The inevitable had finally come to pass. With that last gulp, Alexa was through with her hot chocolate and her insides were getting cold from the sudden heat withdrawal. This needed fixing, it did, but it'd take her getting another cup of the stuff. Lex spun her head in a few directions, trying to find a reasonably close house elf but her attention was drawn back to the Professor at the sound of her name. A cat? No, just an Astronomer, though she'd hardly be saying that so she sat a bit straighter in her seat as if to show the woman now had her undivided attention.

If you asked her there were enough responses to allow for her silence and she thought it could have gone unquestioned, but it seemed the Professor had a question for her specifically. "I have Professor." Three words. Now way could one get in trouble for those.

At that she turned, realizing her opportunity for a fresh cup was within reach. "I'll have one." She informed the elf before snatching one from the serving tray. There, the world was in perfect order once more and her sipping motion could continu--

EHHHHH???

Sweet Merlin someone tell her the woman did NOT just say they'd be baking. This WAS Muggle Studies all over again except with no Lottie to do the work for her. Yeah...no, she didn't know how to make those things. This wouldn't end well.

Caleb had NO idea how they could possibly make fortune cookies real. He really didn't care, to be honest. Tea leaf readings were one thing, but pieces of paper in cookies - nah, he didn't put any stock in it.

But COULD they be accurate?

He raised his hand. "Maybe if you enchanted parchment to react to the DNA of the person? So it could tell a bit about you and make it more...personalized?" he suggested. It sounded far fetched, but crazier things had happened in the wizarding world...

Kace heard the house elf Pip was it? Yup it was him and he wanted more hot chocolate. He was out and wanted a fresh glass. He raised his hand and said to the little guy, "Hey I want some please?" he asked politely. Then he heard the professor laugh at his response. He was glad he made her day. It is what he aims to do. Then he paid attention to her lecture and made a couple notes.

But now he had a theory for the muggle and wizarding world. "Professor I think in the muggle world for fortune cookies, they might have a random generator and just put random fortunes in the cookies. But in the wizarding worldl like Simon said, I think there is a charm used." He was gonna stick with his fellow friends theory. It seemed logical to him.

Merlin. POOP the fortune out?! Someone please take this girl away.

... Dear Merlin....

But ooh hot chocolate? Zander watched as the hiccuping elf made his way around the room. As the elf came around his table the Gryffindor waved his hand at him. "I'd like another please!" Poor house elves doing so much work. And the other one was just cleaning up in the middle of the room. The third year sent a smile towards him because wow, they were pretty hard workers, those elves.

Spot on! His answer was spot on!

A moment to be proud of himself? YES PLEASE.

The moment was short-lived when he heard the sound of the house elf's question. More hot chocolate? "Yeah, some for me too," Pause. "Please?" Because he had manners somewhere deep deep down inside him and he was told that if you needed something from someone, manners worked well. And charm. Two very important things.

What Grayson was taking from this discussion was that fortune cookies weren't that accurate. They didn't read your birth chart or Astrology sign or whatever so they knew absolutely zilch about you. And fate? That was still a bit wholly, wasn't it? Fate. He didn't care much for it, or knew too much about it, sooooo the fifteen year old shrugged it off.

As for the question, he was going to go with what Simon had said because it was SMART. "I agree with what Simon said. A spell would be dead useful for something like this. It'd be individual to you, yeah? Maybe THAT's why you have to take a bite of the fortune cookie first." Or touch the piece of paper inside and then wait a couple of seconds for your fortune to generate?

Whatever. He agreed.

So the professor was seriously going to toss the cookie?! AWESOME! At least it'd be Cutty cleaning the crystal balls. Sophie just got to sit back and enjoy all the fun and pay nothing for it. Thanks, Cutty! Sophie laughed a little as the cookie was caught and Zahra wished Cutty well in cleaning the crystal balls. Heh. Well, now. There was a little extra fun thrown into class.

Now class was getting serious again as questions and information was thrown out left and right. How could fortune cookies be more exact? Hmm. "Maybe we can associate certain cookies with certain astrological signs?" she suggested. "Then you can eat a cookie assigned to your astrological sign and maybe get a better prediction."

