Meh she'd be wrong with her answer but no big deal really cause that's why she was here. Not to be wrong of course but to learn. So without much care on her wrong answer she lifted Elvis up to her face and told him in a tiny hushed whisper, "See Elvis, I told you all was well and Professor Airey would never harm your kind." Nope cause the Professor was to epic for that and a huge Pet Rock lover. So all was well for her newest pet.

Setting Elvis back down on her desk she picked up her quill and tugged a sheet of parchment closer, her legs swings lightly back and forth beneath the desk. Not having much clue about why the moon was useful for the earth, though she knew that it certainly was, Hady choose to do some note taking. Any answers she thought made sense that were given were jotted down for the moment until further notice.

People were SNORTING at her answer. Leah could not help but smile herself before she proceeded to listening to other students' opinions.

Ohhh, so that was the process of making a moon. Fascinating. She liked the idea of Fission Theory, though. Imagine if the moon was originally part of earth! Unfortunately, she had to accept the theory that they were learning right now because she had absolutely no evidence that the fission one was right. Except the fact that it was cool.

Leah raised her hand after some thinking and scribbling on her journal. "Without the Moon, Earth would spin a lot much faster because uhhh," what was the reason again? She took a peek at her sequence of thought on her notes before continuing, "it is in charge of slowing down Earth's daily rotation."

If she was wrong then oh well never mind.

The moon was pretty. Grace liked the moon. She listened to her classmates answered, making notes. It was her owls this year, so she wanted to make sure she had lots of notes to help her revise when it came to it. A few seconds later, she raised her hand. She knew an answer too. "The moon controls the tides Sir..." She thought so anyway. "So without the moon.... the tides would be all weird, which wouldn't be too good..." Or it wouldn't be good for the people that lived near the sea anyway.

After Janelle's heart rate had returned to normal, she was able to focus on the class discussion......sort of. Then the next question was presented and she had to think. Why was the moon important? Hmmm. That was a hard one. She had some ideas, but they seemed pretty lame and besides her best idea had already been taken. Raising her hand, Janelle decided to add her two cents to the conversation.

"I think the moon is important because.......it gives us light at night.....well when it isn't cloudy. And it has something to do with the tides. i think it helps control them.....so that's important."

Sooooo.... he had been wrong, BUT... at least he was still a good thinker! Apparently. He'd take that to be a small victory, as far as victories went.

Yep.

As for EVERYTHING that came after that. Formation theories? He wrote that down. It would be their assignment... so he'd need to know it sooner or later - sooner would be preferable if he wanted to pass.

...

And so, back to the moon.

Jeez.

Wasn't that obvious? "It's important for magic, Professor," he said, hand waving in the air like he just didn't care - 'cept he did. "Like it affects the power of wand magic and should be taken into account for some potions because of its ability to bind agents and cause effects, then there's the whole werewolf thing too. So for US it's super important because it allows us to do things that we sometimes might not be able to, or to simply do it better, but more than that, we're surrounded by magic all the time, so who's to say that the earth isn't made of magic too... which would mean that the moon would have a HUGE impact on it as well as on us."

She had been right?! Yeah! Oooooh, ooooh. She totally knew the answer to the next question! She raised her hand in excitement, but forgot the small fact that she was still under her desk. Her hand smacked into the underside of her desk. Oh ow. But she ignored it and called out her answer anyway when she had the chance.

"We need the moon! It regulates the water, and the currents. If the moon was smacked into like that planet thing was and it was moved closer to earth there would be giant waves and we all might die. Or if it was hit so it moved away, there would be no waves and we would probably still die." So, to recap, without the moon they would die.

Izaac was a little distracted during the first question due to the, whatever it was, happening above him. The bang, the debris... it was cool. Big Bang or something? Was it? Zac wasn't paying attention. Once he heard the professor's voice again addressing the class, he squinted his eyes to focus on him.

This lesson was kinda cool, and something that interested Izaac. Not that he was a Astronomy whiz or anything, but he wanted to find out more about it. Space and stuff was cool. Moons. Why is the moon important? His eyes looked back upwards and he titled his head. Moon. He had only one idea that everyone else was pretty much saying - light. Oh, and someone mentioned the werewolves as well. Darn.

He sat and thought about it for a moment before shyly raising his hand. BARELY raising his hand, actually, until he had room to speak. "It's important because... there could be things," Aliens, "living on there?" Not that it impacted the Earth much, but he was sure scientists would excited by it. "I think it'd be dark without the moon. But then again, we got street lamps at night, so." SHRUG.

Hurhur. Yes, she enjoyed that little golf clap from the professor.

Natalia nodded intently as she listened to Professor Flamsteed's correct explanation of how the asteroid belt was formed. Later when the debris fused together into a much smaller sphere, Natalia's mouth formed a small 'O' as she realized why the demonstration was actually the formation of the moon.

