Jory wandered around where the students and not long after he came across Alyssa's own. He looked around for her and saw she was was examining his own footprint. "Coincidence,'' he thought as he had just made up his mind to examine hers.

Notes in hand, the Puff began. The first thing he noticed was how deep her print was. He decided to start with the heel. That part seemed a tad bit deeper than the rest of her foot. He consulted the notes.

After scribbling down his findings, the boy studied the print again. Here, he determined the arch was long (and of course, deep). He wrote this down before turning his attention to the toes. Long and and spread out, he noticed. "Well, that's it,'' Jory thought as he now started to write down the conclusions.

Jory re- read what he had written. Satisfied, he headed over to Alyssa.

Nina was suprised by the excitment of the girl "That's great" said the Slytherin "Nice nickname. I'm Nina" she smiled. "So...let me see your footprint" said while walking over to the spot where Mika's footprint were. Taking her notebook and quill out she wrote down her first thoughts



"Alright, notes done" Nina nodded at Mika "Let's see what all these means..." 'Cause she had no idea.

Now that Alyssa had written her findings and conclusions into her journal, the next thing for her to do was copy down what she had written onto a piece of parchment which she would give to Jory.

Finding a rock nearby, she went and sat on it. Pulling out a parchment paper and quill, Alyssa began writing what she had discovered about Jory onto it.



Once she was done, she got up, and went looking for Jory and when she found him, she handed over the parchment to him with a smile. "Here you go, Jory." Alyssa told him. "I hope that you like what I found out about your foot print and about you."

Okay, time to get on with the task at hand.

SPOILER!!: Bliss' foot, yo

Bliss looked down at her footprint. She hoped she got a nice person to read or look at her footprint or whatever, cos her feet were the coolest. They looked really long to her and the heel was imprinted quite deep, was it meant to be? BLINK. Maybe it actually meant something, but what if that someone was bad. 'If you have stupidly long feet, you're stupid.' Okay, she doubted it.

HEY. FOOTPRINT OVER HERE.

West went over and CLAIMED Bliss. Basically that was what happened when he went and stood in front of her.

... and he'd make a print right here for her to analyse for him, see how that worked?

"So you know, you could probably like, manipulate the result by smooshing your foot deeper, or squidging up your toes, or like, if there was a muddier, wetter patch over here compared to there and all that." Just thinking out loud.

"We're partners, okay?" Beam.

He smooshed his foot into the mud and then pulled it back, leaving behind a perfect westprint.

There.

Bliss swayed from side to side as she waited for someone to claim her and her footprint. Then after no less that a minute, someone came over and stood in front of her. Looks like she was there's and vice versa. Or rather their foot prints were. BLINK. Anyway, she had someone to work with, so she best get cracking.

West made a footprint near hers and said something about something, which Bliss only blinked at in response. Hmmm. "Yeah, you probably could," she responded. Was West talking to her or himself? Whatever. "Sounds perfect," Bliss nodded in agreement and walked over to stand next to his westprint footprint and began to scrutinize it carefully.

STAAAARE.

Cos staring at the print made it all make sense, y'know.

Bliss scribbled a couple of things down and blinked. Right then, what did this meaaaaan?



She'd figure out what that meant in a minute.

Oh?

"Hai." She was planning to walk around for a bit asking but this worked just as well and required only a fraction of the effort. "I'm Alexa Cambridge." Because they were exchanging names and she was that polite.

Lex stepped to the side so the girl could get a better look at her foot print; that meant yes. "And I guess I'll read yours! It's over there right?" That's the direction the girl came from so it had to be somewhere around there. "You can get started, I'll just go find yours" And find it she did. The girl was smart enough to leave her name right next to it! Now didn't this just make so much easier?

She fixed her eyes on the footprint, trying to remember all the Professor had said. Let's see, it was something about print depth and something about toes....

She'd need her parchment and quill so she ran back to her bag, being careful not to smoosh anyone's footprints and returned with a chocolate covered parchment and a chocolate covered quill. Yeah...she figured that would happen when she threw them all in her bag like that...

Anywho, nothing she could do about that now, there was a footprint that needed reading.

