Sander sat quietly at his workstation, watching in awe at the sun he had created, when Professor Flamsteed began to speak giving instructions to everyone on what they needed to do next. They were going to make a planet now? Did he hear that correctly? He knew that he was having problems with his hearing, but did Professor Flamsteed just say that they were going to make a planet.

A smile began to grow on his face as he picked up his quill and began writing down the instructions in his journal as the Professor said them word for word.



Putting down his quill, Sander read what he had written. Then he got out of his seat and walked to the front of the room, to where the two large boxes were placed. He looked into the box on the right and looked around before picking up a flower from inside it. Then he looked over to the box on the left and picked out a small stone. Now that he had both, he returned to his workstation.

After receiving his pat on the back from the Professor.. which he thought was a good omen…. he saw more instructions scribble on the blackboard.. okay… time for a planet he thought while adding the things he needed to his notes.

getting up from his desk he moved over to grab some foliage from the box that indicated it and since he didn't have any more room in his hands it required another trip for the small stone.. he doubted the professor would want him to put it in his pocket to carry it.

Now at the box for the small stone he carried that back to his desk. Seeing that Sander was doing the same "you on step one and two??" he asked his mate.

Experiment with iron? No thank you. Caleb was all about doing the bare minimum today, since he'd basically exhausted all his energy just walking UP here. So he scooped out one scoop of helium and then five scoops of hydrogen and added them to his box. It was so weird to see these things in, well, not GAS form.

Now to make the sun! "Fingere Elementi!" he exclaimed as he jabbed his wand towards the pile of STUFF in the middle of his box. Swirl swirl swirl...he watched the stuff come together and create a tiny little sun, right there in the box. AWESOME! He'd done it on the first go! GO CALEB!

So where they making planets are just making stuff out of foliage. Couldn't he just say leaves. It was so much easier to say. This means he has to get up from his comfortable seat and venture to the front of the room to grab the leaves and stones.

Not something Nigel wanted to be doing. To bad the stuff was in boxes or he would be levitating it to his seat. Simple and lazy solution. All right time get up. And of course he hears a pop coming from his knees when he gets up. Just great.

He walks really slowly over to the foliage and stones as to not break anything. The Prefect grabs some random foliage and picks a cool looking stone from the other box.

Can not have some dumb looking planets in your solar system. They had to be Stellar.

Sander looked over when Bay enquired what he was doing. "Yeah mate. I just finished with that. I'm now moving on to grinding this stuff up." he whispered so that only Bay could hear his response.

Sander pulled over the mortar and pestle and looked at it. Should he clean this too? This wasn’t Potions class but Sander figured that he didn’t want any other foreign substances to mess up his planet making. So he unholstered his wand, and cleaned both the mortar and pestle, by casting the cleaning spell. Holstering his wand for the time being, he placed both the flower and the stone into the mortar. Then he picked up his measuring spoon, opened up the container with the powdered iron in it and scooped up two scoops. He added the powdered iron into his mortar before closing the container.

Replacing his spoon for the pestle, he began the process of grinding up the flower, stone and powdered iron. He first tapped the stone with the pestle trying to break it up, but all that did was cause the stone to bounce out of mortar and onto the desk.

OOOPPSS!!....

Sander quickly looked around to make sure no one had seen that happen as he quickly picked up the stone and place it back inside the mortar. Then he tried holding the stone in place with one finger, but he ended up hitting his finger with the pestle instead.

OOOWWWIIEE!!....

Sander sighed in frustration. Now how could a small stone cause him so much grief? Sander stared at the stone, before attempting to break it up again. Pointing his finger at it, he whispered softly so that no one else could hear him. “Stay!!” Then he aimed his pestle right in the center of it…and this time it broke into pieces.

Finally!!....

Sander proceeded to keep pounding and grinding on all three items in his mortar, until all three were successfully ground into powder and thoroughly mixed together.

Sander looked at his journal and picking up his quill, he scratched off the steps he had just completed.



Now to cast the spell.

So all the theory things were over?

FINALLY! cause practical was totally what Miss Abbi was into it.

Listening to most of the Professor's instructions she began at work when she got the go ahead. First her goggles were placed onto her face and then reached for her measuring spoons.

1 scoop of Helium. Whoosh, the Helium flew into her glass box. Could she have some for herself? Would it make her sound all squeaky. She eyed the Helium and smiling mischievously snuck a small amount in her pocket. Nobody saw that, nope.

Anyways, Hydrogen. She put five scoops and grabbed for her wand.

"Fingere Elementi!" She chanted but all that happened was a little boof! Not big enough to even come out the box though. Phew.

"Fingere Elementi!" She attempted again this time with a slightly more accurate jab.

Did it work?