When the professor started lecturing again, Natalia couldn't help notice his quirkiness! Did he just jump onto that student's desk? o.O Natalia coughed out a small giggle as the Professor Cray-Cray continued his fascination with astronomy. Still giggling, Natalia decided to jot down some of the information, because she was a good student like that. Probably only for astronomy though.

Ooooh reading about other moon formation theories! FUUUUN! Natalia was already to brainstorm which possible theories she could work on for homework, but she directed her attention back to Professor Cray-Cray as he spoke again.

"Well the moon is important in many ways!" Should she start spitting out some of them right now? "Two of the most important ones - I think, I least - are the earth's twenty-three and a-half degrees obliquity, which gives us our seasons, and tidal currents, which just...give us waves. And waves are nice!" Natalia was starting to become more enthusiastic by the minute of space-talking! "Earth without the moon? Well...good luck dealing with tidal and climate changes. We'd probably be able to survive..." Natalia was calculating in a very rational manner all the variables to sustainable life on Earth. She should know this! Her mother was an astrobiologist! "...survive until the climate goes COMPLETELY bizarre and we die. Yeah."

Haha, oops. Lux really wasn't good with all this science stuff so it was a miracle that she had gotten an E on the exam. Nodding, she took out her notebook and recorded that little bit of information. Time to get her brain into gear for SCIENCE.

Some more information was recorded, and he asked about the moon. There was supposed to be a man in the moon, but she somehow doubted Flammy believed in that. Giving the question some thought, Lux raised her hand to answer. "Well, I know the moon controls the tides. Without waves, boats wouldn't really be able to move on water and people couldn't surf. And if there were super giant waves, people would DIE." Yep. Controlling the tides was important!

Ooh. Ooh. OOH. TOBY KNEW THAT, HE COULD HELP. The Hufflepuff quickly raised his hand and provided what he thought might be the answer, looking between Airey and Margo, the student he'd been addressing.

"An expansion, Professor. Less of a bang and more of a-" here he used his hands to sort of demonstrate something rapidly expanding, as though he had hold of a balloon that was being inflated "-whooooooosh, I suppose." His hands kept doing the expanding thing, on account of how the universe was still expanding, until his arms could spread no wider. Uh-huh. Yep. Whoosh.

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Notes notes notes at all these answers. Or, well, he tried, at least. But there were only so many notes you could make before it got easier to just sit and listen to what was being said rather than risk forgetting it because you were writing something said five minutes ago. Soph took good notes; he'd borrow those later.

Of course, Toby was totally prepared for the desk jumping. Every answer he GAVE was in the hopes that it would be good enough for Airey to leap on up there. And he knew the signs, so quickly scooted his parchment and in out the way, grinning all the while because it meant he had a good answer. A good OBSERVATION. Aw yis.

That was pretty cool, though, and Toby peeked around Airey to get a better look at those classroom-celestial objects, which he now knew to be the Earth and a forming Moon, and which he now kept in mind as he observed, right up until that next question. Or series of questions.

At which point he raised his hand again, the one holding the spongy bit of Moon.

"I reckon... the Earth would be different without the Moon, obviously. Life would be different, 'cause it'd change a whole bunch of stuff, like people said. Tides and light and shorter days and all, but I think we'd mostly adjust. Though I wonder how life would have evolved if there'd been no Moon in the first place, 'cause I'm sure there'd still be life here." That was a very longwinded way of Toby saying that he didn't know, and was theorising instead. "If we didn't have the moon then there probably wouldn't be werewolves, or perhaps there would be a different sort of condition instead. OH, that reminds me, we wouldn't have certain words either, would we, if the Moon never turned up? Wolves would have different Latin names and the word 'lunatic' wouldn't exist and there would be no-one named Luna." It seemed for a split second that Toby was done talking then, BUT ALAS. "Professor Airey, does the Moon help Earth when it comes to asteroids and stuff? Maybe help pull them off course with its own gravity? If so, that wouldn't happen if it wasn't there."

Okay, so it was slightly redundant to tack that on the end there, but #yolo.

The Moon. Dante was not really paying attention to the first question. But the one thing Dante did realize is Professor Airey is as energetic as ever. and they were just talking about the Moon. The thing you see almost every night.

"Besides it being weird to look outside at night and not see the Moon. There is the tide stuff and maybe some earthquakes and volcanoes getting more active. You know end of the world type stuff."

You know like in those movies and stuff. All the cool explosions and stuff.

It is not like nothing would change.

Yaaaaay, the moooon! Dot bounced along in her seat in celebration of the professor's excitement. THEY MADE A MOON AND NOT JUST ANY MOON BUT THEIR OWN MOON. Weren't they clever? Even if... none of them had done anything except StarMan.

Dot was delighted by her right answer, and by the professor on her desk, and she really hoped that she'd come up with something clever again. Or not clever, since she was just using common sense and wasn't clever in the least. Speaking clever... too clever... terribly awfully annoyingly clever... "Professor, Hughbert is hurting my brain. ERGOOOOOO, he needs to go out in the hall and think about what he's done."