Cheerful Elwood? Yeah, she can be really weird sometimes. As the woman followed her to where she found the paw prints, the Ravenclaw listened carefully at the Professor's answer to her question. Oh...? She was no good with these stuff. "I think I'll give it a shot?" She told her and eyed the prints again.

She was sticking with what she'd said earlier...that it seemed doubtful, quite confused too. Taking into consideration the surroundings, she noted the presence of rocks all over it...and that slope where the prints seemed to travel upwards. Hmm. So, she could deduce it into something like... "Maybe there'll be scruples on my journey, uhmm..." Beezus bit her lip, eyeing the prints more intently as she continued her interpretation. "..obstacles along the way, but then there might be still...hope? PSSH." What in the hell was she talking about?! "..Er. Yeah. Kind of...a good after all the...hindrances?" Eh. She didn't know.

.....

O_________o

WHAT? ...10 points? TEN POINTS?!

Beezus didn't even know what she was going to do. Ravenclaw lost ten points because of Aspen? Her jaw had dropped, she knew. It was still so early into the term and they already got demerits?! And her....she took no action to prevent it from happening. She felt like such a huge failure for letting it occur. She should've done something before Elwood's patience ran short. She should've approached Aspen and asked her politely to stop what she and him were doing granted they were in a class. But she didn't do anything! She didn't BLOODY do anything! That was it. She wasn't fit for the badge. She failed as a Prefect! Faaaaaailuuuuuuuure.

*inner wibble*

Ugh.

Trying to brush off the feeling of being a sore loser by telling herself they'd get those points back, the Prefect dragged her attention back to what was happening in the class.

Professor Elwood was instructing them to make a print in the mud. Not the sand? Okay, off to the muddy part of the bank then.

PRINT.



Meh. Her footprint looked awful. Beezus snorted and then turned her head around at her classmates. So...who's footprint was she going to read...err, interpret?

OKAY lessssseeee....

Bliss's fooottttttprint.

He LOOKED at it.

Deep heel..... longish? Not as long as his though, yes, his foot was totally bigger than hers. Low arch? Sorta. Medium. Sorta just looked like a foot to him. Toes weren't too long or too short and stubby. He wrote that stuff down.

"I'm rubbish at this." He decided after a moment. "Wouldn't the footprint be different if you were like, running or something? Or moving at all? And then, how could a certain thing about how it looks actually mean what it does if it looks different?"

Sarah found a good spot in the mud and put her foot down. Thankfully, no one had really paid attention to her toes which were long and skinny, so they looked a bit stretched. Was she heavy enough to make a decent foot print? She hoped so as she felt the coldness on her sole. She then stepped away - nice footprint. Should she leave a note saying whose footprint it was? She thought it would be a good idea. She reached into her satchel and took out the stick she always carried around (in case making coracles was neccessary) and she wrote her name in the sand adjacent. Now she needed to find a footprint to interpretate.
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Bliss looked up at West and watched as he judged her foot. Was judge the right word for that?

"I doubt it," Bliss told him. He seemed to be good in all subjects. He always gave long and detailed answers and they were always right. So there was no way he could be rubbish at this. "Hmmm, yeah. It would be. Maybe...maybe you would look at it differently if it were like that?" Just a suggestion. Maybe there were different ways of reading the footprint of someone that was running and just walking. Divination was definitely a very precise subject.

The fourteen-year-old looked back at her previous notes on what each thing meant and compared them to West's foot features.

Okay. He had long toes, which meant that he was a thoughtful and logical person. That seemed right. Arch...that was...it was a high arch, so she could only see part of the imprint. Did that mean it was short? In which case, that meant that West is aloof and unaware of what goes on around him. HUH. Maybe? No? Lastly the heel, that was deep, so that meant that his health is in tune and well-rounded.

Right then.

Bliss scribbled she notes and passed them to West. "Here you go, they look...sort of right....maybe." She shrugged at him. They seemed random if you asked her. But at least she'd done the task. Now she'd just have to wait for her results.