Ohhhhh shinny white-like, yellowy thing. She had a sun, sun. Mr Golden sun. Wheeee.

Sander unholstered his wand and pointed it at the contents inside the mortar…and realized he had forgotten firstly, which spell it was and secondly, the incantation to said spell. Silently cursing his failing memory, he turned to his journal and looked it up.

'Right. Here it is. I used Fingere Elementi and the wand movement is a simple jab,' Sander thought to himself as he found the spell he had used to create his sun.

"Fingere Elementi….Fingere Elementi….Fingere Elementi" he first practiced saying the incantation again, and once he was ready to cast the spell, Sander jabbed his wand at the contents inside his mortar and said, “Fingere Elementi”. Holstering his wand, he watched to see whether the spell worked like it had before.

….and it looked like it did, because Sander could see the powdered contents inside his mortar begin to form together to create one mass and then begin to solidify. Sander knew that the phase change had ended when all that was left in his mortar was a swirling ball.

Now to make sure that the size of the planet was correct. Sander moved his mortar closer to the glass container and visually measured the swirling ball against the sun. From what he could tell, his planet was a tad smaller than the sun. Sander breathed a sigh of relief. As long as his planet was not larger than the sun or very much smaller than it, he was happy with the size.

Planet creation mission accomplished!!

He picked then up his quill, crossed out the step he had just completed and reviewed to see what he was supposed to do next.

Was his Dragon friend dieing? Adi of course had heard the explosion and yelp of pain but had not realised it was Benny until Professor Flamsteed yelled out. Rather energetically too for an old dude. Hehe. Anyway, Adi hastily looked around at his friend. "You okay, dude? Not too badly hurt, right?'' Really. Benny ought to be more careful.

Okay. They were moving on to making their first planet. Cool! Adi eagerly hobbled off to collect some foliage and a small stone. This was so fun! Who knew they could actually make something like this? Humming softly to himself, he set to work. The next step involved iron and a mortar, yes?

So the Professor wasn't a gentleman then and wasn't going to help her pick up the mess on the floor, well it wasn't really doing anyone harm so she would pick it up at the end of the lesson. She though was confused about this whole thing now the Professor said they were making a Sun why did she want to make a newspaper that she totally hated and why did she need her wand for that. This Professor was crazy and she was just wondering what to do or say.

Laura looked around to see if she could see anyone that could help her make this sun or what ever it was she had to make she was at a total lose of what it was and she wished this lesson would end soon before she lost her marbles completely.

"Awesome man, were both on the same step" he said as quietly as Sander was talking to him.. he did not want any more stink eyes from the professor. Looking down at his parchment he needed to add two scoops of iron to his mortar.. i better clean this out.. just in case he thought while looking at Sander doing the same thing.. smiling he said "Scourgify" to make sure everything was out of the mortar.. he then added his two scoops of iron.. alright… all three items should be in the mortar too.. "gahhh" he thought while quickly adding his foliage and stone.. "okay phewwww" he saw that Sander was having a hard time with crushing the stone.. as it jumped out.. "you alright mate?" he said while trying to be extra careful grinding up his ingredients. yay they were all now ground together in a fine powder.. next was the spell to create his planet.

Ohh so a planet too? Alright. She could do that, no problem.

First trying to listen she scribbled just a few notes down and then added some sketches along her letters. Just to make her notes look more exciting and all, you know? But she didn't have all day to sketch, not today anyways. After placing her quill down she went to the boxes.

Right first. Foliage. She picked a few leaves and then reached for the left box. She now had her small stone and foliage, which was what she returned to her working space with. The items were placed into her mortar along two scoops of iron and the grinding began.

Squishhhhhh.

Ben saw the nod, inwardly grateful no further sound came out of the professor's mouth. He slowly lowered his arms only to wince once more as as another explosion happened somewhere in the classroom. He vaguely looked around but couldn't notice where it was his whole sense of direction thrown off, but the professor seemed to be handling it anyway. Not his issue....just handle it with no more loud noises and voices please. His issue was to try and regain his hearing and continue on as Flamsteed described what they would all be doing for the second part of today's creation project.

A planet for their sun.

His hearing starting to improve, Ben heard Adi ask about him from beside. "Uh huh...I'm...okay."

For now.

The Gryffindor turned back to his work when his friend did as well. It was amazing, to say the least, to have the ability to recreate it with just a few simple ingrediants. But as the man had said, they would all learn how that all worked for the next class so they would just have to wait. For now, Ben got up to his feet with a groan, walking to the professor's desk and the two boxes . The second year retrieving two pieces of foliage from the box on the right and a stone from the box on the left before returning to his seat.

Now for the iron, he mused looking around at his work station. Iron...iron...where was the iron?