Fortune cookies were good. Hazel listened closely to the professor, taking sips of her hot chocolate. Yum! This turned out to be a pretty good class! She raised her hand once her professor stopped talking.

"I agree that a spell or charm would be useful for this purpose, but couldn't there be certain fortunes that are better than others? Like, you can say something on the fortune that could be interpreted in different ways so it's believed to always be true for everyone. It's not exactly predicting, but it could help anyway." She set her hand back down and couldn't help but notice how cute the little house elves were. This sure beats tea leaves!

Marigold wriggled in her chair. She liked cookies. Plus, house elves. They were cute. But forTUNES? She wrinkled her nose. She usually just threw those away. The cookie was the good part. But fortune-telllllling was different.

Maybe there was a sort of fingerprint recognition scanner? She didn't know if that was common in the wizarding world (especially for food), and she didn't know how much the professor knew about muggles, so she just said, "Fingerprint match thingy."

Oh. Snake!Sophie's answer was better.

She knew her students would just have the best answers and she gave a little snap when she made the cookie into Zhara’s mouth. “Mr. Cutty I’ll see you later today to get started on the Crystal Balls.” She gave him a smile before pointing to the first student that had their hand up.

SPOILER!!: Charm/enchantment

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Originally Posted by Simon

Now that was an interesting question. Well the more general it was, the more people would connect to it, right? Simon raised his hand. "Well by making it more of a general statement it can be applied to multiple people. Though if you had a charm that could change the fortune based on the person who picked it up that could make it more truthful," he explained with a smile playing on his lip.

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Originally Posted by Ethan

“I agree with Simon, professor. A charm could be used to deliver an accurate reading…or maybe, use enchanted parchments for the cookies? The reading will be personalized once the cookie's touched?” That can also work no? Pre-charmed parchments for the fortune cookies would be most practical, and for the lazy ones, the most convenient.
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Originally Posted by Caleb

He raised his hand. "Maybe if you enchanted parchment to react to the DNA of the person? So it could tell a bit about you and make it more...personalized?" he suggested. It sounded far fetched, but crazier things had happened in the wizarding world...

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Originally Posted by Kace

But now he had a theory for the muggle and wizarding world. "Professor I think in the muggle world for fortune cookies, they might have a random generator and just put random fortunes in the cookies. But in the wizarding worldl like Simon said, I think there is a charm used." He was gonna stick with his fellow friends theory. It seemed logical to him.

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Originally Posted by Grayson

As for the question, he was going to go with what Simon had said because it was SMART. "I agree with what Simon said. A spell would be dead useful for something like this. It'd be individual to you, yeah? Maybe THAT's why you have to take a bite of the fortune cookie first." Or touch the piece of paper inside and then wait a couple of seconds for your fortune to generate?

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Originally Posted by Hazel

agree that a spell or charm would be useful for this purpose, but couldn't there be certain fortunes that are better than others? Like, you can say something on the fortune that could be interpreted in different ways so it's believed to always be true for everyone. It's not exactly predicting, but it could help anyway." She set her hand back down and couldn't help but notice how cute the little house elves were. This sure beats tea leaves!

She couldn’t help but beam at Simon, the first to answer and what a great answer it was. Looking to Ethan who agreed and Grayson who brought up charms she gave them all snaps. “Very good, Wizards have used charms on Fortune cookies before, but you have to know which charm and it has to be specific or you will get the wrong information to a person.” Looking to Kace she nodded, “Very good, though the generator I’m not sure. I think it’s more they have just random fortunes and whichever you get you get.” Hazel had a fantastic question and got snaps as well. “That’s exactly what it does. The majority of fortune cookies are vague, which means they could be interpreted in different ways. If I were to say a fortune for this room is you will find obstacles in your path today. Every single person could find one thing that could seem like an obstacle for today, which would make that fortune true.” So vague was better when it came to some of these, yes. Listen to Caleb she nodded, “You are correct, wizards do use the enchantment to go with specific fortunes and wizards getting them.” Way to be thinking, bravo to all of them.

