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The sun is just beginning to set on the horizon as you enter the Astronomy classroom. Many photographers, and even the romantic at heart astronomers, call this time of day the Golden Hour and consider it to be the most picturesque of sights. Which is probably why you are finding your Astronomy professor leaning against one of the stone windowpanes humming a certain song from a classic 1964 musical. The classroom is once again in its usual semicircle formation in front of the blackboard and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary - save the professor's shoes. Instead of his usual dress shoes he is wearing a pair of black sneakers. Something that would probably be considered a bit of a fashion faux pas to most. Including Professor Flamsteed. Most days that is.
So come on in and take a seat. The lesson will begin shortly.
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▸ first question :: A VERY IMPORTANT ONE
▸ second question :: do you know who this man is?
▸ third question :: what discovery did William Herschel make about Polaris?
▸ fourth question :: who can identify this object and what does it do?
▸ activity 1 :: sextant practice
▸ activity 2 :: put your sextant practice to the test! RUN AROUND THE SCHOOL!
▸ activity update :: 12 hour warning!
▸ wrapping up :: important activity announcement as well
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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"HOLY COMETS ME TOO!" he exclaimed, complete with some mild arm flapping. "Pity I have a no food or drink policy. MOVING ON NOW!"
And that was the end of that ice cream discussion. He was just curious who else felt like having some because he was practically drooling at the mouth right now. Oh, but someone had asked him about his favorite ice cream. "My favorite flavor would have to be Lunar Cheesecake. The muggle ice cream company Baskin Robins introduced the flavor to commemorate landing on the moon by Apollo 11."
True story.
"Last lesson we discussed Polaris, which sadly has little to do with ice cream other than there SHOULD be an ice cream flavor named after the star." Hmmm...he had thoughts about this. "More importantly, ish, we discussed how Polaris, our current North Star, remains stationary in the night sky and all other stars and celestial bodies rotate around it. This is due to the earth's spin and Polaris' location being very close to the north celestial pole of the earth's axis. This makes it the ideal point of reference for navigational purposes." And that about got them caught up. "We will continue our discussion of Polaris a bit more this lesson along with a sort of field trip." Just not to the kitchens. He wasn't really sure that the activity counted as a field trip, but they WOULD be out of the classroom, so close enough.
Tapping his wand on the blackboard, the professor removed the Disillusionment Charm he had placed on a portrait.
"Now, can anyone tell me who this gentleman is?"
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.
Sophie laughed when professor Flamsteed fooled the whole class. Hehehehe, that had been a good one! Though Sophie didn't quite know who that person in the picture was, so she decided to stay quiet.
It was odd the number of people who also didn't know who the guy was. Sophie had grown used to everyone knowing most things! Huh... maybe professor Flamsteed had finally gotten them all to-- oh, there were lots of people who knew who he was after all.
Never mind then! The badger listened as each student pretty much said a different name, and looked back at the picture, wondering which name suited the man better.
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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.
Airey paused as he looked at those who had either said no politely, rudely, or just said nothing at all. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THESE STUDENTS!? HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT ICE CREAM?! Dark wizards who had been polyjuiced perhaps? They were blowing their cover. Majorly.
Either that or these were students who had traveled from another dimension through a wormhole and...oh wait. That was in the science fiction novel he was reading. Har har imagination getting away with him again. Never mind.
"Pity," he said with a sad frown. 50 points from all your houses for making your professor sad. And the ice cream. Poor ice cream.
Just kidding though. No points are being taken..
"HOLY COMETS ME TOO!" he exclaimed, complete with some mild arm flapping. "Pity I have a no food or drink policy. MOVING ON NOW!"
And that was the end of that ice cream discussion. He was just curious who else felt like having some because he was practically drooling at the mouth right now. Oh, but someone had asked him about his favorite ice cream. "My favorite flavor would have to be Lunar Cheesecake. The muggle ice cream company Baskin Robins introduced the flavor to commemorate landing on the moon by Apollo 11."
True story.