Time to create the planets? YEAH.

The grin was clearly displayed on his face as he made a small note of the next step in his journal with his quill... which... took another couple of seconds to find. Again. Quills were prone to being lost, right? Yeah. And he had more important things to focus on like the fact that they were going to be making a planet now! How AWESOME was that?

Very. Very awesome.

Once he was done, Alec placed his quill into the pocket of his robes -- don't disappear, yeah, quill? -- before slowly getting up and streeeee-- ... OW. No. No stretching, then. He'd just head up to the front and get... ... what was it again? He peeked over at his journal. Foliage and stone. That was all they needed for this first step? If it wasn't for the iron part, the boy would have been... a little... concerned? Confused? Yeah. Maybe.

Slowly ambling his way over towards the front of the classroom, Alec collected up some foliage from one box and stones from another before heading back towards his seat. The items were set down on his desk and... he eyed them for a bit. Foliage. Stones. And iron. ... He had some questions.

Adi eyed Benny. "Okay,'' he said finally. He was about to add "You should be more careful'' but decided not to. Him telling Benny to be careful would not actually make Benny be careful.

Now where was he? Oh yes! Iron! Adi cleaned his mortar using Scourgify. Yep. He had picked up the action of cleaning his instruments from that class. Next he added the two scoops of iron, the stone and foliage. He grabbed the pestle and began to crush the three ingredients.

Crush, crush, crush! And extra hits for the stone which seemed to be stubborn at first about crumbling apart but it eventually did.

CrushCrushCrush!

She did do it!

Ella grinned as she saw how excited Lux seemed, glad she was able to accomplish it on the first try. That was impressive, mhm. "You did. Nicely done, badger!" The eighteen year old laughed softly as she said she wanted to make more. "Maybe after we make the planets?" Maybe.



And hey, it looked like they'd be starting their planets right now!

The blonde did her best to listen to what Airey was saying, head titled so that her right ear was facing his direction. Best way to catch the instructions, this was. Then it was all quickly scribbled down before she forgot it. And that had been happening a lot lately, the forgetting thing. It was terribly annoying. She'd have to carry around a notepad with her name and house on it at this rate. Merlin! /Dramatic

Anyway, time to pick some foliage and a rock. Ella gave Lux an encouraging look and the very slowly got up from her seat and wandered over to where the boxes were placed. Foliage from the right, stone from the left. Easy peasy.

Ella selected a twig and a flower from the box of foliage and then turned her attention to the stones. She sorted through those for a bit, probably being more picky than was necessary. It was just that she wanted a pretty one, okay? That's all. And eventually she found one she liked, small and smooth and a pretty grey-blue color. Just like Alec's eyes.

Now where was that iron?

So now Bay had to do the same spell as he did for with the sun but he needed to put his crushed ingredients in his glass box first.. didn't want this planet out and about.. picking up his wand he jabbed it and said "Fingere Elementi" watching the ingredients mix together and create a small planet Bay smiled.. "cool" this was way to cool the planet was a lot smaller than his sun, which what was supposed to happen right?… Bay just loved Hogwarts more and more… especially with these awesome classes..

Looking down at his notes he scratched off what he had completed.. OHH WAITT!!! he didn't close the lid on his box yet.. quickly putting down his quill he closed the lid on his box.. "Phew" he wondered what would have happened if he left it open… hopefully nothing to bad. His planets stood still.. were they supposed to move, looking down at his notes to re-read them.. nope… we were starting that yet.. alright so all his steps were completed.. now all he had to do was wait for the next set of instructions.

Sander reviewed his notes and discovered that he had only one more step to complete for the task they had been assigned. Carefully picking up the swirling ball with his fingers, he tossed it into the glass container and watched it float near the sun. Then he closed the lid on the glass container, sealing both planet and sun inside.

Picking up his quill, Sander reviewed his notes one more time and scratched out the steps he had just completed.



Then he put down his quill and kept a close watch on the contents inside the glass container. He waited eagerly to see what Professor Flamsteed would tell them to do next.

Powdered iron.

Ella found this and carefully opened the container when she was back at her work space, having made sure her foliage and stone were safely placed off to the side. Then it was time to clean her spoon and mortar and pestle. That was sort of a force of habit, the cleaning. Professor Lafay having scared her into it at an early age and all that.

Once done, in went the flower, twig, and the stone. Then the Head Girl carefully scooped out some of the iron into the mortar. Two scoops would do, yeah? Yeah. Then it was time to grind it into a powder.

Her hand was aching a bit as she did this, working the pestle so that the stone and twig were crushed. Those two had posed the most trouble as the flower and iron were pretty easy to handle. Eventually everything was in powder form and Ella looked at her work carefully, satisfied with the end product. This should work nicely, she hoped.

