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While the rest of the class had filed in and Flamsteed made with the greetings and stuff, Toby had opened up the packet and already taken out a balloon too. He'd been about to start blowing it up with Soph sat beside him, but deviated from that to give her a bright grin. And then a few moments after THAT, the class had started, and Airey mentioned leaving the balloons IN the bag, so Toby hurriedly stuffed it back inside. Nothing going on here. Nope.

.................. JOGGING LAPS???!!?11!?!!?!??!1!1?!?!!!ONE!!?!11?!1!

At the mere suggestion of getting to do such a thing in class, Toby's expression positively lit up and his eyes sparkled. He flashed another grin to Soph when he sensed her looking at him, and jumped straight up out of his seat. The extra layers could make this a very sweaty process, but whatever. RUNNING.

Toby ran. It was hard to keep it down to a jogging pace if he was honest, but the important part was that they were able to move. And Airey had asked them a question, and Toby was pretty sure the answer had been said a few times over, so he simply said the next word to come to mind.

"Volcano!" Runrunrunfromthelava.

There might have been some fiddling with her packet of balloons. If Airey was already working on some then it must have been acceptable right? Wrong. They weren't going to be blowing up anything until after they did some jogging apparently. Given the temperature outside and the way she felt absolutely cramped on the inside having lost the privilege of going outside, Lex wasn't bothered. Hell she was all too happy to hop out of her seat and get into the poorly constructed line of joggers.

Oh look, even Airey was jogging with them.

The question could have had severeal answers if you really thought about it and given she didn't know which he was looking for she went with the most obvious response. Those were all the basic ingredients for, "This lesson today."

Jog jog jog.

Unless they were completely unrelated in which case nevermind her, she would jsut...get warmed up jogging in her own little bubble over here. Ahem.

Bay smiled when the balloon popped, he he he. ohhh they needed to be doing some running.. jumping up he followed everyone else in the room… doing laps.. and what he had to answer questions while he was running… talk about multitasking.. Almost out of breath he said "the atmosphere?" he really wished he could stop and take a drink right now.

panting and sweating he wondered when they were going to stop all the running.. because he was plenty warm now.

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Originally Posted by Meizzner (Post 11633323)

"Something Stellar".

“Certainly is!”

And that was all he had.

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Originally Posted by Awarlesta Black (Post 11633333)

Walking like he said he would, (although not fast) Declan thought about the question being asked and shouted out, "PLANETS?? STARS??"

Well, technically speaking, the Hufflepuff wasn’t wrong...but in the context of the term he wasn’t correct. The astronomer simply shook his head in response since someone else was shouting out an answer at approximately the same time.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar (Post 11633382)

Then it was question time, and the first thing that came to her mind was blurted out. "Balloons." What was the question again? Errr... Just keep jogging. Maybe he didn't hear her over everybody else's shouts.

“Yes! We will be using balloons today! A little more patience!” he shouted for clarification. That had been what she had meant by balloons, right?

SPOILER!!: the FART answer and the misinterpretated FART answer :3

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Originally Posted by HOPEendures (Post 11633399)

"Climate!" Yep. Awesome. And she kept jogging.

“Yes and no, Miss Evans!” he replied, having spotting the Ravenclaw as she answered. “We need to be careful with terminology. Climate refers to the weather of a place averaged over a period of time, usually around 30 years, and something a bit too long term than what we are discussing today.”

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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny (Post 11633423)

Pressure... temperature... volume... density... ???? "Fun," Sophie added to the chorus of answers. Out-of-the-box sort of answers were always safe kinds of answers with Flamsteed, weren't they? Probably? Heh.

He couldn’t entire see who had shouted out this answer as several entered his ears at the same time, but he did like it. So he raised both of his arms high into the air and gave two very enthusiastic thumbs up.

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack (Post 11633432)

Zander had absolutely no clue. Hearing Sophie's answer he snorted. If anything none of this was fun. It was tiring. "Uh not cauldron cakes, that's for sure."

Someone had cauldron cakes? That was really all he could hear over the chorus of responses. “NO FOOD IN THE ASTRONOMY TOWER!”

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Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi (Post 11633442)

But then the tricky part came, answering questions while they were jogging? Kevin groaned but still listened to the question and his mind went blank after it was asked. Pressure, temperature and volume what? "SOMETHING!" He suddenly blurted out. He had no idea what the answer to the question was but everyone was shouting things and Kevin didn't want to be left out.

Well, yes, obviously. Everything had to do with something. So not exactly an incorrect answer, although it was a rather obvious and vague one. Still, brief and flaily thumbs up to whoever that response had been.

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow (Post 11633509)

"A hot air balloon ride?"

“IF ONLY THE WEATHER CONDITIONS WOULD ALL FOR IT!”

Because what better way to study the atmosphere than to go up into it?

“Will certainly keep that in mind for the future!”

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Originally Posted by HogwartsStudent11 (Post 11633672)

Marisol thought. And then she thought some more. Maybe she knew the answer. And maybe she didn't. But her best friend (back in Spain) Sara's father was a muggle physicist. Before she had thought it to be the dullest profession So she could be on the right track.

"The Law of Ideal Gases?" If that was even a thing. Her memory could be a liar.

Oooooooh! There was a stellar term being thrown about! “There is some correlation, yes!” Although not the answer that he was looking for.

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Originally Posted by Felixir (Post 11633684)

"Volcano!" Runrunrunfromthelava.

Mr. Hirase? Airey couldn’t tell who had shouted this answer, but he was brought back to the conversation in his office about Spock and how the Gryffindor had misheard the name of the Vulcan’s home planet.

So instead of answering, he lifted up his one hand and did the Vulcan salute as he continued to lead the group around the classroom at a brisk jog.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo (Post 11633698)

The question could have had severeal answers if you really thought about it and given she didn't know which he was looking for she went with the most obvious response. Those were all the basic ingredients for, "This lesson today."

A very awe inspiring response from Miss Cambridge. Shaking his head in mild amusement, he gave the prefect a slightly unamused look before nearly tripping over his own feet as he sped forward.

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Originally Posted by Cassirin (Post 11633314)

But that question, though... that question had him totally stumped. Mo jogged silently for a few seconds before offering a very unlikely, "Thermodynamics?" Because sure... why not?

Picking up his pace a bit more, his already eager smile widened a bit further with Mr. Branxton’s response. “Actually, yes, Mr. Branxton. Specifically atmospheric thermodynamic. Stellar. Very good!” Although they would not be going into the nitty gritty of the topic and had been looking for a slightly more general answer.