"Pleased to meet you." Melody smiled at the girl before she left. Melody then sat on the ground getting a closer look at Alexa's foot print. The first thing she did was make a quick sketch, mainly just an outline of the print. There where plenty of people wondering around. This would prevent someone to accidentally step on the print before she was done.

Melody then studied the foot print looked like long toes, a short arch and the whole thing was deep. She started to write.



Melody did her best to make sure her handwriting was neat since they where not her own notes. She also wanted to make sure her notes on the footprint were well described and told a story. Something that would be worth a good grade for both of them if it is handed in.thoughtful To Melody she considered being thoughtful was more than knowledge, but was a personally trait that meant being considerate of others. She did her best to point that out in her notes about Alexa's foot.

Well, they were done with the animal print reading and maybe Kat's answer wasn't bad after all. Guess the truth could be an acceptable answer. I mean, the truth was ALWAYS right after all and it all made sense the the fifth year. Hmm.

Next up, Elwood called all of them to gather rough. Again. If it wouldn't cost housepoints, Kat would suggest her to use 'Sonorus'. They were witches and wizards after all and it made things easier too. Obeying, Kat went to gather near the Divination professor with the other students. So they were going to do the opposite of Palmistry, which means they were going to read using their feet. Cool or drool? ... Crool. *torn*



Alright. Activity time it is. Kat went to find a place where it was free and obviously had no footprint to destroy. Then she lifted her right foot and pressed it hard on the mud. Ew. Once she was finished with the dirtiness of all of this, she removed her foot from the mud. GULP.

There was her legendary footprint. Now who wants to partner up with her? Looking around, Kat saw Bee. OH, she had no partner as well. "Stunner!" she called out. "You need a partner too?" Great, so do I.

Sarah finally came across a footprint whose was it? She examined it carefully - it was deep which meant they were healthy and well rounded. The arch area was average, which made them normal - which was great, Sarah was too aloof apparently. She did not know what made long toes, yet she thought they were long, which made the person very logical. Yet whose foot was this? She did not know. She looked more carefully at the footprint - perhaps they had left more identifying factors behind, things like hair or toe jam... there was no toe jam which meant that the person either washed their feet regulary or they at it themselves. Fustrated that her attempts had failed Sarah began writing out the prognosis:
She looked for a stone and placed the letter under the stone and put it next to the footprint.now she was done

Staring down at her footprint on the mud, the Ravenclaw frowned. She was seeling something on the print. O____o Was it only her eyes or was that a 10? With a VERY clear - before the number one. Negative ten. Minus ten. Cue more inward wibbling. She really should've done something.

Yes, it was only ten points and they could still get it back but for the whole scene to happen in front of her without her doing anything...well...it made her feel useless and undeserving. Beezus sniffled. How she wished Spike was there.

Stunner?

Looking up, she saw Kat and the she nodded. "Hi dazzler. Yeah, I have no partner yet. Do you want to work together?" Because she'd love to work with her friend...finish this task quickly and dash away to continue her self-loathing.

Jory was about to reach Alyssa when he saw she was also heading towards him. "Heya, Lyssa,'' he called. "Here, I worked on your foot print.'' He handed her the notes on the parchment.



The boy collected the parchment she was handing him. "Thanks, and hopefully I will.'' He had been wondering what his print would say about him. "Yours says all the good things.'' Grin.

Alyssa laughed when she heard Jory say that his findings said all good things. "Well I hope that they're true, that's more important. Thanks for reading mine." Alyssa said as she opened up the parchment and read what he had written.

"Wow! Really? Thanks..." she blushed when she was done reading. "Anyway, I hope that you like what my findings were for you." Alyssa said looking at the parchment that she had given him. Who knew that characteristics were so alike. If Alyssa didn't know better, she would have thought Jory was her twin and not Cody. She laughed to herself with that thought in her mind.