Awesome! Lux gave Ella a thumbs up. This was going to be lots of fun. "Thank you for helping me, Badger!" Ella was so cool, and she was going to give her a Chocolate Frog after class since she knew that Professor Flamsteed would not like her doing it before then.

And speaking of Professor Flamsteed, she listened to him as carefully as possible, making sure to write down all the steps that she would need to do to make a planet. Seemed that it required more than doing the sun. Smiling, she followed after Ella, getting up from her seat and going to collect some foliage and a rock. Looking through the one box, she sifted through until she found two pieces of foliage that she decided to use. Then she looked through the other box until she found a nice pretty stone that was flecked with different colours. That was the first two steps done.

Well, time to bring his stellar stone and leaves back to his seat and use that mortar. Nigel slowly moved on back to his seat feeling better the closer he got to his seat. The Prefect flopped into his seat because that is what starfish do, Flop. It was in the song. He moved the mortar to be in front of him and added two scoops of iron into it. Next was the sad part for his stone. Grind all the items into a powder. It was a lot harder than Nigel realized. When where his arms ever this weak.

Finally done.

There grounded leaves, stone, and iron.

Oichi suddenly remembered that the sun is mostly made of Hydrogen and since hers was dimming she guessed she needed more of it so she tapped her wand twice over her sun and said, "Crescere Hydrogenenii", it brightened and felt relived. Soon after the next set of instructions were given and she felt shocked and elated. She did not expect she was gonna make a whole revolving solar system. She excitedly took out her rock, foliage, iron, and mortar and used her tools to grind them into a powder, “Fingere Elementi”, Oichi said as she jabbed her wand at the powder. She concentrated on that powder becoming a living planet and right before her eyes she saw it form. She smiled and then checked on her sun and saw that it was doing fine. She then sat back and waited for the next set of instructions.

It was time for her to get the powdered iron now. Finding a container of it, she headed back to her workstation so she could do the next part in making her planet. Setting everything down to the side, she opened the container and then went about magically cleaning her spoon, pestle, and mortar so that she could use them.

Placing the items she had collected from the boxes into the mortar, she then scooped out two spoonfuls of the powdered iron before closing the container again. With her pestle, she went about grinding everything up into a powder.

So now that he had his items, he had to move on, yeah?

Alec squinted down at his journal. Two scoops of iron... mortar. Crush all of the above items. Crushing things in a mortar seemed like hard work. He could almost sense the amount of energy he'd need to put into that. Energy that he didn't really have. Pulling the mortar and pestle closer to him, the boy held up his wand and cleaned both of those, along with the scooping spoon. Thank you, Potions class.

One scoop... two scoops of iron went into the mortar before the container was shut once more. He added in the foliage and the stone before holding up the pestle. This was it. Time to crush the items. He eyed the items in the mortar, especially the stone. Flamsteed had said something about this... right? Something about the stone...? ... Whatever it was, Alec couldn't remember it.

Shrug.

Bringing the pestle down, the Head Boy started crushing the items in the mortar. Crush... crush... this was tiring... crush... crush... This was really tiring. He was working at a steady pace, too, even taking a small moment to stand there and look around before crushing the foliage, stone and powdered iron mix. The stone was harder to crush than the others. Frown.

Once he was done, Alec let out a sigh of relief before... standing there. He was done, sure, so he could just... let himself rest, yeah? Awesome.

Leaving his sun where he'd been working, Tobias moved up to the front of the room and picked up a stone from one box and a couple of leaves from another. He kept his goggles on, because he thought they looked super cool on him. Like... SUPER cool. Chyeah.

When he turned back again, Tobias had to kind of... paused. Where was he working again? It was like that time he and his mother went to the supermarket one time and she forgot where she parked the car.

Uhhh...

... huh.

Eventually Tobias sort of worked things out by strolling along the desks and looking for the notes that he'd left out on his desk. They had his name on, so it was the easiest way of remembering where he'd sat. When he found the right desk, Tobias could have facepalmed. Of COURSE. HOW could he have forgotten that this was his seat. Gosh. Brain fart.

Okay, time to settle down and start on the next step.

Marigold reluctantly withdrew her gaze from Stella for star, but immediately got excited. "PLANETS?" she said to no one in particular, as she felt she needed to repeat this awesome thing, "WE GET TO MAKE PLANETSSS!?!??!?!" This class was offficially AWESOME. Though this class was usually.

So yeah. Foliage. Marigold happily plucked a piece of some sort of green plant from one of the boxes. Maybe they were making Earth? Next was a stone. She picked a pretty triangularly-shaped rock and named it Pointy.

... Merlin, she needed to stop naming everything! Or name EVERYTHING.