"Last lesson we discussed Polaris, which sadly has little to do with ice cream other than there SHOULD be an ice cream flavor named after the star." Hmmm...he had thoughts about this. "More importantly, ish, we discussed how Polaris, our current North Star, remains stationary in the night sky and all other stars and celestial bodies rotate around it. This is due to the earth's spin and Polaris' location being very close to the north celestial pole of the earth's axis. This makes it the ideal point of reference for navigational purposes." And that about got them caught up. "We will continue our discussion of Polaris a bit more this lesson along with a sort of field trip." Just not to the kitchens. He wasn't really sure that the activity counted as a field trip, but they WOULD be out of the classroom, so close enough.
Tapping his wand on the blackboard, the professor removed the Disillusionment Charm he had placed on a portrait.
"Now, can anyone tell me who this gentleman is?"
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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?
Kace liked the idea of having an Astronomy related ice cream flavor. He would totally be the taste tester. That is for sure. But now the professor was moving on with the lesson and he didn't wanna get behind.
He took off the charm from the photo and he asked them what they thought he was. Kace gave the photo a quizzical look.
Ummm......
Yeah.......
He never saw this guy before. Kace raised his hand to be honest, "Professor i can honestly say i do NOT know this guy. Is he from another planet?"
Hence the little astronomy pun there? Nahhh alright at least he tried *shrugs*
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Anya Phillips was devastated. Completely and utterly devastated. The Gryffindor hid it well though. She was sporting the smile that was nearly always contently plastered on her face.
She'd... get some ice cream later. DOUBLE the ice cream actually. Dylan wasn't planning on eating any. And that delicious ice cream deserved to be eaten.
Anyway.
Her hand went up casually. "Her... shawl." Or something like that. That was actually the exact portrait hanging in a museum she'd been too. "He got famous for discovering things were close together. Which, is horrible. If I was born back then I'd be famous too. I can totally tell when things are close together."
She could multiply too. She was a double threat. She could cook too. She just wasn't sure that that was concerned a threat.
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No ice cream? Bummer. Maybe Penelope would get some later now that she was thinking about it. Or something else to eat. Or both. Yeah, that sounded good.
With that in the back of her mind, she focused back on the lesson.
Oh, a picture of some bloke she didn't know. Or...did she? Had Professor Burbage shown them someone like that? "Is it...Newton?" she asked/answered, raising her hand. Burbage's would-be husband. Penelope didn't really remember what he looked like exactly all that well, so she wasn't sure. She didn't really spend her time memorizing old astronomy guys' faces after all, especially not when she had a boyfriend who had a much nicer face to look at.
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He was sorry, alright? Like really REALLY sorry. The man really wanted ice cream and had seriously been considering lifting the ban on food and drink in his lessons just for it. But he just couldn't do it. Not IN his classroom at least. There were ways around that this lesson if students knew how to approach the situation. He certainly had found his loophole once the activity came around.
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No ice cream? Alice tried not to look too crestfallen.
Also, what in the name of Merlin was Lunar Cheesecake?
"I know who the guy is, professor!" Her hand was raised, and she waved it about for good measure before answering, too. Just in case Aireyhead was still thinking about ice cream- ice cream!!- and didn't see her. "An astronomer." .. well, obviously. Did they even talk about anything else in here? But she wasn't going to say his name, because he hadn't specifically asked for a NAME.
.. also, because she didn't know.
She did?! Excellent! Or, er....she sort of got it right. Good and safe deductive reasoning there, Miss. Fischer. Considering the subject and all. "An astronomer, yes. Yes he was."
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What's this? Who was that man? She could tell you who he wasn't; a bowl of ice-cream. More deadpan looks. "I don't think I've ever seen him before Professor." Came her almost inaudible response. The betrayal was still fresh you see. How could you do this to us, Airey????
Well then, there went Miss Cambridge spiraling down the bottomless pit that was her ice cream loving stomach. We are really sorry, honestly! "Thank you for your honesty, Miss Cambridge." That should earn him some kudo points back, right? Considering what her and Miss Wisteria had been thrown in detention for and all.
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Tag had absolutely no clue who that man was. An he was no genius and did not have a answer off the top of his hand, like some people did. So he merely made a comment about this man " Professor he looks like he could be some guy involved in politics. They all look and dress funny with those weird ruffled collared blouses. But, I'd say he's a political astronomer!?" If that was even a possible occupation. Tag held back a quiet laughing fit. No he'd not burst out of laughter from his answer. What was the point in lying his answer?