Alright, this class was just getting nuts. What on Earth did tracking animal prints and they environment have any anything to do with anything besides knowing an animal was here and who cares. Oichi did not care what was gonna come of her next actions, all she knew is that she was heated angry with this class. It was boring and teaching her nothing. She walked up to the Professor, "THIS CLASS IS IDIOTIC, HOW ON EARTH CAN ANIMAL REMAINS TELL THE FUTURE OF ANYTHING!!! AND DIVINATION ITSELF IS A JOKE EXCEPT FOR PERHAPS A FEW SEERS WHO HAVE A BLOOD LINE TO THAT NAME. THIS IS A WASTE OF MY TIME AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSES HERE!!! DIVINATION FOR THE MOST PART IS JUST STUPID!!!!!!!, Oichi did not care how the professor reacted. She wanted to say this and had wanted to for a really long time. DIvination classes used to just be fun stupid but this was stupid, stupid and she had just about had enough. She could not wait to see the professors reaction and was not scared of any detention that was sure to come from all this.

Of course, she'd like to work with Bee. It was good because 1) Bee was a longtime friend of hers; 2) She trusted her well enough for the activity; 3) Claws were smart. That was enough said; and 4) she didn't have a partner. Luck might've been her friend for now. "You bet."

So Kat nodded at her footprint which was just near Bee's. Erm... her foot wasn't that weird to look at right? Anyway, forget that. The fifth year then bent beside Bee's footprint and began to examine it. She kept checking her notes so as to make sure her interpretations were accurate.



Bee's toes were... long. That meant she was logical... SMART. Yeah, totally a Ravenclaw. Maybe all Claws had long toes. Right, right. Moving on, she looked at the girl's foot's middle... also known as 'ze arch'. It was long so Bee must be aware of the events around unlike Kat is. She recorded that then examined the print of the heel. It was... shallow. BLINK. Did that mean her health wasn't so well-rounded and stuff? That was scary.

So her recordings were done. Yay. Wonder what Bee thought of hers?

Was Bee done?

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And then she stared at the Gryffindor who screamed at Elwood. MERLIN. This was a housepoint-losing session.

Seeing that look from the Professor, Dylan carried about his business. The whole scene was over and done with. No need to EVIL eyeball him anymore, Professor Elwood...

Brow arches and such.

Several minutes later, the Slytherin was finishing up his animal tracks work, moving closer to the mob of people to hear what they'd be doing next. He was still wary of Aspen Odessa, though...

He was planning her demise...and would exact his revenge...


The Slytherin kept an eye on the Ravenclaw...Not trusting it enough to take his eyes away. Not even for a second...

And he seen her drawing something...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.


Carrying on with the next part of the lesson, Dylan grimaced, notebook and quill in hand. He was funny about this barefoot thing...Not toUgh mention the ground was cold.

Ugh, he just wouldn't think about this too much. He needed to get it done...There wasn't time to mentally complain and glare right now...Later. The Captain would save it for later...

Pulling his pants leg up, he pushed his foot into the sand, fighting the urge to wiggle his toes. It was rather difficult, too...but he managed. Pulling his foot back, Dylan eyed the print. NOW, he needed to draw this thing...Positioning his parchment notebook and quill in hand, he began to stretch...



The Captain had managed a rather realistic print, not something that happened too often. To be honest, Dylan was a rather poor drawer...So, he was proud. Getting down to really view the his print, he jotted some notes beside the drawing, just to help whoever would be analyzing it.

Now...Who to work with...?

Spying the Head Girl, aka his best friend, the Slytherin wandered over, taking in the others working around while doing so...and STILL keeping an eye on the Ravvie!Odessa. SHE COULD NOT BE TRUSTED...

"Skylar, I'm going to look at your print."...which meant they were working together. She didn't seem to have a partner yet...and he needed one. So, yes.

Now...WHAT was he looking at?

The redhead just kept looking at her foot. Huh. Did it REALLY look like that? Her foot, of course, not the mud. Mud always looked like that- disgusting and gooey and such. Although, it was sort of like a free moisturizer. Didn't muggle idiots PAY to take baths in a tub of mud? They called it a spa... Or was that wrong? Eh, she never did really pay attention in muggle studies anyway. It was confusing and there was always food to be eaten there anyways.

Tilting her head to the left, she continued to just stare at her foot. Merlin, she had a tiny foot. Well, she had a tiny pretty much everything. But her small size did not mean that she could not kick whoever crossed her. She rather liked kicking anyway. But that had NOTHING to do with this assignment.