SPOILER!!: ATMOSPHERE PEOPLE!

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone (Post 11633311)

There was singing.

Of course there was singing.

There was a popping too, which caused Grayson -- who was looking around the classroom -- to jump and turn his attention back to the front. JEEZ. If that sound didn't jolt people awake, he didn't know what would. Really. He was even sitting up a little straighter and his blue eyes were wide, thanks to it. Nope. No sleeping was going to happen here.

They were meant to get up and start jogging, too. WELL. Due to the cold weather, Grayson had been feeling quite lazy. Warm fires and hot chocolate sounded much better and exercising sounded like it required too much effort, given what the condition was like outside. Letting out a small groan, Grayson stood up and streeeeeeeetched. Stretch his arms and his legs and his whole body.

Andddddddd jogging. It was happening.

Did he think that the jogging part would be the hardest? Lol. LOOOOOL. What kind of hard question had Flamsteed just picked out from his brain? Boy was confused, and for good reason, too. He didn't know how they linked but he that didn't stop him from making a smart guess. Nuh uh. The hand went up in the air and he shouted, "IS IT SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ATMOSPHERE?"

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin (Post 11633327)

Huh...they were not doing balloon animals today. That was a little depressing. He shrugged it off and how the professor was singing to them? It sounded like 99 Red Balloons. He actually knew that song and smirked. But now onto the lesson. Wait...they were going jogging? Well it did seem quite cold in here. He got up and warmed his hands. He was rubbing them together. But as he went with his other classmates, he could barely hear the question. But as he shouted louder he could hear it.

He thought about it and said, "THE ATMOSPHERE!" That was the only thing he could think of! I think Grayson was thinking along on the same lines as him.

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Originally Posted by Grrr...Meow

Bay smiled when the balloon popped, he he he. ohhh they needed to be doing some running.. jumping up he followed everyone else in the room… doing laps.. and what he had to answer questions while he was running… talk about multitasking.. Almost out of breath he said "the atmosphere?" he really wished he could stop and take a drink right now.

panting and sweating he wondered when they were going to stop all the running.. because he was plenty warm now.

“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, WE’RE HALF WAY THEEEEEEEEEEERE!” he sang. Because they were sort of half way there. Well, more like one fifth of the way there, but anyway.

So yes, it did have something to do with the atmosphere, but only with a specific part of it. More on that later though.

SPOILER!!: STORM (NOT THE X-MEN) SORT OF ANSWERS!

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom (Post 11633315)

Caleb had to RUN now? Even though he wasn't looking forward to physical activity, Flamsteed had a good point - exercise made you WARMER. Plus if he got a workout, was he really supposed to be complaining?

He got up and started jogging, mulling over the answer to his question. What were those ingredients for? Hmmm...hmmm...

"Are those what make up storms?" he answered.

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 (Post 11633332)

There was not one time Adi was never amused in Professor Flamsteed's class. He doubted the man could make a poodle because if he could then he wouldn't be having trouble with the balloon, right?

Anyway...Jogging? Sure! At least Adi would be warm. He jumped up from his seat and eagerly took off. Warmth. He needed warmth. As he jogged, the boy pondered on the posed question. Hmm... "A hurricane, Professor.'' It was all he could think of. No, actually he he could think of more stuff but he just wanted to blurt out that answer. Heh.

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Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104 (Post 11633394)

...this was interesting. And PROMISING. Marigold eagerly got up and jogged. It was the promise of further warmth that made her actually run. As for the feeling of running in circles? Not so fun. She accidentally ran into the wall when she raised her hand to answer the question. "Storms?" was her guess. And her shoulder hurt from running into the wall.

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Originally Posted by Mordred (Post 11633460)

Ethan watched the professor sing, and wasn’t bothered by it at all. Free entertainment, you guys! The third year even had both of his hands in front and conducted for Airey. Such a good conductor he was. But then, class was starting! Ethan was more than glad to be up and moving because, horrible weather outside…and they were in a higher altitude and all that.

Anyway. Jogging.

Jog, jog, jog.

The Slytherin’s thoughts were at a loss because the other students started to throw answers from left to right. They sure are quick to answer, no? And such smarty pants! Ethan concentrated on his jogging and simply tied his classmates’ answer with Airey’s question. “STORM!” Because…snowstorm? This class should be somehow relevant to what’s going on outside? Uh-huh.

Jog, jog, jog.

Yes! YES! They were getting closer now! Although thus far Mr. Branxton had come the closest to the response he was looking for. “YES! And storms are a part oooooooooooooooof…” he called as he frolicked forward.

SPOILER!!: THE SILENT JOGGERS!

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Originally Posted by Shanners (Post 11633325)

Jogging? Heck no.

She was NOT jogging.

She would walk.

And so she did. She weaved between a couple of students to avoid being caught out not being at the same speed as the others and the look on her face said that she had no intention of matching them all. Stuff jogging where the sun didn't shine. And that was Hogwarts, by the way. It was cold. She wanted to be in her bed with extra blankets and not here looking at people jog in situations that they weren't in shorts for.

Shorts = legs = happy Elodie.

Jogging + cold + no SHORTS = not so happy Elodie.

And no. She had no answer. Not one. Weirdos.

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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin (Post 11633374)

Ian grinned as he enjoyed the professor's singing. It was rather an entertaining song. He was excited to see what was up with the class...that was until the professor popped the balloon. It startled him some and he almost dove for the floor. He'd heard the noises like that some on the boat with his dad and usually it meant one of the traps were loose and he was supposed to hit the ground, or deck in this matter.

The professor got up and greeted the class as a whole and then something rather unexpected. He told them to get up and run. Ian hadn't really expected a physical lesson and so was wearing his ankle high boots rather than his trainers. This should be interesting...he hoped he didn't get any blisters. Dress socks weren't exactly well suited to athletics. He began shuffling his feet in a semi-joggishness manner not really wanted to build up too much of a sweat. With his thick woolen sweater and robe on...he feared he would pass out. He'd see how long he could maintain this glacial pace.

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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin (Post 11633506)

Ian wasn't particularly enjoying this part of the lesson. He wasn't much for running normally. He liked to take things at a bit of a more leisurely pace. It didn't help that with his robe and woolen sweater things were starting to get a little too warm for his comfort. He looked at the professor, hoping the running part was going to be over soon. It didn't take much for Ian's breathing to become labored and ragged as he panted. I really am in poor physical condition Ian thought to himself in between thoughts of how much fun he was NOT having.