"Sometimes astronomy and politics overlap," he nodded thoughtfully. "Especially in the beginning. The entire space race of the 1950s and '60s to put the first man into space was argumentally politically driven." You know, United States of America against the Soviet Union.
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ANYWAY. Regardless of the utter annoyance she felt over not getting the ice cream, and...how much she didn't care about Lunar Cheesecake (she would've under different circumstances), Lottie didn't feel like answering. She even had her arms crossed and everything, but...SIGH...this was Airey, so, she'll answer. "A scientist of sorts." Hand was raised, yes, and now was put down.
THAT is the only answer he'll get. For now.
Miss Wisteria looked almost as bad as she had when she had come to visit his office. Okay okay, he wouldn't try and punk students in this manner again. He couldn't handle the tears nor comparing himself to Erik who had essentially tortured Miss Wisteria during her detention.
"Yes, yes he was."
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Whew. She had avoided complete disaster there. Because there was no telling what these ice cream crazed lunatics were capable of. But her wand was at the ready, just in case. Right there at the very end of her sleeve, ready to slide into hand at a moments notice.
And onto something actually related to Astronomy now. "That's Galileo." At least, she was pretty sure that's who it was.
Airey shook his head. "Not Galileo. Doesn't have that snappy beard that Galileo has in his portraits." Airey couldn't really grow a proper beard, for the record. Ended up coming in all patchy. She he was rather jealous of Galileo.
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Marigold was still thinking about ICE CREAM when Professor asked the question.
"He definitely looks familiar... either a scientist or an astronomer?" she said.
OOoh, Lunar Cheesecake sounds yummy!
Ah yes, more deductive reasoning. "Both, actually," he nodded before moving on.
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"Copernicus." He was wrong, but he tried nevertheless to say something.
"A good guess, but this is not Copernicus. Copernicus is usually depicted with black hair, not white." Just for reference and in case he ever gave a little who's who in astronomy sort of quiz.
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"William Herschel, sir. He discovered Uranus, Oberon and Titania..."...and he knew THAT because his baby brother's middle name was Oberon...AND they'd talked about this guy last term, hadn't they? The Slytherin seemed to remember him from Burbage's class, too...
Depression over not having ice cream in the classroom found temporary relief with the Slytherin quidditch captain's answer. "YES! It most certainly IIIIIIIIIS!" he cheered as he, yes, jumped on top of the boy's desk. It was an easy way to grab everyone's attention when a good answer had been given.
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Scratching the back of his head, Daichi tried to recall his name. Argh what was it again? Something with Her...Herman? no no that didn't sound right. Herschman? no..Her...Herschel? DING-DING-DING a light bulb seemed to go off in Daichi's head and he shot his hand up in the air. "That's Herschel, professor! He was an astronomer and composer!" PROUD BEAM! "And judging by that name, he sounds German" NOD NOD it was a total German name wasn't it?
Did anyone else think that when Mr. Katharos pouted he looked like a duck? Anyone else? Or was it just him?
Thankfully the boy's desk was not too far away from Mr. Montmorency's, so he easily leapt from one to the other with a unusually big smile on his face. More unusual than usual that is, which was really saying something. "RIIIIIIIIGHT you are!"
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Sarah looked at the picture and nervously raised her hand, "I do not know exactly who it is but by his hairstyle I surmise that he lived in the 1700s or the 1800 and when this picture was taking was living in France or Germany, maybe even America. All this I get from his hairstyle, maybe they also had hair peices like that in other countries. Due to the lesson I guess h is a astronomer as well" not the exact answer yet she tried.
Miss Edwards did tend to give the more out of the box answers, which he appreciated greatly as it kept things interesting. Especially when she was correct. "Very interesting, Miss Edwards. Our mystery person actually lived from November 15, 1738 to August 25, 1822."
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No. Theo didn't want ice cream, so he wasn't overly bothered when the professor revealed that he didn't even have any. That was a little bit harsh to everyone else, though. He vagely listened to his summary of the last lesson, and thankfully, he still remembered most of it. As for the picture, Theo had no idea. "He looks like a judge with that hairdo." You know, how they wear those long white wigs and stuff?