SPOILER!!: Random/general

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Originally Posted by AJ

"Professor, if you just put random things on there that could apply to anybody like... you're going to have a good day then that could be true for anybody." It seemed like the easiest route for her. Surely her way would involve a charm, but that wouldn't be a true chinese fortune cookie would it?

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Originally Posted by Angel

Angel raised her hand and smiled. "Professor, maybe you could do general fortunes." Angel wasn't sure if it would work but it was worth a guess. "Like if I said in one that you will drive someone mad, well everyone drives someone mad at one point." Angel said truthfully. "Or you could put in the cookie, eventually you will make money." Angel was sure that would work.
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The twins seemed to have very close answers and they got snaps as well, “Just as Mr. Kace and Miss Hazel mentioned, they are more random and vague to fit a larger population. Very good thoughts girls.” It was interesting to hear all the different examples. Not a fan of the way muggles did it, though Cassie preferred a more accurate approach.

SPOILER!!: astrology

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Originally Posted by Penelope

Penelope was still trying to figure out what to say to the boy who had commented about the wheat when Professor Cassie told him about her wheat allergy. Now she didn't have to worry about what to say to him. She was not angry and irritated any more, but happy again, though not quite in the same bubbly state that she had been in. Professor Cassie and her excitement snaps made Penelope happier. If it wasn't for the professor and her snaps, Penelope would probably be sulking in a corner somewhere. It was almost impossible not to feel happy with Professor Cassie and the excited snapping.

How could fortune cookies be more accurate? Maybe if the fortunes were for your zodiac sign. The professor had mentioned that the would be using zodiac signs today, and had said that the restaurants do not know your astrology signs. Penelope knew what her zodiac sign was. She was a Cancer. "Maybe it would be more accurate if the fortune was for your zodiac sign, and more accurate if it was based off your birth chart?"

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Originally Posted by Adi

The third year pondered on the woman's question. Raising his hand a minute later, he said, "Put fortunes in to the cookies based on Zodiac sign, maybe? That way persons could just say which sign they fall under and they'd receive a cookie from that particular batch.'' Adi eyed the House elf who had asked if they wanted more hot chocolate (Pips). He waved his hand to attract the elf's attention. "Hi. Can I have a refill please?'' He whispered that part, not wanting to disturb the class because of his sweet craving.

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Originally Posted by sophie

Now class was getting serious again as questions and information was thrown out left and right. How could fortune cookies be more exact? Hmm. "Maybe we can associate certain cookies with certain astrological signs?" she suggested. "Then you can eat a cookie assigned to your astrological sign and maybe get a better prediction."
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Hearing Penelope, Cassie beamed and then turned towards Adi as he talked about Astrology too, as well as Sophie. “OHMYGOSH! Way to pull last lesson into this one. You are very ready for our activity now aren’t you.” They were smart little nifflers, weren’t they? “Astrology would be a great way to make it more accurate. You could still have the vague to attract a larger population to those signs, but you could make it more personal for an individual person. Their personalities come out with their signs, so if you have an Aries eat an Aries inspired cookie, they are going to find a more relatable fortune.” Wonderful job, just wonderful.

SPOILER!!: birth chart

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Originally Posted by Lux

Listening as Professor Cassie spoke, she definitely could see why the fortunes would be considered nonsense by a lot of people. Honestly she didn't really find Divination to be anything more than an interest, but she did still enjoy the lessons and Professor Cassie was awesome. Raising her hand, she tried to guess at an answer. "Would they be more accurate if they were based off of your birth chart?" Some people had said that using general saying could work, but as far as her understanding went that was what a lot of fortune cookies did anyway. And going off of Zodiac signs was more accurate but still a little up in the air. Birth charts had to be more accurate. Yep, she was going with birth chart.

Not that she REALLY held with that stuff. Hers hadn't been very accurate at all.

“Yes Lux, very good. If you know a lot about a person you can certainly make their fortune more accurate. So if you are making the cookies for just a small group you could make their birth charts and find out more about them.” It was a longer way around it, but a great idea all the same.

