Kat did like ice cream, but she believed that now wasn't the right time to have that. She wasn't in any mood to eat ice cream, sadly. So if Professor Flamsteed was sad and stuff, she was sorry. But anyway... that dude. The prefect squinted at the image.

Familiar. Yes, it seemed like someone she recognized. But, oh yeaah. What captain said. That was him, yep. Kat didn't wanna repeat answers all over again though but... well, whatever. It was still the correct answer. The prefect raised her hand up. "What they said, Professor," she nodded. "William Herschel." And no explanation as to WHY because, obviously, Dylan had said everything. Most of it. You still got the point.

Oh.

Well.

Okay then.

Tobias lowered his hand and wibbled slightly for a moment before remembering that it was A-OKAY because at first he hadn't even wanted ice cream. Only, you know... if there was any going.

And there wasn't.

SO NO NEGATIVE VIBES FROM HIM.

With regards to the question Tobias looked at the portrait and tilted his head aaaaaaaaaaall the way to the right... and then aaaaaaaaaaaall the way to the left... and then aaaaaaaaaaaall the way to the right again... and then raised his hand.

"Dumbledore?"

She wasn't that disappointed about the ice cream, okay? And her chin totally didn't wobble a bit when Airey-face crushed her ice cream dreams without a second thought. Yup, it didn't at all. Sighhhhhh. Anyway, back to class.

Oh. Portraits. Ella was still feeling bad for portraits in general since the goblins had grossly mistreated the ones she'd been near during the erm... goblin-napping. Yeah, poor portraits. As for this one she was being shown now, Ella quite agreed with Theo about the judge comment. His hair just wasn't doing it for Ella. She thought he needed a good shampooing if she was being honest. Well that was if it was even his real hair. It probably wasn't. Gran was the wig expert in the family so she'd have to write her on this to be sure but anyway...who was that dude?

Oh...That Wilhelm guy. Ella had heard about him before. "If it is Herschel, I read that he discovered Saturns moons as well which is pretty neat." Mini!smile.

Laura looked at the Professor and raised her hand "ACHOOOOOOOO!" Laura sneezed again, she wished this cold would go away, she knew it would eventually, "Is it Christopher Columbus?" Laura decided that she would guess. "He found loads of different places and was key in finding new lands"

Asher studied the gentleman for a moment before shooting his hand in the air, "I know, that's Edmond Halley." At least he hoped it was. He knew it was some old important guy.

Did Tag realise that he just got major best mate points? Did he? Alec GRINNED WIDELY over at the blonde when he mentioned that Alec would like some ice cream too. SEE? The boys knew each other really well! It was just a pity that their common rooms were so far apart. They could meet up for ice cream a lot more often.

And speaking of ice cream, Flamsteed had none. Oh. Sadface. The Hufflepuff had been getting excited about having some ice cream! Like REALLY excited! But... if the Professor didn't have any on him right now, that didn't mean that they couldn't get some afterwards, right?

Also, Lunar Cheesecake? That was an ice cream flavour? REALLY?

When Cassia pointed out the hair thing, Alec leant a little closer and examined the hair carefully. That... was sad, actually. That his hair was... well... Poor dude. But it did look like he had better hair back when he was younger so... still. Poor dude. ... And people... knew who he was? HOW?!

Tentative hand!raise. "Erm... he discovered something to do with Astronomy and we're going to learn about it?" That really was the best he had.

Live long and prosper? Erm....what was the meaning of that? It was a little funny how weird Airey was, but that...what he had just said..it kinda creeped Nessie out just a little bit. Anyways Professor Flamsteed seemed harmless to her. As for shoes. Yep. Yep. She had a comfy pair on...so the lesson would begin soon then?

Yeeep. It would, because begin it did.

Ice cream. Did she want? Heh why not...but she didn't raise her hand just yet, she decided to wait for it to be passed around, because surely everyone would get if he asked them if they wanted. Yeah? Maybe not in this case. Mellow. She just blinked at him and stared a little. Okaaay then. Because that was totally normal.

First proper question, eventually. Not that Ness knew how to answer it. You know she didn't exactly read books about astronomers all day, which she assumed this man was one. But no answer for you, Airey, on this one. Sorry.

Ha. Like Ascanius knew or cared who this guy was in the picture. He looked like he was from probably around 1920 at LEAST. You know, a really OLD guy.