Speaking of kicking, her most frequent victim to kicking was suddenly at her side and spouting off that he was going to look at her print. Woah, woah, woah. Did she not have a say in this? Oh who was she kidding? It was Dylan. They were working together because they just were and also she had a hunch that he was over by her for protection from the older Odessa.

Shrugging at him, she said, "Sounds like a plan. Where's yours, Dyl?" Because she needed to look at his too. And then she had to assess his foot...

...weirdest assignment EVER. And that included flossing man eating plants teeth. Oh Bentley.

"It's no problem,'' Jory responded cheerfully. "But thanks to you too.'' It was hard for him to find partners sometimes in classes and that was partially why he preferred to work alone. He read the parchment.

The badger looked up at Alyssa in surprise. "We have got everything in common,'' he said. "That's so cool!'' Who knew he had that much in common with his house mate. One would think they were related.

SPOILER!!: Bazinga

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Minerva looked at the snake tracks and tried to figure it out. "Well the snake looks like it was going slow and steady here, but as it keeps going it looks like it either was chasing something or maybe being chased." She followed the print a little while. "Yes, it is pushed down harder here like it was moving faster."

Minerva tried to think of what that could mean. Well it depended on what the snake was actually doing really. If it was scared by something and running that could mean that Minerva could be afraid of something or maybe something was making her change. She had so many changes in her life, was there really going to be another one.

If the snake was chasing after something else, then it could mean that she had found a goal that she was going to go after. That maybe there was a light at the end of a tunnel that was causing problems. Looking back towards Professor Elwood she decided to ask. "Professor, this snake print. It looks like the snake was just going steady and then either got scared or was chasing something. I have maybe figured out that it could mean two different things depending on which it could be. Is there anyway of figuring out which it could be?"

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Minerva listened to the next activity and felt excited to be able to make her own print. Oh she was excited to find out what it would mean and then felt nervous about needing to read someone else's. "Professor in Divinations is it common to maybe be good at some forms of readings and maybe not so good in others?" She just felt a little off with this reading and in other terms felt more confident and she wasn't sure why. Thinking this could be a good reason she decided to ask.

A good question. "Well as interpreters of anything there's no way you can be 100% sure of what happened unless you were there when it did. I think you've done a very good job with what you have done though." It definitely wasn't as easy as some may have thought.

"Yes, that's also very common." Miss Wheatborn was a curious little Puff wasn't she? "It's very rare for someone to be good at everything they attempt. There are forms of Divination I am not even good at." They wouldn't be studying them for that exact reason.

SPOILER!!: Aspen

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It was a reasonable request.

And Aspen would consider it.

Who knew if she could even get an eye out with her fingers? She might not have the tools. So, maybe she'd leave them..



The silent was silent, but boy did Aspen Odessa give a HUGE, INNER, MEANINGFUL sigh to all of that.

First, the Professor levitated her off of Dylan. Just when Aspen was getting somewhere.... Not to mention, him WIGGLING and struggling under her? Haha had she gotten to him after all? The Professor was totally interrupting something that needed to be done.

Then, Professor Elwood started squawking those stupid adult questions that don't have real answers. Followed by a REALLY bothersome comment about role models. If Elwood had ANY sort of inner eye, she'd know that Aspen was taking Dylan's eye out 1. because HE was her little brother's role model and had been flirting with her in class and 2. the Professor had more or less instructed her to do so.

So why had she lost points?

And ONLY her?

Typical. So typical. Aspen had NOTHING to say in response, so she just sat where she was placed. She did get her wand out though, you know, to prepare for feet washing. Ahem. That was why, sure.





He was doing it again. He didn't even KNOW that answered every question with an invisible question mark at the end of his sentence.

It was SO annoying.

Aspen wasn't making any prints, lest she go NEAR Dylan. Instead, she just watched from the sidelines, her wand tapping into her opposite palm. Her eyes, for the most part, just followed Dylan around with visions of...

...fun times... dancing in her head.

Callie stood, staring at the troublesome Claw to be sure she didn't do anything else until Dylan was safely away.