SPOILER!!: Control

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Originally Posted by Zandar

The Gryffindor tuned back in right before the next question was asked. Erm... That was a weird question. Uh, how would they be able to do that? "Well if you were able to control who the cookie went to... I reckon that'd make it easier?" How exactly they could do that? He had no clue. Maybe the Ravenclaws could work out this one.
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Looking towards Zander she nodded, “If you could hand pick which person got which cookie that would be a great idea. Some people do this, like I’ve seen marriage proposals in the fortune cookies. So designing your own to be very specific is always something that can be done.” It could go for actual fortunes as well.

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Originally Posted by Zhara

As for Professor...Merlin, what was her name again? ... her question.. "....uhm......" her first thought was..."What if... you EAT the fortune paper, right... and when you poop out the paper, it's got a tailor-made fortune on it. I mean 'cause then the paper would have FIRST hand knowledge of what you were made of. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT and all that. It'd just need some charms or whatnot and junk," so yeah,that was bloody brilliant. Throw this Lioness another cookie, she was ACING some Diviniation. WHO KNEW SHE HAD THE EYE? Haha!

She just stopped and blinked at the lady lion a few times. “You certainly think out of the box, don’t you.” Zhara got snaps. The girl was interesting, but she was certainly one to dance to her own beat and Cassie appreciated that. “If there were a charm that could help paper not be fully digested and that anyone would even want to touch it after it had made its way through, then yes that could be a way to be more accurate.” It was a thought, disgusting, but no matter a real thought that Cassie wasn’t going to ignore, but she was going to try and just move on. No one wanted to think of poop in a kitchen.

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Originally Posted by Alexa

If you asked her there were enough responses to allow for her silence and she thought it could have gone unquestioned, but it seemed the Professor had a question for her specifically. "I have Professor." Three words. Now way could one get in trouble for those.

…and there was the distraction she needed, Miss Cambridge. She made her way towards the girl, “Good, I’m glad. So if you’d like to share any knowledge about the subject that would be wonderful.” Participation was certainly a part of their grade and sitting quietly not really seeming to pay attention wasn’t a way to earn those participation points.

Turning back to the entire class and making her way to the main counter she gave a few more snaps of encouragement. “Wonderful answers all of them. I am just sooo impressed on how much you all know already. It’s a wonderful thing to come in and hear you all jump to answer questions.” With that being said she pulled her own little stack of parchment cards towards her. “Everyone had the greatest ideas, but the ones that said about Astrology were right on for what we are going to look at today. Now we talked and learned about Astrology last class, so I’m not going into any details this time with that.” She pointed to the Zodiac chart again, “What I want to really focus on is this chart. Mostly muggles, but some wizards enjoy horoscopes, myself included. They are fun ways to see predictions into your present and future. They are usually vague like I spoke about before and can be interrupted in many different ways.” The example of an obstacle hopefully was still in their minds.


She sorted out the card on the table in alphabetical order; Aquarius, Aries, Capricorn, Cancer, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, and Virgo. “Now we are going to be making fortune cookies today, but first before we even think about making the actual cookie, we will have to make the fortune. So what I’d like you to do is look at the horoscopes that I have come up with using Astrology charts. Pick three different Zodiac signs and make three different fortunes based on the horoscope.” Did that make sense? Well she was going to give an example if it didn’t. “So I’m going to pick up Leo and read the horoscope.” She carefully read the horoscope over and smiled, “This one is perfect, see here how it says you could be a giant wrecking ball that’s anxious to break down existing walls. Well that could be anyone of us. Show of hands, who is tired of being stuck in this castle and would love to break down the walls to get outside?” See how easy a horoscope can be true she thought to herself. “On my parchment I might write, Adventure can be found anywhere. Look around and don’t be afraid to find some. This way they could interpret it as finding something fun today in the castle not just focusing the energy on breaking the wall down.”

“Take about ten minutes to make three fortunes. Share the cards that I laid on each table. It doesn’t matter which three Zodiac signs you use, just please try to make the fortune based off what you read in the horoscope. Don’t just make up silly and not relatable things.” She started walking around the room in case there were any questions.

