he could come up with any muggle song....but till then he would just enjoy others sing....and make fun of them later

Singing. Jory liked singing but he had a bad voice. Well, the thought so anyway as no one had ever complimented him about it. Except his mom but that doesn't count, right? Moms' always give compliments to their kids, fake or real.

The Puff raised is hand. "Jory Stonewall, Sir. The song that comes to my mind is called Dance of the Planets.'' He nervously cleared his throat.

"Good, that should be enough,'' Jory thought shutting up now and waiting for the class to burst out laughing.

Well it seems like ravnclaw has lost points over a lint roller. Whatever that is. But at least it was not more points. Now a astronomy song. Nigel did remember one from a muggle movie he watched once. Now all he was to do is remember it. He put his hand up. "I'm Nigel Barrington and the song is Space Oddity" Now all he had to do was sing a verse.

"This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do"

Now he had to wonder what a lint roller was and why it made such a good fake microphone.

Hmm. Songs that had connections to Astronomy. Cle hadn't really thought about songs relating to astronomy. Because he generally just listened to songs because he wanted to listen to them. So now he kind of had to think of one. Hmm. He mused a little, chewing on his lip as he thought about a song. Well there was that one. It was a kind of girly song. One his sister listened too. He wasn't really into the band. He couldn't even remember their name. Hmm. That would do. He raised his hand before speaking. "Hmm. There's one called Star girl I think....I can't really remember who wrote it" Because he hadn't really thought about it before. "[b]But anyway. Some of the lyrics are;

So wouldn't you like to come with me
Surfin' the sun as it starts to rise
Woah, your gravity's makin' me dizzy

Fly away
Watch the night turn into day
Dance on the Milky Way"

He said the words though, not really into singing. "The lyrics kind of talk about things in out of space. So kind of connected to Astronomy.

BLINK. BLINKBLINK.

They were going to sing? Kat kinda stared a bit. She didn't want to sing. Can she just skip the singing part and share a song. JUST the title of the song would be good. Debating with herself for a loooooong while, Kat finally raised her hand up. GULP. She was gonna sing, despite how bad she thought her voice was. In fact, she like to underestimate all of her skills besides Quidditch. Alright... alright. "The name's Katrina Hudson, Professor," she said. Take note of that.

Hem hem. Throat clearing.

"I said oh my, what a marvelous tune.
It was the best night, never would forget how we moved.
The whole place was dressed to the nines, and we were dancing, dancing
Like we're made of starlight.
Like we're made of starlight..."

Okay, she sang the chorus already. Kat was contented. *tiny blush* "The song is entitled 'Starlight' and is sang by a Muggle singer..." What was the name again? UHM. Blink. "... Taylor Swift." That was it. She thought it was a nice song anyway. Plus it mentioned stars. That was so Astronomy-ish. "Stars are part of Astronomy, and the lyrics seem to describe stars at night... in a way." First day of Astronomy gone fail.

Sing a song with a connection to Astronomy? Oakey sat at his desk and thought for a moment. He didn't really know very many songs about the subject he was terrible at. Hell, what made him come to this class anyways?

OH wait! No he did know a song about the sun! The song was super scientific and he didn't understand half of it, but it was overly upbeat and Oakey liked dancing to it when he was little! He sat up from his seat "Oakey Gunter." The one who said he and Daichi should blow him up in DADA yeah that Oakey Gunter. "This song is kind of fast, but it's entirely about the sun."
He coughed to let his throat clear took one huge deep breathe in before he started to sing really fast!

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth thered be no life
Without the light it gives

We need it's light
We need it's heat
We need it's energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
Thered be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot"

He took a quick breather, "The next part I don't really get it's all really scientific, something about what's in the sun, how far it is and what can fit inside of it." Breathe Oakey, Breathe! "It's called Why Does the Sunshine?" Breath, he needed to catch his breath why did he sing that so fast.