"Ah, you must mean the wigs of the parliament," Airey replied. He had to wonder if the Wizengamot wore those too. He had never been to a trial, so he really had no idea. Would be funny to see though. Wigs. Heh. "I think we are all appreciative that this is no longer a typical and expected hairstyle of men."
Although that would also be funny to see.
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Now, there was a picture of a man. A very old man seeing how his hair looked liked. Poor man. "Ummm.....A man with bad hair," she answered her eyes fixed on the hair. Why couldn't he fix his hair with a potion or a charm or something. Were they going to learn about hair. Maybe hair had something to do with the stars. Could be.
"Not bad. Different. Different for the time period," he corrected sternly. Do not insult astronomers in his presence. Did not bode well.
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She raised her hand and spoke. “I think that he is just a old man who is probably already death” She eyes the clothes he wore and spoke further. “I also think that he has studied Astronomy, I’m guessing this because, well, this IS a Astronomy lesson…”
Twitch. Stare some. Twitching more. He had a hard time telling if she was just being blunt, rude, or what. "He is, unfortunately, no longer with us, yes." And he was going to mooooove along now.
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"A famous dead person who discovered something," Melanie offered, raising her hand.
Because all famous dead people who had discovered something in their life seemed to look like that.
Ah, interesting answer. "Ironically, Miss Sung, many of the great scientific minds in history did not receive their fame until after their deaths due to their ideas being too far from the accepted status quo. Yet they never ceased their research. We owe a lot to these great minds. Not to mention a very important life lesson as well." Just something to think about.
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Right now, though, the final year badger was staring at the portrait and trying not to think of ice cream. The man's portrait looked vaguely familiar but Jory couldn't quite place him. "Erm...I can't remember his name, Professor,'' he said honestly. "But it's probably an astronomer?''
"I appreciate your honesty as well," he nodded towards the seventh year. "And he most certainly was."
Although it was a preeeeeeetty safe assumption that all pictures of people he showed in his class were astronomers.
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That guy was weird and Nigel had no idea who he was. But he had read up on some interesting characters from that show Flamsteed watches. So lets go with that.
"It is either Khan or The Borg Queen is disguise. You can never be too careful."
It was probably some famous astronomer or someone. But where is the fun in that.
And he said this complete with clenched fists and a slightly distorted face.
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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.
Look at all those Slytherins on a roll. Or sticking together. How very Hufflepuff of them! Airey leapt from Mr. Katharos' desk to Miss Hudon's and did a little happy dance before jumping off finally. "Very good, Miss Hudson."
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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?"
"Dumbledore wishes he were as handsome as this fellow," Airey chuckled at the boy's response. The professor had also been told that if you stared at the picture long enough, changed the hair, and took off a few years that it looked like him.
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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.
Oops. He was back to jumping up on desks again. This time the one belonging to Miss Ella. "Excellent, Miss Ella! He did indeed." But Saturn would be a discussion for another term and not today.
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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"
"No, this is not Christopher Columbus," he said with some rapid head shaking.
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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.
"Ah, another good guess, but no. This is not Edmond Halley." And if students thought that the man on the board had interesting hair then they clearly had not seen a portrait of Edmond Halley.
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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.
Mr. Summers got chuckles. All the chuckles. "All very true, Mr. Summers."
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Sophie laughed when professor Flamsteed fooled the whole class. Hehehehe, that had been a good one! Though Sophie didn't quite know who that person in the picture was, so she decided to stay quiet.
It was odd the number of people who also didn't know who the guy was. Sophie had grown used to everyone knowing most things! Huh... maybe professor Flamsteed had finally gotten them all to-- oh, there were lots of people who knew who he was after all.
Never mind then! The badger listened as each student pretty much said a different name, and looked back at the picture, wondering which name suited the man better.
Attentive listening from Miss Campbell, good enough for him. She got a quick salute before he looked to the next student.
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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.
Was it just him, or did the Head Girl always seem to be giving him strange looks? If she needed to use the restroom or something she was more than welcome to. She did tend to look uncomfortable all the time in his lessons. Hmmm.
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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.
What had this one's wand in a knot? Had Miss Greenwell eaten his dinner or something? Had he hurt the boy's feelings with the ice cream joke? No matter, as long as he was listening all was well.