“Keep it up!” he called to everyone, but mostly to be encouragement for those who did not answer. Not everyone was gifted with the talent of multitasking. At least he wasn’t asking them to jog and chew gum at the same time, right? Heh.

He was actually starting to get a bit out of breath from all the talking, failing, and jogging. Not to mention the whole brief burst into song.

SPOILER!!: WEATHER PEOPLE!

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana (Post 11633307)

Ohh, so she was really going to get that poodle?! "Cool!" she said, as she watched the professor twist the balloon this way and that. She was really starting to anticipate what her new poodle would look like, when...

BAM!

Sophie jumped back and stared wide-eyed at the balloon mess. Glancing back up at the professor, she said, "I think the poodle died..." Surely he could tell that. He was wearing pieces of it, after all.

Anyway...

Apparently, they were meant to start jogging. Between this and the yoga they sometimes did in Defense class, they should be in shape now, despite the Quidditch lull. Sophie stood up but didn't start moving right away. She didn't want to be the first to try it. There was a question, though, so...

"WEATHER!" she shouted. Well, he had said to shout. Hopefully she was right and hadn't just yelled out the wrong answer...

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Originally Posted by littledhampir (Post 11633329)

First the balloons and now singing. Was this professor some kind of performer? That explanation made quite a lot of sense to Hayden, she thought it was a very logical assessment of all the facts and so she was sticking with it. In his spare time Professor Flamsteed traveled around and performed at different venues such as restaurants and children's birthday parties. He must.

What? Now jogging? She had not signed up for that. This was Astronomy not physical education. But Hayden was forced to get out of her chair and start jogging around the room. At least there were so many of them they basically covered the whole room around the outside, and no one could really tell who was the slowest. She jogged at a very slow pace. If the professor wanted her to jog, that was as good as he was going to get.

And now there was a question? Oh boy, what didn't she have to do? Hayden had to think about the answer while keeping herself from running into anything while she jogged. She thought she knew it so she said "Weather." But it wasn't very loud, and didn't sound extremely confident. Oh well, it sounded right. They were talking about weather, sort of, so it made sense. Right? Right. Now could they be done running, please?

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Originally Posted by Danielle_Daughn (Post 11633335)

Mackenzie was up, and jogging but also pulling her jacket and scarf tighter around her. SERIOUSLY AIREY THIS ISN'T COOL ITS COLD!!!! The Gryffindor mentally yelled at her favorite professor, as she continued to jog laps around the room. And what's with the physical education and thinking

Pressure, temperature, volume, and density... her brow furrowed as she thought, suddenly she came to a halt as she grinned "WEATHER!!!" and then realized if she didn't continue someone would run into her and she sprinted around the room a few times.

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Originally Posted by griffin (Post 11633336)

Professor Flamsteed was singing something about balloons. He did manage to say hello to Penelope, in between lines of the song. The balloon was really squeaky, so when the professor was twisting the balloon again, she covered her ears.

POP! Penelope covered her ears tighter and ducked under the desk as pieces of balloon fell on the professors head and on the floor around him. She would just stay here under the desk where she would be safe.

Oh, class was starting? Looking around to make sure that there were not any more balloons that might pop, Penelope uncovered her ears and crawled out from under the desk.

They were jogging laps around the room? Helping her mind think quicker and more efficiently sounded like a good reason to get up and jog. Flamsteed probably had some other astronomy activity related reason for everyone running laps around the room. She got up and started jogging around the room with everyone.

Pressure, temperature, volume, and density are the basic ingredients for what? "Weather!" Penelope shouted out her answer as loud as she could so the professor would be able to hear her. Were they going to get any questions that they actually needed to think about? That one seemed too easy.

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Originally Posted by Hey Ju (Post 11633352)

Agatha probably smiled a bit wider than planned as she waved at Simon and she told him she was very well, thank you. Airey's balloon popped before they could engage in a proper conversation, which made her turn her attention from her housemate to the teacher. He had some balloon bits on his head. Agatha stared. "Professor, there's something on your head." See, she called him 'professor'. She could do it.

She was expecting the lesson to start, but the man was telling them all to get up and jog. Well, Agatha was a very healthy lady, and she was totally up for that. Her uncle Orsy and ballet always made sure she was fit and she could jog for an entire day if she wanted. Mhm.

And she was off. Jogging around the room. She should have brought a hair bobble with her... she always forgot to bring them to classes and she had noticed they were needed in many lessons. The Slytherin hoped she would remember it the next time.

So her hair was waving behind her as she jogged. Faster than some kids, for that matter. She was totally fit, alright. But she didn't have a clue what professor Flamsteed was going on about when he mentioned all that crazy stuff. And her classmates started to yell answers. Most people were saying weather, so that was probably right. "WEATHER."

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 (Post 11633355)

The Professor wanted them to jog? Jasmine supposed that jogging was one way to get warm. Normally she would have been all in, but right now not so much. Dragging herself up from her chair, Jasmine started to slowly run around the classroom. Maybe some endorphins would help her?

Then Professor Flamsteed asked a question. Jasmine knew that the answer was weather, but it had already been said several times. She knew that she should just stay quiet, but she didn't. At the risk of being super redundant, Jasmine said, "Weather". .........And still jogging........

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Originally Posted by Emms (Post 11633364)

So he was sitting around with the other students when all of a sudden a large noise came from over near where Professor Airey was. He squinted his eyes and scrunched his nose at the sound of the balloon bursting. Thank Merlin that the balloon was gone. Now he didn't have to get so worried. Well at least the balloon hadn't flown at his face. Phew. A little bit of tension left from his shoulders.

Oh good idea. They would keep moving so that they would all stay warm and not freeze their butts off. Simon got to his feet rather energetically. Then Airey joined them and led them on the jog. He asked them to think about what pressure, temperature, volume, and density. He blinked his blue eyes a couple of times and then began to raise his hand. Wait. They could just shout it out. "Weather!" he cried, beaming. Oh yes, he knew that answer and felt very proud because of it.

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Originally Posted by Squishy (Post 11633368)

Why was he laughing? O_O

Had she told a joke without realizing it? Shaking her head in amusement, Lux was glad that he at least was doing well even if he was as odd as ever. But hey, that was part of what made him her favourite Professor. Never change, Airey.

On and on the squeaking went until he decided to break into a loud song to drown it out. What a considerate man! AND the song was about RED balloons, which worked because he was playing with a RED balloon! Awesome! Grooving along in her seat, she pouted when there was a loud POPing sound and then a shower of red rubber. Shame, that was.