Ooc: In two posts have our charries pick three different zodiac signs and write three different fortunes (1 for each sign) I’m going to move the lesson on tomorrow evening EST. If you don’t get the two post in by then don’t freak you can still post, I just want to keep the lesson moving smoothly and timely!

Simon proceeded to write down the tips that Morgan explained to the class. So they were going to write fortunes out based on three signs that they chose cool!

But which signs should he choose? He pursed his lips and then read the various descriptions for each. That didn't really help narrowing it down so then the boy decided to go with the three star signs that were compatible on his birth chart. Those would be Leo, Cancer, and Taurus.

Picking up those three, he began to read the description and tried to figure out a way to write a fortune for them.

Hmmmmmmmmm..

Zander almost scoffed as he heard Professor Morgan trying to give Zahra's poop thing validity. Like really, what could possibly even go right with a poop fortune. But of course, she couldn't just flat out tell the girl it was dumb. She had to smile. Professor, Zander could volunteer to tell her what was truly meant because there was no actual way that she was even considering a poop fortune as an answer. Because really, poop of all things? Ugh. Suddenly, this hot chocolate wasn't all so appetizing anymore.

Setting the mug aside, he listened carefully to the next set of instructions. Welp, this class couldn't be anymore confusing. What did wrecking balls have to do with Zodiac signs? Nevertheless, the third year walked up and took a good look at all of the zodiac names. That one looked cool. The Sagit-sagi-sagitat-tarius one. That one. He probably read the paragraph about a million and two times. What the heck was that supposed to mean?

With a confused look on his face, the Gryffindor picked up his quill and began writing anyway.

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Be the sheep with the blue wool because regular wool is boring.
Don't walk in the corridors. Skip. Skip to your own beat.

It's okay to be different. Be proud of your unique qualities and show them off to the world.

.... Was that right?

Lux listened carefully as Professor Cassie responded to all the suggestions, and perked up when it was announced that the activity was starting. This sounded like fun, and Lux totally loved how Professor Cassie always had awesome activities for them to do. Professor Cassie was amazing.

Time for her to pick the signs. Gemini was an obvious choice because it was her sign. Cancer was obvious too because that was her compatible sign. Not according to her birth chart, but according to her because her Lion was a Cancer.

The third sign a was little hard to choose.

Spending a few minutes in trying to make up her mind, Lux finally settled on closing her eyes and going with whatever card her finger landed on.

And the winner is Pisces.

Well she may not have given a smart girl answer she certainly entertained the professor. Alright. Cinna's jaw dropped to the floor like seriously. Chocolate dipped fortune cookies? Now Professor Morgan how exactly was she suppose to focus on the rest of the lesson thinking about these chocolate dipped fortune cookies. It was bad enough that she was sitting beside her boyfriend in the lesson. Now she had to go start thinking about a chocolate dipped cookie.

She was done. Her focus gone. She didn't even answer the next question, besides everyone had said all of the good answers already. But she really liked Kace's and Marigold's answers. She would have said something along those lines too.

Anyway now that she had somehow gotten her head back on. She listened for what the activity they were going to do. So they were baking fortune cookies! She listened okay they had to pick three signs and write a fortune based on their horoscope. She listened to the professor read the horoscope. She raised her hand quickly at the question of being tired of being inside. Because she was very tired of it.

Cinna decided on what three zodiac signs she was going to do. She picked Taurus because that was hers, Gemini because that was Bart's tehe, and sagittarius because she just picked it randomly. She read them. Yeah, she was formulating ideas already.

With one fortune written down, Zander hurried up to look at the descriptions again. Alright, this wasn't actually that bad. Now, which one would he choose this time? They all sounded so funny. And weird. And it was really hard trying to pronounce that sagi-tar-ri-ar-i-us-... Yeah. Point proven. Anyways, this time he decided to go with one that was less tongue twisting and such. If he was going to write the fortune, it would help to know how to say the sign right? Right. It had been decided.