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He never saw this guy before. Kace raised his hand to be honest, "Professor i can honestly say i do NOT know this guy. Is he from another planet?"
Hence the little astronomy pun there? Nahhh alright at least he tried *shrugs*
"This man is no extraterrestrial," Airey chuckled. "Although his thinking and methods were out of this world for his time." Good humor there, young padawan.
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No ice cream? Bummer. Maybe Penelope would get some later now that she was thinking about it. Or something else to eat. Or both. Yeah, that sounded good.
With that in the back of her mind, she focused back on the lesson.
Oh, a picture of some bloke she didn't know. Or...did she? Had Professor Burbage shown them someone like that? "Is it...Newton?" she asked/answered, raising her hand. Burbage's would-be husband. Penelope didn't really remember what he looked like exactly all that well, so she wasn't sure. She didn't really spend her time memorizing old astronomy guys' faces after all, especially not when she had a boyfriend who had a much nicer face to look at.
"No, this is not Newton," Airey replied with a shake of the head, similar to that of a wet dog getting out of a pool of water. You know, just for emphasis.
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Her hand went up casually. "Her... shawl." Or something like that. That was actually the exact portrait hanging in a museum she'd been too. "He got famous for discovering things were close together. Which, is horrible. If I was born back then I'd be famous too. I can totally tell when things are close together."
She could multiply too. She was a double threat. She could cook too. She just wasn't sure that that was concerned a threat.
"EXCELLENT MISS PHILLIPS!" he applauded, but refrained from jumping on her desk for now.
He couldn't have asked for a better segway into his next question. So good for you young lady!
"As some of you guess, this man is William Herschel. He was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer who is known for making many scientific breakthroughs in the field of astronomy. Among those are his discovery of the planet Uranus and its two major moons and the two moons of Saturn. He is also the first to discover infrared radiation and has 24 outstanding symphonies that I suggest you all listen to. Especially for those of you who will be studying for your OWLs and NEWTs. Helped me out quite a bit when I was a studying student." Just so they all knew.
"Now, Miss Phillips touched on something very important and relevant to our discussion of Polaris. Can anyone tell me what discovery Herschel made in regards to it?"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Melanie blinked blankly at the professor's response.
Was the professor trying to tell her something? Because she didn't understand the hidden message behind it but she felt like she should if there was a message. Nah, there probably wasn't. So the Gryffindor just nodded her head and jotted down in her notes "famous people became famous after they died" and then after that "that will not be me". Because she wasn't going to do science unless being a singer was considered science which in a way probably could.
Melanie instantly started to listen upon hearing the word 'composer'. That was music related.
Wait. And then he was talking about Anya's answer. Melanie had to think about that one. "Did he find a star that was attracted to Polaris? Like... Polaris's soul mate or something?" And did they get married? She wondered who officiated that ceremony. Everyone in attendance must've been so starstruck. And inner giggling because starstruck... star... struck... hehe. Yeah, no more inner giggling. Time to focus.
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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.
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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.
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What on EARTH (...on EARTH? HAHAHA Astronomy...) was THIS class about? She wiped sleep out of her eyes, but was chuckling all the same, looking around for a seat.
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"Now, Miss Phillips touched on something very important and relevant to our discussion of Polaris. Can anyone tell me what discovery Herschel made in regards to it?"
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.
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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."
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Anya beamed proudly. The Professor liked her answer! Yayyy. She deserved ice cream. Yes she did. The Professor should give her some. And stick her in anti-detention.
If detention existed, there had to be an opposite situation... right?
Anyway. What were they talking about again? Attraction. Anya knew loads about attraction. Of course, not all of it would be relevant here.
Her hand shot up again. She wanted more hyper Professor praise.
"He found a lot of double star systems. Since they were close together they sort of orbited around each other." Or maybe it was the other way around: Since they rotated around each other, they had to be close together? It was kind of a chicken/egg scenario, wasn't it?
Anyway.
"Anyway. Kind of like the us and moon there's a force that rotates them together." A force that involved math and a calculator and computers and telescopes... and effort.