Fortunately she remembered everything that they had learned in the last lesson, so Lux eagerly got to her feet. Exercising was always a good thing, and jogging seemed like an excellent way to warm them all up when it was so cold inside. Making her way around the classroom, she thought of the question that he had asked. Like almost everyone else, she called out, "WEATHER!" Maybe it wasn't creative, but she couldn't think of anything else that it could be.

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Originally Posted by Harry174 (Post 11633426)

Angel smiled as she listened to what the Professor was saying, this was going to be awesome, though well maybe not because she was going to get all sweaty and ewwwwwwwwwwwwwy like and Angel had only just done her hair.

Angel stood up and started to jog around the classroom with the Professor, she wondered if the Professor was training for a marathon or something because if he was then she would totally support him and might actually join in with him as long as it was worth it.

"Weather?" Angel wasn't sure why she shouted that out but she had a feeling that was the answer she wanted to give, so whilst she was still jogging as she was saying the answer.

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Originally Posted by LilFox06 (Post 11633674)

Okay. They were jogging. Couldn't they just light a fire instead...?

But Mitchell did get up and join them. ~~Mostly because Marigold got up.~~ And quickly joined Goldilocks after she ran into the wall. He gave a 'Are you alright?' look while saying "Weather." Which sort of made weather seem like a question.

DING DING DING! WE HAVE THE WINNERS!

Although all the answers were stellar in their own way. Save for the ones about flatulence. That was just plain wrong.

"Weather! YES! That was the answer I was looking for!" he exclaimed as he leaped a few times to show his excitement. "When you combine all of these ingredients in the Earth's thermosphere you get the weather. Now, we think of temperature as how warm or cold something is. But the reality is that temperature is caused by molecules zooming around. The faster they zoom, the warmer it gets, just like how you are all zooming around and getting warmer." See? Method to his madness. And he wasn't done just yet. "Now, Miss McAlistor demonstrated something just a few moments ago when she gave the wall a whack with her hand." Very good, by the way. She was clearly on the same page with him in terms of demonstrations. "These molecules in the Earth's atmosphere are constantly bouncing each other and everything else around them - your arm, the ground, a tree....just for some examples - and they exert a force on those surfaces. The force exerted by these air molecules bouncing off things is called air pressure. Now, I want you all to try this out by GENTLY bumping into one another. BE THE MOLECULE! THINK LIKE A MOLECULE! We already know that as air molecules move faster that the temperature rises, but what happens to air pressure when the temperature goes up?"

How did it feeeeeeel when someone bumped into them? Hmmmmmm?

OOC: please do not have your character cause any serious injury while they are bumping into others :3

This lesson will continue approximately 12 hours from the time of this post ^_^

ohhhh WEEEEEEEE he got to slow down now and start to bump into people, this was a lot better then just straight up running.. slowing down he gently bumped into some students that were around him saying quietly "Sorry"…."Sorry" and he made sure that he didn't hit these people too hard. didn't want to make any enemies.

Text Cut: Airey 1

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11633303)

SQUEEEEEEEEEEAKY SQUEAK!

Airey continued to twist the balloon in various ways, only slightly making progress with his creation before it came undone and he was back to square one with a long red balloon showing some signs of wear. Alas.

“Good day, Mr. Barrington,” he saluted the prefect, glancing down at his balloon with a boyish grin. “Hardly. Afraid I do not have the hands for this sort of thing. Certainly not enough to make a living off of.” Knitting though, that he was much better at. Almost done with his Next Generation crew, actually.

Were they aware that their names rhymed? Mr. Barrington and Miss Carrington? Were they also aware that when they entered the room one after the other like they had just done that it flipped his switch and made him laugh - seemingly for no reason?

Chuckling at a joke that only he knew the punchline to, he beamed at the Hufflepuff. “Good day to you, Miss Carrington.” HEHEHEHEHEEHEHEHE. “Doing alright, despite the cold.” He hadn’t fallen victim to illness yet, so that was something.

He could tell something was….disturbing Miss Guidry, and while the astronomer really did want to express his concern and see what was troubling her...he had also learned his lesson about asking students about their privates lives. In fact, he was now positive that thanks to the conversation he had had with one Michael Toussaint he would never again ask a student what was troubling them. Maybe he would just pass this of to LeoBALD.

“Hello, Miss Guidry,” he smiled at her gently.

“Well, you wouldn’t know I was, because I am not,” he winked in reply. Truth. Couldn’t know something if it wasn’t true to begin with.

“Afternoon, Miss Jones. If you look at your desk, you will see that you have your own bag of them,” he explained. “I would prefer you not open them up just yet, however.”

“Afternoon to you as well, Mr. Tempus,” he waved to the Hufflepuff. Was it just him, or had he not seen the boy pogo-ing around as much this term? Had that phase of adolescence already passed for the young man but not for himself? Or perhaps it was just the cold keeping such actions withheld. “I’m either making a dog…..or a turtle…”

“Miss Hapgood,” he replied, eyebrow raised and amused smirk tugging at his lips.

“Hello, Mr. Rehman. I suppose fun would be a word used to describe this.”

Although he was leaning more towards frustration.

“Afternoon, Miss Duchannes. A….rabbit...definitely a rabbit.”

Lies.

“Not exactly, Mr. Lecium,” he smirked at the Hufflepuff. They would be using balloons, however. Certainly weren’t just there for show or as a distraction. Even if the balloon in his hand was serving as an excellent distraction right now.

SQUEEEEAKY SQUEAK SQUEEEEEAKY!

Ah, there she was. The Peregrine Falcon of Ravenclaw when it came to Gobstones. Fast, accurate, fierce, still competition. And no, the astronomer had not suddenly taken an interest in creatures and knew those birds of prey because of said interest. The reference had come up in his research when talking about the speed of light compared to the speed of living creatures.

ANYWAY.

“Good to see you, Miss Brown,” he waved at the Ravenclaw as she took her seat.

He probably should stop playing with his balloon, yeah? Seemed to be giving students false hope about what would be covered this lesson. Oops.

“Not today, Mr. Kim.”

“Hello, Miss McAlistor,” he greeted the fourth year is a loud voice, attempting to drown out the loud squeaking that was coming from his balloon.

So much for putting it down.

“Good day, Mr. Adair. A dragon. Definitely a dragon.”

More lies.