Good, no retorts. With one last glance at her, the Divination Professor went off to check on the other students' progress. She noticed that Aspen was drawing in the sand but she wasn't jumping on people and was quiet...what more could she ask for really?

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Melody started to squibble down her notes.
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Arch - short = aloof and unaware. long = live in the moment and active in there sroundings
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There short and simple for her to understand. Melody raised her hand while she put an imprint of her foot into the mud, "Professor, what if someone is thoughtful but more creative... as in thinks outside of the box than what is most logical? How would one be able to read what is right? ... oh how would we know who's footprint belongs to whom?" Make this difficult... why not.

"Very interesting question, dear and one that would come up." She looked at the print the girl was studying. "What I would say is if you think the toes are long enough to be considered to belong to a logical person if they are even close to being just medium length means they are creative, or if the toes are oddly shaped or sticking in different directions than usual." That would certainly be unique and creative.

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Alright, this class was just getting nuts. What on Earth did tracking animal prints and they environment have any anything to do with anything besides knowing an animal was here and who cares. Oichi did not care what was gonna come of her next actions, all she knew is that she was heated angry with this class. It was boring and teaching her nothing. She walked up to the Professor, "THIS CLASS IS IDIOTIC, HOW ON EARTH CAN ANIMAL REMAINS TELL THE FUTURE OF ANYTHING!!! AND DIVINATION ITSELF IS A JOKE EXCEPT FOR PERHAPS A FEW SEERS WHO HAVE A BLOOD LINE TO THAT NAME. THIS IS A WASTE OF MY TIME AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSES HERE!!! DIVINATION FOR THE MOST PART IS JUST STUPID!!!!!!!, Oichi did not care how the professor reacted. She wanted to say this and had wanted to for a really long time. DIvination classes used to just be fun stupid but this was stupid, stupid and she had just about had enough. She could not wait to see the professors reaction and was not scared of any detention that was sure to come from all this.

Callie had been about to start another round of checking up on the kids when a young Gryffindor approached her. She figured she just had a question about where to begin since she had noticed her standing off to the side before but she apparently didn't see what had just happened with the other students because she began to shout...at her.

Elwood was taken aback by the girl's audacity. Her face got redder and redder as the lion went on calling the subject she had devoted her entire life to stupid and a waste of time.

She said something about 'animal remains' which was odd because Callie didn't see any dead animals around, they were studying footprints, although she wasn't surprised by the girl's mistake she hadn't remembered her speaking up to answer a question or participating in the lesson until now.

Enough was enough, she had stayed as quiet and calm as possible until she couldn't any longer. "DETENTION!" Her shout was more shrill than when she had yelled at Aspen, that girl wasn't actually hurting anyone, this girl...she was personally attacking her as a Divination-enthusiast.

"You will NOT speak to me that way or about a subject that has been practiced and perfected by centuries of work, do you understand me? If you don't like it why did you attend my lesson today? It is an elective course Miss Paulidine. Now I would like for you to go back to the Castle immediately, you are no longer a part of this lesson and you will receive an owl about your punishment. I would suggest you think hard about attending my next lesson." Now, she wanted her out of her sight.

Breathing in deeply, Calista tried to compose herself for the other students. She felt like crying for having to yell at someone like that but she had basically called her a fake, right there in front of everyone, and that was NOT okay.

"Well, I attended it cause usually divination classes have been fun stupid in the past. This class is what I liked to call, stupid, stupid", Oichi responed to the professor and then without another word she left the ibosolic divinations class and headed back to the castle. The reaction of the professor had been priceless and so worth the detention she was gonna recieve for it.

Minerva smiled as she saw Ethan come up behind her. Looking down at her footprint "It's not the best because the mud is cold and squishy. I think you were reading my mind on working together." smiling she was glad he had come over to her even though she wasn't feeling confident in her readings.

Watching over his shoulder as he read her footprint, Minerva smiled. He seemed really good at this. "Well that all sounds good, except the alone part." Min frowned a bit she actually hated being alone.

Smiling again she took the parchment "That was great Ethan. Now it's your turn to play in the mud." Stepping back Min gave him room to do his footprint.