... and speaking of gravitational orbits... she wondered if anyone had made a ballet about them. Because. If not, that could totally be her claim to fame. The star paths practically already choreographed the entire thing.
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Answers, answers, and more answers. Tag really didn't know much about this guy, hence his comical answer earlier. So, he did not have much background information on this Herschel. Which, by the way, made Tag want to have chocolate . But, the only thing that popped into his mind about anything star, or astronomy related was " North Star? I don't know. Something about it. That's one of the stars I've heard is really popular? Yeah?" Tag answered and asked rather blindly. Yeah. He didn't know too much at the moment. But, he would get to taking his notes very soon.
Checking his sundial watch one last time, Airey gave his wand a quick flick to close the door to the classroom. "Alright, let's get started," his voice boomed through the classroom. Making his way front and center, Airey furrowed his brow slightly and his expression turned very VERY serious. "To start things off I have a VERY important question to ask, WHO WANTS ICE CREAM?!"
She loved this time of day. It really made all pictures look extra pretty and the leaves on trees looked like gold. The grasses were extra heavenly too. She glanced at her school shoes, which were mostly definitely comfortable, and wondered if they'd be playing ina wheat field or something, since those always looked really beautiful at this time of day. But this was astronomy, and she wasn't really sure what that would have to do with it.
Her eyes lit up at this first and very imporant question, because yes. Yes she did want ice cream. She shot her hand up in the air and waved it like she just don't care."Oo! I do, Professor! I love ice cream! It's so great and there are so many kinds! You can never run out of flavors because ice cream can be ANY flavor, kind of like a Bertie Bott's Ever Flavour Beans except better because it's so cold and sugary and you can put toppings on it!!" She was nearly on the edge of her seat with anticipation.
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"HOLY COMETS ME TOO!" he exclaimed, complete with some mild arm flapping. "Pity I have a no food or drink policy. MOVING ON NOW!"
And that was the end of that ice cream discussion. He was just curious who else felt like having some because he was practically drooling at the mouth right now. Oh, but someone had asked him about his favorite ice cream. "My favorite flavor would have to be Lunar Cheesecake. The muggle ice cream company Baskin Robins introduced the flavor to commemorate landing on the moon by Apollo 11."
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"Last lesson we discussed Polaris, which sadly has little to do with ice cream other than there SHOULD be an ice cream flavor named after the star." Hmmm...he had thoughts about this. "More importantly, ish, we discussed how Polaris, our current North Star, remains stationary in the night sky and all other stars and celestial bodies rotate around it. This is due to the earth's spin and Polaris' location being very close to the north celestial pole of the earth's axis. This makes it the ideal point of reference for navigational purposes." And that about got them caught up. "We will continue our discussion of Polaris a bit more this lesson along with a sort of field trip." Just not to the kitchens. He wasn't really sure that the activity counted as a field trip, but they WOULD be out of the classroom, so close enough.
Tapping his wand on the blackboard, the professor removed the Disillusionment Charm he had placed on a portrait.
"Now, can anyone tell me who this gentleman is?"
But...but.... Well that was just plain MEAN, she thought, a bit disgruntled. But not for long, because Airey just had that effect on people. It might've had something to do with his general bounciness too.
She took a long look at the photograph and not really having much of an idea other than it was most likely an astronomer, she raised her hand to guess. "Is it Cassini, Professor?" She thought she'd heard that name somewhere before, but she wasn't totally sure.
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"As some of you guess, this man is William Herschel. He was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer who is known for making many scientific breakthroughs in the field of astronomy. Among those are his discovery of the planet Uranus and its two major moons and the two moons of Saturn. He is also the first to discover infrared radiation and has 24 outstanding symphonies that I suggest you all listen to. Especially for those of you who will be studying for your OWLs and NEWTs. Helped me out quite a bit when I was a studying student." Just so they all knew.
"Now, Miss Phillips touched on something very important and relevant to our discussion of Polaris. Can anyone tell me what discovery Herschel made in regards to it?"
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.
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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.
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. But, the only thing that popped into his mind about anything star, or astronomy related was " North Star? I don't know. Something about it. That's one of the stars I've heard is really popular? Yeah?" Tag answered and asked rather blindly. Yeah. He didn't know too much at the moment. But, he would get to taking his notes very soon. 