“Great to see you again, Mr. Simon,” he smirked at the Gryffindor. Poor kid had been on the wrong sort of receiving end of his last balloon animal attempt. Never fear, today the balloon was already blown up and tied off, so it wasn’t going to go shooting anywhere. Hopefully.

“A giraffe… I believe.”

“Afternoon, Miss Cambridge. No no, I think I’ve got a handle on it alright.” Sort of. He was getting this close to saying he had made a balloon snake. Still counted as a balloon animal.

“Good day, Mr. Whitlock” he nodded towards the Slytherin.

He offered a small inclination of the head towards the young Hufflepuff as she scampered in and took a seat. Clearly she was too engrossed and excited by the balloons to think of anything else.

“Hello, Miss Evans. No thank you. I can, er, handle this.” Snake. Yep. Red balloon snake.

“Good to see you, Mr. Bay,” he grinned at the Gryffindor.

Airey’s gaze shifted from the balloon, to the seventh year, and then to the door leading into the classroom and beyond where the lint roller sat on the small table just out of view. He was then briefly overcome by the solemn realization that it was once again drawing closer to the end of term which meant more goodbyes. Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Branxton.

“I believe I will,” he chuckled. He was also reminded of something else. A pleasant something. “I am wondering, Mr. Branxton, if you may have some time tomorrow to come see me? I have something I wish to discuss with you.”

Peripheral vision. Airey Flamsteed had it. So he caught the young man’s movements, but that was it. Seemed the boy was in a hurry to sit down, so the astronomer would continue to be in a hurry making absolutely nothing impressive with his balloon.

Small head nod towards Mr. Newell as he took his seat. Hello, Mr. Newell.

“Afternoon, Miss Wistera. Don’t have globophobia, do you?” he asked after noticing the way she was scrutinizing the bag of balloons on her desk.

“Good day, Miss Wayne,” he greeted the Slytherin, noticing the rosy color of her cheeks but obviously assuming it had to do with the manner of which she had run to the classroom. Excellent way to keep warm, you know? Running.

HEH.

Wowzers. That was...a lot of clothing. Wowzers.

“Good day, Miss Channing-Sands,” he greeted, squinting a bit to make sure that really was the Slytherin under all those layers.

“Hello, Mr. Mordaunt.” Smile, salute, nod of the head.

“Terribly sorry, Mr. Hazelwood. Is the sound too much?” he asked as he wiggled the deformed balloon in the air. It had a twist in it now that was actually staying, so there was SOME progress. “Easily fixed. Not to worry.”

But of course, instead of doing the logical thing and casting a charm on the balloon to mute the sound, the astronomer straighten up and began belting out a song. Selected purely because of the literal red balloons mentioned in the song and for no other reason.

“You and I in a little toy shop...buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got...set them free at the break of dawn...'til one by one, they were gone…”

See? Couldn’t hear the squeaking noise now! PROBLEM SOLVED!

“...back at base, bugs in the software...flash the message,...hello Miss Wright! … "Something's out there"...floating in the summer sky…”

“99 red balloons go byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.”

He had entered his air guitar solo when Mr. Mordaunt greeted him and, seeing as he was a little too busy getting wrapped up in the music playing in his mind, he simply grinned and headbanged his greeting to the Slytherin. HELLO! Mr. Mordaunt!

...99 red balloons floating in the summer sky…

Since he had stopped with the balloon folding for now, he also ceased his lively rendition of the muggle classic. Although he was still humming it rather loudly. “Hello, Miss Konstantinova.”

See? He could say her name properly. Kudo points to him. Or should he say...snaps to him.

Cue some serious internal grumbling.

Ah, the tenacious Miss Valentine. “Good day, Miss Valentine. Been a pleasure watching you play gobstones this term,” he grinned. She had, of course, heard him cheering from the viewing area, yes?

Airey scratched the side of his head and chuckled at the Gryffindor. “Stellar to hear that,” he mused.

“Good to see you, Miss Campbell,” he waved to the third year.

“Hello hello, Miss Bayless,” he greeted, humming said greeting in tune with the song still playing in his head.

And he heard that, but seeing as he hadn’t actually said or written anywhere that they should not open their bag of balloons he really couldn’t say anything. Well, he COULD actually.

“Not yet, Miss Bayless,” he smirked while shaking his head.

And really, the flatulent noises were reserved for Ravenclaws. At least as far as his lessons had been concerned. Then again...they had been REAL flatulents the last time.

“Good day, Miss Cooper,” he grinned towards the first year. Raised eyebrows? Should he continue singing? Pfft. What a silly question. Of course he should.

“Opens up one eager eye...focusing it on the sky.”

“Afternoon, Miss Somerlad,” he beamed at the Head Girl while doing a little bit of a shuffle to the right with his feet.

“As 99 red balloons go byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy”

Short pause.

“Oh, good day Mr. Tinker,” he greeted, waving his balloon in the boy’s direction.

Wiggle wiggle shuffle shuffle AIR GUITAR wiggle wiggle.

Ah yes, he was feeling so much warmer now. Really, everyone should just get up and dance.

“Hello, Miss Rawthorne,” he greeted the Hufflepuff as he shuffled on by.

Returning to his twisting and folding of the balloon in his hand, the astronomer ceased his singing for the time being and checked his sundial watch. Soon, ought to get things started here soon.

But first...he was going to flash Mr. Toussaint a big ol’ grin.

“A poodle?” he repeated, glancing down at the balloon in his hand. “Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.” He began twisting the balloon again and again and then…

*POP*

The red balloon was now in a few pieces on the floor and on top of the professor's head.

Well, if there was a sign that he should just get the lesson started then this was certainly one.

"Ahem, well, terribly sorry about that," he apologized to the class with a boyish grin while the tops of his ears turned a a slight shade of red. "Ahem, well then. Let's get things started. If you could all please leave your balloons for right now in the bag. We will be using them a little later."

Returning to the center of the room, Airey stood in front of his desk and banished the balloon remains with his wand - save for the bit that he was wearing like a hat because he did not know it was there.

"We will be building off what we have been discussing all term, about how the Earth's tilt and orbit around the sun causes the seasons," he continued, still wiggling around just a bit as the music kept playing in his head. "Obviously...it is more than a bit chilly outside and not much better in here, so I want everyone to stand up and get moving. Will not only help you keep warm but also get that blood pumping and help those minds think quicker and more efficiently." Or something like that. He really had an ulterior motive as to why he wanted them up and running around. "So everyone UP UP UUUUUUUP out of your seats and jog laps around the classroom with me."