Anyways, making his way back to his table, the Gryffindor held his quill in hand again. Alright... What would he do for this one? The third year just stood and thought hard for a couple minutes, before finally deciding on what to write down!

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Hey you, try something new today! It's never too late to venture off the routine and go on an adventure.

.... Okay? Only one more to go.

Leah was thinking of cookies and cookies only. They were going to make cookies! Well, fortune cookies, but all the same. Unfortunately, the fortune part came first. She had to choose the three signs wisely. Didn't want to get a difficult one and mess up.

Three.. That reminded her of her compatible signs. What were they again? Aries, Gemini and.. Pisces yeah. Leah went up to the table, picked up the three cards and read their descriptions.

Not bad. She just needed to play around with these horoscopes and make ideas.

Angel looked at all the signs, she had no idea which three to go with so she did what she always did when she couldn't decide. She decided to do what all kids did and use the rhymes to get three picked and in the end she had chosen, Cancer... Aries and finally she picked Leo" Angel had no idea why no one else tried to do things like this because it was really awesome and fun.

AJ still wasn't sure if she believed in all of the future reading and fortune stuff, but she had to admit that it was kind of fun to mess with. At the very least, she never fell behind in this class. She also enjoyed her time spent in Professor Morgan's class. How could you not be in a good mood when she was constantly smiling?

What cards to pick? Aries was automatically picked because that was her sign. Hmmm... Cancer was picked because she remembered that it was compatible with her sign. Now she needed to pick one more. No other signs stuck out to her so AJ randomly picked Virgo. She just liked the sound of it, and that was a good enough reason as any.

Studenties wanted more hot chocolate and Pips was going to show he was a good elf. Yes Pips was a good elf. Hurrying along he moved towards the loud studentie first, "Hot chocolate missus" Pouring her more . Pips jumped a bit at her question and nodded eagerly "Pips gets marshmallows, Pips is a good elf"

Hiccup

He moved quickly and found the tiny marshmallows and brought them back to the studentie.

SPOILER!!: Adi

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Adi drained his cup of the last of the hot chocolate. Keeping warm was a good excuse to consume this deliciousness. Yep. But he was paying attention to Professor Cassie. The fortune cookie's history was rather interesting. Especially the part about Japan. He had always associated it with Chinese.

The third year pondered on the woman's question. Raising his hand a minute later, he said, "Put fortunes in to the cookies based on Zodiac sign, maybe? That way persons could just say which sign they fall under and they'd receive a cookie from that particular batch.'' Adi eyed the House elf who had asked if they wanted more hot chocolate (Pips). He waved his hand to attract the elf's attention. "Hi. Can I have a refill please?'' He whispered that part, not wanting to disturb the class because of his sweet craving.

Moving to another studentie Pips poured more hot chocolate for the boy. "Pips is a good elf" He said as he moved. Hiccup hiccup

SPOILER!!: Alexa

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

The inevitable had finally come to pass. With that last gulp, Alexa was through with her hot chocolate and her insides were getting cold from the sudden heat withdrawal. This needed fixing, it did, but it'd take her getting another cup of the stuff. Lex spun her head in a few directions, trying to find a reasonably close house elf but her attention was drawn back to the Professor at the sound of her name. A cat? No, just an Astronomer, though she'd hardly be saying that so she sat a bit straighter in her seat as if to show the woman now had her undivided attention.

If you asked her there were enough responses to allow for her silence and she thought it could have gone unquestioned, but it seemed the Professor had a question for her specifically. "I have Professor." Three words. Now way could one get in trouble for those.

At that she turned, realizing her opportunity for a fresh cup was within reach. "I'll have one." She informed the elf before snatching one from the serving tray. There, the world was in perfect order once more and her sipping motion could continu--

EHHHHH???

Sweet Merlin someone tell her the woman did NOT just say they'd be baking. This WAS Muggle Studies all over again except with no Lottie to do the work for her. Yeah...no, she didn't know how to make those things. This wouldn't end well.

Hiccup Hiccup Hiccup

Pips moved to the next studentie and began pouring more hot chocolate in her cup.