So he was just gonna sit back and let everyone else..........yeah, figure it out. Whatever. He wasn't in the mood right now. Ascanius was in UGLY shoes, yeah?

Pfft. Unhappy Slytherin.

O___o

And...Ella had an Airey on her desk. The blonde nearly fell out of her chair but managed not to fall, instead looking up at the man with a startled smile. She'd rather have ice cream on her desk, y'know, Professor. She was still a bit cross about that.

Anyway, back to the Herschel dude. "Professor Airey? I think he was the guy that found Polaris' companion star. Erm...the one that revolves around it." Which was kind of nice, Polaris having a buddy and everything.

Oh! Oh, she knew what the guy did and who he was. Just not what he looked like.

Blaming the focus issues on ice cream, okay?

"Polaris B," Alice started, raising her hand to elaborate on her co-captain's excellent answer, "was discovered by him and it made it into a binary system. Or two star. Whichever. A third one was found and made it a triple star system, but this guy didn't figure that out."

She shot Ella a thumbs up and then went back to inspecting the professor's shoes.

...

He was thanking her for her honesty instead of pulling out a bowl of ice-cream and handing it to her for his lame joke just now? You couldn't eat honesty. She tried to tug the corners of her lips so there would be something resembling a smile but that 'joke' just now killed her.

It was just as she'd thought. She'd never heard of him before.

Lex propped her elbows on her knees and rested her chin on her palms as she watched the Professor correcting everyone and finally talking more about the man she didn't know. Question. If she didn't know him, how was she meant to know what he'd done involving polaris? The theory part of any lesson usually never went well with her and it didn't help that she felt dejected.

Professor, don't kill her mood every again. While she waited for everyone else to answer she tried getting her bounce back. She needed her enthusiasm for this class. Come on Lex, think bouncy.

She would make an attempt, if only for the sake of getting to talk. "Was he the one that discovered that the star never moves but is a fixed point?" Someone had to have figured it out. Maybe it was him.

O_O

Well. Somebody did not like Khan. From what Nigel read it was understandable. But Still. See a famous astronomer and maker of symphonies. Could not be that good if Nigel had never heard of him.

"He discovered Uranus."

Nigel said it correctly of course. He did not want to seem too immature.

It was a Funny word. If you don't say it correctly. Though he could not remember reading anything about Polaris.

Mind still occasionally returning to ice cream, Jory listened to a few responses before raising his hand. "He discovered another Polaris, Polaris B, I think it's called which is one of the smaller stars that are erm related to Polaris.'' So Jory thought. He hoped he got at least part of it right as he had read this a while back.

Hmmm. How was Mo supposed to randomly recognize strange men in powdered wigs? Was this a trick? A way to make Flamsteed feel better about himself, since he was obviously already so pleased with himself for smooching Mo's favorite professor/pretend girlfriend? HMMMM?

He stayed perfectly upright in his seat and watched the errant Gryffindor enter the room before raising his hand, half hoping to distract the professor from taking points from the ickle. "Polaris is actually a multiple star, sir, and Herschel discovered the second star in the system using an uber powerful telescope for the time."

Oh, okay, so she was wrong about who it was. But that was all right because she had known it was just a shot in the dark anyway. She was terrible with remembering faces. Especially faces of those she'd never met and had only seen in a photograph from a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Okay so...Herchel. Sounds like Hershey. Makes me want chocolate. But aside from that, what did he do in relation to Polaris? Well, I have no idea. She tried to quietly flip through her book to find out. She wasn't being quiet because she thought trying to find some shred of education on the topic wasn't allowed, but because she didn't want to be too loud. And because she was sort of hoping Airey would start singing and jumping across desks again because she liked it when he did that. After a quick review, she raised her hand. "Well, Professor, he was the first to notice the solar system was actually moving through space. So maybe that has something to do with the fixed position of Polaris?" How, she wasn't really sure but she thought if everything else was moving, maybe it would make it easier to learn more about the things that were holding still? She kept her notebook out, ready to write important things about it - and also, maybe to think up some new ice cream flavors because that was important too.

Galileo was the one with the beard. Noted. And did anyone else jump when Professor Airey randomly yelled? Just her? Okay. Plus, Gryffindor just lost points with a firstie coming in late. So, all in all, a good lesson so far. But that question, Sky had no clue what the answer was. At all. But some of her classmates were saying it was Polaris B. Great potential for a joke there. She wasn't going to go there, though. Nope, she was just going sit here and listen. Mmm hmmmm.