Because he wasn't going to be like that stereotypical image of a muggle physical education instructor and just stand there watching.

He waited a moment for everyone to get up off their bums before joining them in a brisk jog.

"Now! While you are jogging, I want you all to think about on something as you are jogging. If you think you know the answer just go ahead and shout it out. Pressure, temperature, volume, and density are the basic ingredients for what?"

OOC: class has officially started! Please do not post your character arriving to the lesson unless you are willing to accept whatever IC consequences Professor Flamsteed find appropriate ^_^

Remember that the Astronomy classroom is circular, so your characters will be jogging around in a big ol' circle right now :3 you may continue to RP the jogging around the classroom if you wish, but please keep chit chatter to a minimum.

Also, I apologize for the delay in getting things officially started. Wold Cup happened.

Class will resume in approximately 24 hours from this post.

He didn't notice her face, thank Merlin. Sitting down she pressed her cheek against the desk and switched to the other cheek moments later. It helped...? Maybe. Her face didn't feel as warm anymore. She was up at the loud POP. Ugh. That is WHY she didn't like balloons. They did that awful sound. Despite herself, though, Beverly was amused at Professor Airey.

They were getting up and moving? Beverly was okay with that, yes. The lack of moving about the grounds and stuck inside all day left the Slytherin building up with energy and that got her antsy. Without as much of a second thought, she stood up and fell into the mass of jogging students and an Airey.

Pressure, temperature, volume and density. Beverly shouted the first thing that came to mind. "GASES."

No one laugh.

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Airey varied his pace a bit as he took off jogging around the classroom and even turned about so he was jogging backwards to look at the pack of students following behind him. Oh yes, he was going to stay in front of the class even during their jogging. He was the professor after all, and contrary to what appearances may imply, rather fit.

Clearing the occasional obstacle with his wand as he lead the way, he turned back around after giving students a few moments of thinking time and was greeted by a chorus of answers. STELLAR! Although it may be a bit difficult to differentiate between them all.

He hadn’t entirely thought this through. Oops.

“Certainly is!”

And that was all he had.

Well, technically speaking, the Hufflepuff wasn’t wrong...but in the context of the term he wasn’t correct. The astronomer simply shook his head in response since someone else was shouting out an answer at approximately the same time.

“Yes! We will be using balloons today! A little more patience!” he shouted for clarification. That had been what she had meant by balloons, right?

SPOILER!!: the FART answer and the misinterpretated FART answer :3

He couldn’t tell who had shouted out the answers involving bodily functions - probably a pair of first years who were vertically challenged and therefore he couldn’t see them - but he wasn’t amused.

“I am not amused!” he called out to the general crowd. “We will not be discussing flatulences today or any day.”

“Yes and no, Miss Evans!” he replied, having spotting the Ravenclaw as she answered. “We need to be careful with terminology. Climate refers to the weather of a place averaged over a period of time, usually around 30 years, and something a bit too long term than what we are discussing today.”

He couldn’t entire see who had shouted out this answer as several entered his ears at the same time, but he did like it. So he raised both of his arms high into the air and gave two very enthusiastic thumbs up.

Someone had cauldron cakes? That was really all he could hear over the chorus of responses. “NO FOOD IN THE ASTRONOMY TOWER!”

Well, yes, obviously. Everything had to do with something. So not exactly an incorrect answer, although it was a rather obvious and vague one. Still, brief and flaily thumbs up to whoever that response had been.

“IF ONLY THE WEATHER CONDITIONS WOULD ALL FOR IT!”

Because what better way to study the atmosphere than to go up into it?

“Will certainly keep that in mind for the future!”

Oooooooh! There was a stellar term being thrown about! “There is some correlation, yes!” Although not the answer that he was looking for.

Mr. Hirase? Airey couldn’t tell who had shouted this answer, but he was brought back to the conversation in his office about Spock and how the Gryffindor had misheard the name of the Vulcan’s home planet.

So instead of answering, he lifted up his one hand and did the Vulcan salute as he continued to lead the group around the classroom at a brisk jog.

A very awe inspiring response from Miss Cambridge. Shaking his head in mild amusement, he gave the prefect a slightly unamused look before nearly tripping over his own feet as he sped forward.

Picking up his pace a bit more, his already eager smile widened a bit further with Mr. Branxton’s response. “Actually, yes, Mr. Branxton. Specifically atmospheric thermodynamic. Stellar. Very good!” Although they would not be going into the nitty gritty of the topic and had been looking for a slightly more general answer.

SPOILER!!: ATMOSPHERE PEOPLE!

SPOILER!!: STORM (NOT THE X-MEN) SORT OF ANSWERS!

SPOILER!!: THE SILENT JOGGERS!

SPOILER!!: WEATHER PEOPLE!

OOC: please do not have your character cause any serious injury while they are bumping into others :3

This lesson will continue approximately 12 hours from the time of this post ^_^

Bump into people. Are you serious, Airey? Beverly didn't like people touching her ~~except for Jeremiah because, DUH, Boyfriend hugs were nice~~. She shot scowls to the people around her.

House points. Think house points, Wayne.

Erasing the scowl from her face, but still looking a bit grumpy, Beverly bumped against someone. Gently as Professor Airey said. Then another person and another and another. It was annoying when someone bumped into her, but it was sort of fun when SHE bumped into someone.

Bump, bump, bump.

Jogging...jogging...jogging.

They were jogging to keep warm in the cold astronomy classroom while the lesson was proceeding. Benny himself was just trying to keep himself moving while listening to both Professor Flamsteed and his fellow students who were discussing what everything was apart of. Finally the answer was given and somehow it made sense. Weather fit the mood, what with all the freezing cold temperatures and blizzard conditions that were happening right around them.

The third year wasn't much into crashing into anyone, but he did consider the question given. "Does the air pressure get thicker....or...or..." What was the word? Benny tried to what what he was getting at with his response, the boy finally guessing. "...denser?"

All of this jogging was making Jasmine warmer so if that was the Professor's objective, objective achieved. Of course there was a method to his madness.....a lesson. Now he wanted everyone to bump into each other. Reluctantly, Jasmine complied by gently bumping the nearest student. BUMP

There was also a question to be answered. We're they supposed to raise their hands while running or just continue to shout out their responses? Sort of raising her hand, Jasmine said, "I think that the air pressure increases as the temperature rises". Looking around for another student to bump, Jasmine continued jogging.

Ooph. Simon was getting quite warm from doing all of this physical exercise. His cheeks were becoming more red by the second. He focused on his breathing and then listened to Airey explain what they were going to be doing. Could they slow down soon? He was running out of breath.