SPOILER!!: Kace

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

SPOILER!!: Pips the House Elf!

Kace heard the house elf Pip was it? Yup it was him and he wanted more hot chocolate. He was out and wanted a fresh glass. He raised his hand and said to the little guy, "Hey I want some please?" he asked politely. Then he heard the professor laugh at his response. He was glad he made her day. It is what he aims to do. Then he paid attention to her lecture and made a couple notes.

But now he had a theory for the muggle and wizarding world. "Professor I think in the muggle world for fortune cookies, they might have a random generator and just put random fortunes in the cookies. But in the wizarding worldl like Simon said, I think there is a charm used." He was gonna stick with his fellow friends theory. It seemed logical to him.

Hiccup

Pips moved to the next table and filled the studenties cup.

SPOILER!!: Zander

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

Merlin. POOP the fortune out?! Someone please take this girl away.

... Dear Merlin....

But ooh hot chocolate? Zander watched as the hiccuping elf made his way around the room. As the elf came around his table the Gryffindor waved his hand at him. "I'd like another please!" Poor house elves doing so much work. And the other one was just cleaning up in the middle of the room. The third year sent a smile towards him because wow, they were pretty hard workers, those elves.

The studenties were all so nice saying please. "Missus and Masters all saying please to Pips, Pips is a good elf" He poured the cup of hot chocolate before moving quickly to another studentie.

SPOILER!!: Grayson

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

Spot on! His answer was spot on!

A moment to be proud of himself? YES PLEASE.

The moment was short-lived when he heard the sound of the house elf's question. More hot chocolate? "Yeah, some for me too," Pause. "Please?" Because he had manners somewhere deep deep down inside him and he was told that if you needed something from someone, manners worked well. And charm. Two very important things.

What Grayson was taking from this discussion was that fortune cookies weren't that accurate. They didn't read your birth chart or Astrology sign or whatever so they knew absolutely zilch about you. And fate? That was still a bit wholly, wasn't it? Fate. He didn't care much for it, or knew too much about it, sooooo the fifteen year old shrugged it off.

As for the question, he was going to go with what Simon had said because it was SMART. "I agree with what Simon said. A spell would be dead useful for something like this. It'd be individual to you, yeah? Maybe THAT's why you have to take a bite of the fortune cookie first." Or touch the piece of paper inside and then wait a couple of seconds for your fortune to generate?

Whatever. He agreed.

More studenties wanted hot chocolate and Pips was going to do that.

Hiccup hiccup hiccup hiccup

"Pips is here to get you hot chocolate" He poured the hot liquid in the cup.


Hearing the Missus words Pips knew it was almost time for them to get to more work. Was everything ready? He looked around the kitchen with his big watery eyes.

Hiccup Hiccup

Cutty took the Ravenclaw's silent glaring as her thinking. Though the answer was quite simple as Professor Morgan had chimed in with an allergy as an explanation. It left Cutty more curious than before he'd asked his initial question. What would happen to someone if they ate wheat and were allergic to it?




Cutty's buggy brown eyes watched as the cookie landed straight into Kettleburn's mouth. In. Sane. His upper lip quivered in the beginning stages of a disbelieving sneer, but faltered as he realized he'd be in the North tower alone and possibly with access to paperwork. Was it cold? Yes. Why, yes. But the situation was ripe with potential.





With the sheet of parchment laid out in front of him, Cutty dipped his quill into his ink well and wrote down the name of one of the zodiac signs.






Someday, Cutty would make a point to own as many house elves as his budget would allow. He liked the broken way they spoke and how they couldn't go far enough to please you.



Cutty read the horoscope over one more time. Hopefully, his teacher would understand his interpretation as that seemed to be what she was asking for. He rummaged through the cards and found Taurus and Pisces.

Lucy listened the instructions of the Professor.
She know what signs to choose: Capricorn,her sign,Gemini the sign of her father and Taurus the sign of mom!
In a short time she could embrace her family!
Then she decided to write for the Capricorn her first message.
Thinking about the horoscope that she had read and about her shyness in taking the first step she wrote
: Lucy was satisfied!