THINK like a molecule?

Simon blinked. How? How did one do such a thing? What did molecules think of? He didn't know. Did they think of what precise velocities that they were going to generate to fling themselves at a neighbouring molecule. Oh boy, if only they knew. The boy was pretty sure, however, that molecules didn't have their own thoughts though he'd play along with the notion because it was a rather cool concept.

So they had to very gently collide into someone? Simon smirked. That sounded sort of fun to the Slytherin. Someone bumped into him. Or had he bumped into them? Simon didn't know. "Uhh.. sorry," he said as he gently was pushed or bumped into another person. He was quickly losing his personal space with all these collisions happening. Grin and bear it. Grin and bear it, Simon. You'll survive, he told himself as he began to feel like one of those pin ball machines that one would find in old muggle arcades. "Doesn't air pressure increase?"

Hehe *bumps into Bay*

Whooop, she and the other people who said weather got it right. Go them!

This was so much fun, and Lux could understand why Professor Flamsteed had them running. Not only was it to warm up, but it was to make a demonstration. This was another reason why he was her favourite Professor. She was a molecule moving around, and she needed to bump into other molecules.

Oooh, there was one! Bay.

BUMP. "Haaaai there." Hehe. This was so much fun. Who could she hit next?

Grayson had half a mind to continue the song. Half a mind, mind you. But no. No singing was coming from the fourth year today.

Okay. If they were going to talk about the weather, was there going to be a lightbulb moment where they figured out WHY it was snowing so much? Were the molecules around the place just being freaking lazy and not bumping into each other as much as they should? Because that was not acceptable. His mum usually told him off for being lazy and someone needed to tell the molecules that too, mkay?

But the idea of bumping into someone on purpose? Yes.

Yes.

FREAKING YES.

First, he was going to try and answer that question about air pressure. "Air pressure goes up too, I think" he said, his hand in the air, "If the molecules move around faster and bump into each other and regular things more, the pressure's bound to go up." Logic.

Now it was the fun part. Grayson was a bull and he was going to CHARGE -- gently or whatever -- towards the person directly in front of him. Chaaaaaarge..........

......... slow motion charging........

............. and BUMP! Gently.

Yo.

Runrunrunrunrun.

While doing absolutely nothing to quell his high levels of energy, this moving about was certainly helping to warm up Tobias Tempus. In fact, he was already pretty sweaty, and he reached up a hand to push his hair off of his sweaty brow as he jogged. Next time he would not wear all these layers. Okay.

And now they were... PLAYING BUMPER CARS? Or, well... actually they were playing Molecules, but it was an awful lot like that old playground game of bumper cars. Without hesitation, Toby crossed his arms over his chest, like in the old game, and went on moving about. He was careful to try and slow down because he didn't want to HURT anybody, but other than that Toby was totally engrossed. As for the question, the Hufflepuff tried his darnedest to give his input. What happens to air pressure when temperature goes up?

"Up. Things move and bounce and go faster and heat up more." As he spoke his words came out quickly and excitably, further illustrating his point. "The faster they move the more they bounce. More force from bouncing. Higher pressure."

Something like that. Whatever, Toby was busy literally bouncing off the walls.

Lex caught the look the Professor had given for her response and gave a wide grin in response. He may have been trying to look unamused but it didn't prevent Lex from feeling accomplished in her response, if only for his reaction. How many other people got that look huh? She thought as much. 'Sides, if he really minded she'd know and considering he didn't she could keep jogging around the room while they talked about weather and molecules.

Fancy stuff--

Hang on. They were going to be bumping into each other now? Like on purpose? This sounded a lot like that road rage stuff Jun had told her about only less violent on account of the Professor saying they had to do it gently--Ooph! Lex whipped around, trying in vain to see who might have bumped into her but ended up being bumped into by yet another person.

And what was all this talk about air pressure increasing? She could hardly concentrate between bumps and trying to keep her balance as she jogged. Interesting way to point a picture if she did say so herself.

Think like a molecule? Do molecules think? O_O Adi didn't know about that. It was time to bump someone. He leaned towards the person directly ahead of him and...Bump! Gently, of course. Hehe. That was fun. Let's do that again!

"I think it's like Jasmine says, Professor. The air pressure rises.'' truth be told, Adi didn't really have much of an idea about air pressure and stuff. He just liked the sound of his Ravenclaw friend's answer.

Run run run run run run run

Alright so they were still running the track and his answer was close enough. He was satisfied! He got it semi correct. Alright so now they had to be like molecules? So they had to bump into each other? This may end badly for some people. Kace would keep some control. He saw Bay and Lux and smirked. He bumped into them and said, "Sorry you two love birds.." he winked at them. He said it jokingly of course. Then he saw Grayson and bumped into him lightly. He was having TOO much fun with this. He was looking for Emmy but could not find her anywhere. Maybe she didn't catch up yet?

Then he heard the professor's question. He raised his hand and said, "I think the air pressure increases as the temperature goes up." Because then why did they have humidity when they couldn't even breathe too well?

Well there it was. It was certainly stellar. Though the real answer was not really stellar. Though certain types of weather were amazing and disastrous. Then he got into his teaching mood and went on a long talk about weather and atmosphere stuff. Interesting if Nigel cared enough about it.

Now what was this about bumping/hitting into other people. Because there is no gently hitting into someone. It is either they hit the ground and you laugh. Or you are seriously weak and should work out. Plus there is no controlling air. Air was free spirited. So there.

Bump..Hard!

Bumping gently is for wussies.

Wait, they had to bump into other people? Wasn't that dangerous? Well if someone did get hurt it would be Flamsteed's fault because he was the one telling them they were supposed to run into others. Well alright then. Hayden gently bumped her shoulder against the person nearest her. She had no idea who it was. Were they supposed to keep bumping? Hayden moved to her left and sped up just a little so she could bump into someone else, and then fell back again. Oh hi Lex.

Hayden honestly had no idea what the answer to the question was. But how could Flamsteed even tell who was answering anyway? They were all just in a big clump. Even if he could see her she still would not have answered because she didn't know the answer, though it seemed everyone else thought they knew. Air pressure increased as temperature did, apparently.

They were ZOOMING around and getting warmer? Well, the getting warmer bit was true, Leah was quite warm from all this jogging, but she certainly was not zooming around like wheeeeeeeeee. She did not like jogging/running in front of people because it totally messed up her hair. The Hufflepuff slowed down slightly, pretending to pay attention to what Professor Flamsteed was saying.