Adi grinned. He had no idea would be so close to whatever activity Professor Morgan had planned for the lesson. But he was pleased with himself. Divination, much to his surprise, was turning out to be a great and fun subject. Turning his attention to Pips, Adi gave the elf a friendly smile. "That you are. Thanks a ton.'' He took a sip of the fresh hot chocolate. Delicious!

Activity time! They were actually going to make fortune cookies! This was so awesome. Adi listened to the instructions. Right. He could manage that. Randomly he selected Gemini, Libra and Pisces cards. Time to write fortunes.

Leo, Cancer, and Taurus.

He'd start off with Leo. After reading the message of one of the cards, Simon picked up a quill and began writing. He pursed his lips and frowned. This was sort of a sad fortune to the boy.



Simon moved on to Cancer's fortune. He read it, picked up his quill, and began writing. He smirked as he read it- amused by its fortune. Was the message simply: "Don't be afraid to be different?" He continued writing.



Okay now he had to do one more. Taurus. He picked up the fortune and read it. Despite being a Gemini, that fortune was sort of kind or relevant to him. With a quill in his left hand, he wrote a brief summary on a piece of parchment.

He chuckled and then glanced up to wait for the next step.

Now that she had picked what zodiac signs she was going to work on she reread them. She didn't understand this horoscope thing for Taurus. It was hers. She shrugged it off Starting with Taurus, she wrote on her parachment:

Next she took another parchment out. Reread the Gemini message. Well now this one sounded so depressing. Kinda. Poor Geminis feeling unloved. She felt like she was going to have to love on her Gemini after this lesson. But for those who didn't her to love on them. She wrote this message:

Now she was very proud of that last one. Proud lioness was proud. She just had one more to go now. She reread it. At least this wasn't as sad as the one before. She did like this one, too. The message on this one was very clear. She wrote:
Now this was some work that she was actually very proud of. She sat there ready for the next part of the lesson. Was it time to make the cookies. Oh yeah she still didn't forget about the chocolate dipped fortune cookies.

Jasmine just could not come up with a different and innovative answer to the Professor's question. How to make fortune cookies more personalized and accurate........drawing a blank. Deciding to sit this one out, she listened carefully to all of the suggestions that her classmates made.

When it was time for the main activity, Jasmine was ready. Professor Cassie explained what they would be doing and Jasmine tried to put her creative hat on. First though, she had to choose three zodiac signs to work with. Should she pick them randomly, based on the horoscope, or based on something more significant?

After giving it much thought, Jasmine decided what she would do. She would choose Aries because that was one of her compatible signs. Next would be Libra because that was her mother's zodiac sign. Finally, Jasmine chose Virgo because that was the sign of the person who was the most special to her. Taking a moment to read each horoscope, she thought about possible fortunes. Taking out her parchment and quill, Jasmine began to scribble down some notes.

Ohh, so she was right! Awesome! Sophie loved it when she was right. She felt a rush of pride swell through her as she listened to the rest of the directions. So all they needed to do was choose three astrological signs and make up a fortune for each one? Cool. She could do that.

Sophie randomly chose Pisces, Aquarius, and Scorpio. She began with Pisces and read the horoscope for it. As she read, she tried to pick up one overall theme she could focus on.

Notes
Pisces - focuses on breaking away from current commitments and become free of the burdens of them.

Now on to Aquarius. Sophie turned her attention to the horoscope for Aquarius read it, and then added to her notes.

Notes
Pisces - focuses on breaking away from current commitments and become free of the burdens of them.
Aquarius - focuses on opening yourself up to new ideas and possibilities and feeling differently about them than before.

Finally, she did the same with Scorpio.

Notes
Pisces - focuses on breaking away from current commitments and become free of the burdens of them.
Aquarius - focuses on opening yourself up to new ideas and possibilities and feeling differently about them than before.
Scorpio - focuses on widening your opinion of the world around you to see things you may not have seen before.

Well, that was that then. She had all the information she needed and could now create her fortunes.