Did molecules even think? This was the first question that came up to the second year's mind as she gently bumped into people around her, not bothering to apologize because hey, she was asked to do this. Leah now focused on how it felt. She was bouncing away from bigger and older students because she was small, but about the air pressure..

Leah was bouncing against people faster now, because she was kind of moving faster as she bumped into other students and the wall. She tried to raise her hand and speak among this confusion. "Air pressure increases!" the girl half-yelled, continuing to bump.

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THUMBS UP. WOOP.

Of course the answer was weather. Everyone knew that, deep down. Zooming around and getting warmer they were indeed, and Sophie was glad she hadn't thought to dress in as many layers as some of the other students. But then they had to BUMP INTO PEOPLE and suddenly people were knocking into each other all over - had Nigel missed the specification of gently? - and Soph avoided the violent ones.

But she did target people she liked.

Jogging along cheerfully, Soph caaasually bumped into Kace, then Leah who was also nearby, then fell back to continue jogging next to Tobes, who got multiple bumps because he was all over the place and he was cute. His answer was good, too, and she gave a big nod of approval in the direction of Flamsteed. YEP. SHE AGREED WITH THAT.

Be the molecule? Think like a molecule?

.... Weird. So weird. As if the first lesson wasn't strange enough. Didn't Hogwarts Professors ever do anything normal? Is this like a wizard thing... Or?

Either way, Zander did not feel like bumping. He'd end up with purple bruises everywhere! THWACK Ouch!! Zander winced as someone nearby bumped into him. Ugh. If you can't beat them, join em? The Gryffindor let out a small sigh and reluctantly began running and bumping too. It actually wasn't all that bad. Except for the fact that they had to answer all these questions while doing it. Was this some kind of midevil torture practice or something? Because there was no way Zander could answer that question. It was hard. And he was bumping!!

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As Penelope had suspected, there was an activity related reason for running around the room.

They were going to be molecules. Penelope wouldn't be suprised if the activity involved temperature changes in the room as the students moved around. She gently bumped a few people near her, then more people as she jogged a bit faster. The excitement of running around and being a molecule made Penelope feel warmer, and jog faster. No, it was not just the warmth from the jogging. As she jogged faster, she felt warmer. Not hot, but a tingly kind of warm. Was it just her, or was it like this in the room around her? Sometimes Penelope's emotions were reflected in the weather or temperature around her. She wasn't sure if the temperature changes were just around her, where no one could notice, or if it was on a slightly larger scale. As far as she could tell, it was just her affected by temperature and weather changes, but with bumping into other people, she might find out if they could feel anything.

"When the temperature goes up, the molecules move faster and bounce more. Because the molecules are moving faster and bouncing more, they exert a greater force on the molecules and surfaces that they bounce off, therefore the pressure is higher. As the temperature increases, the air pressure increases!" Penelope shouted, hoping that the professor could hear her.

Angel was enjoying herself until the Professor said that they had to bump into each other, that was just wrong, seriously she didn't want to get hurt by any seventh years around, but at the minute she wanted to have some fun, so she decided that she would join and she started bumping into people lightly whilst jogging around.

"Professor the molecules move faster when the temperature goes up." Angel shouted out the answer as she thought about it. "Basically when the temperature goes up the molecules move around faster and bump into each other more frequently." Angel wanted to continue on about the weather and things how they got involved but she decided against it because she didn't want to get into trouble.

Sophie was still moving around throughout the class, grinning as if she had the most mischievous thought ever running through her mind. Really, she was just amused at how they were being allowed to just run into each other in class. It was sort of...fun. Fun, because it was way better than sitting and taking notes or listening to a lecture.

Sophie bumped into a few people but listened to the professor as she did so. Hmm...what happened to air pressure as the temperature goes up? Sophie began to think of something like...well, a balloon. "Well, wouldn't it be like that balloon that went KABOOM at the beginning of class?" she asked. Were they supposed to raise their hand while playing human bumper cars? "The more air you put into it while trying to expand it, the more pressure you gave it. Finally, it went KABOOM."

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"Weather! YES! That was the answer I was looking for!" he exclaimed as he leaped a few times to show his excitement. "When you combine all of these ingredients in the Earth's thermosphere you get the weather. Now, we think of temperature as how warm or cold something is. But the reality is that temperature is caused by molecules zooming around. The faster they zoom, the warmer it gets, just like how you are all zooming around and getting warmer." See? Method to his madness. And he wasn't done just yet. "Now, Miss McAlistor demonstrated something just a few moments ago when she gave the wall a whack with her hand." Very good, by the way. She was clearly on the same page with him in terms of demonstrations. "These molecules in the Earth's atmosphere are constantly bouncing each other and everything else around them - your arm, the ground, a tree....just for some examples - and they exert a force on those surfaces. The force exerted by these air molecules bouncing off things is called air pressure. Now, I want you all to try this out by GENTLY bumping into one another. BE THE MOLECULE! THINK LIKE A MOLECULE! We already know that as air molecules move faster that the temperature rises, but what happens to air pressure when the temperature goes up?"

How did it feeeeeeel when someone bumped into them? Hmmmmmm?

Y'know she knew it was weather that's why she didn't speak. Mhhm. That and she was a bit busy deciding her route in which she jogged without bumping into anyone. Were they supposed to? Either way she tried not to bump into anyone because in her mind she imagined that if she collided with someone then someone behind her would collide, too and it would be chaos! She liked that way. Although she did lightly bump into others but now she controlled her pace and was able to meander around.

So yeah, they were talking weather.

And apparently they were to try bumping into each other. For academic reasons no doubt. Cassia dialed down her carefulness as she jogged allowing her body to indeed bump into others, she however kept being careful because falling off the tower seemed like a possibility.

Searching for the professor, Cassia slowed down considering the question. OH, there he was! "Pressure and temperature are directly proportional to each other, so if one increases so does the other." Back to jogging.

"KABOOM!" Yep, that's his answer right there. Ethan kept on jogging and concentrated more on moving and gently bumping into other molecules. Oh hey, hi Cassia! Bump. Oh hey, hi fellow Slytherin! Bump. Ethan moved and did exactly what Airey wanted them to do. Breaking his jogging pattern, he moved to bump that tiny Ravenclaw, then bumped into Zander. Hi Zander!

And...where is Simon? Grayson? Cutty? He needs to bump his bros too you know. Oh hey look, a wall! BUMP.