Just saying. But to the question. "We pull on the moon, right? With gravity? But it must also pull back on us some, so that probably makes us spin different than if it wasn't there. Is the moon big enough to have a moon of its own? In theory, I mean?"

Angel listened to what the Professor said and raised her hand. "Professor, doesn't the moon cause the tides and things like that, so I take it that we need the moon to do a lot of things, so if we didn't have the moon then we will be living in a different world." Angel said truthfully.

The moon! That was what it represented! Yes, now she remembered reading about how the moon came into existence. Penelope took notes on everything that Professor Flamsteed was saying. "The moon is large compared to the size of Earth." Moons of other planets were much smaller in comparison to the size of the planet they orbited. Just a random fact about the moon. Now, why was the moon important? "The gravity of the moon causes tides." Tides were important, right? There were so many interesting things to learn about the moon!

AAAAAAAYYY! She was right! Kinda. Norah beamed at Professor Flamsteed as he leapt onto her desk, not even doing a little jump thing 'cause she was a fourth year now and was supposed to look like she was used to it. Didn't stop it from being EXCITING though, obviously.

She wrote the real-est version of the answer on her parchment as the other students answered, then itched her nose with the back of her quill. Wait no. She scratched her nose with the back of her quill. DIDJA SEE THAT MUM? CORRECT WORDING THIS TIME. Ahem. She'd have to owl her mum all about it 'cause it took her ages to learn that one. But MOONS. Um um. The only thing she could think of was about waves, but people had already said that....she'd say it anyways though. Just 'cause she had to say SOMETHING. Norah put a hand in the air, but didn't wave it around 'cause her answer was booooring this time. "Well first off it'd be crazy dark at night time if there wasn't a moon 'cause nothing would be reflecting the sun's light or anything. Aaaaand the moon makes there be tides except I don't really know why. But there wouldn't be tides if there was no moon. Probably. How does the moon change our ocean from all the way out there anyways?" The more she thought about it the more it really made no sense. Maybe Sebby had been lying when he'd told her that. Stupid brothers, you never knew when they were telling the truth.

Echo had really no idea why the Earth needed the Moon, so she took a guess. "Sir, would it be for protection?" it was worth a shot right.. she hoped that it was some what right.. because if something was coming towards earth it could "accidentally" hit the moon and take the impact instead of the earth, right... that could happen......

While other people were answering she watched the little pieces falling in the air. It kind of looked pretty... falling and swirling around, she just watched that for a while.

Well, two questions in one? The first one… not a big bang? Hmm… Zhenya remembered reading something about the creation of the universe, so she raised her hand to see if she remembered correctly. "Professor, I read that the universe was in a hot, dense state, then it began to expand, then cool, rather than bang." So was earth just a tiny little planet, which expanded?

Her answer wasn't right, but it was close. Hmm… she waited until the correct answer revealed itself and smiled to herself. She enjoyed looking at the stars, who didn't? But more than that, she enjoyed looking at the beautiful moon, and observing its different stages. But why was the moon so important? She raised her hand, waited, then said "Professor the moon's gravitational pull," was that the word? "causes the ocean tide to rise and fall." She paused to remember the rest, "Uh and that was important for evolution, and still is, because it lets different organisms that are in the ocean time to adapt to living out of the water too." That WAS important. Weren't humans evolved from an organism which had adapted to surviving outside the water? Did she read that somewhere or was her mind just pulling her leg? "So no, I don't think earth would be okay without the moon. Well, perhaps one big method of evolution would be taken away anyway." So… maybe for human evolution it wouldn't matter anymore. But surely it would still matter if the moon was no longer there, the ocean level remained the same, and these organisms didn't have the chance to survive and adapt outside.

Kace was dazing for one of the questions before he could come back to reality and he heard the next question. He heard Professor Airey asking why is the moon important? Would the Earth be able to live without it. Kace thought about this one and then heard the other student's answers and he agreed with all of them. Well maybe not all but some of them. He decided to take a shot. He raised his hand and said,

"Professor I think the moon is very important. I mean not only does it control our tides in the ocean but it also provides us moonlight which we sometimes need in the dark. It also controls the climate and helps stops the earth's rotation."

That is all he knew so far. He remained silent and waited for Professor Airey to move on.

So this whole thing was...different.

Jenna still wasn't sure what to make of that whole display in the beginning - creative, sure, but also pretty startling. David had said Flamsteed's astronomy classes were 'cool', but that simply translated as 'weird' in Jenna's mind. She certainly wasn't taking her brother's opinions on anything seriously.

At the very least, this whole thing wasn't boring yet. She didn't have anything to add as an answer for this question though, so she simply took notes for now, carefully watching everything.

The moment answers were given for the first question, Ethan had his quill at the ready, and started to scribble down notes. He knew he’d need those answers and remarks from Flamsteed later on. Though his answer was not entirely correct, it somehow validated him that his brain wasn’t spewing nonsense in that class. Second question was up, and the Slytherin occasionally nodded to some of his fellow’s answers.

And...did that kid just mentioned Divination? Lulz. Ethan can imagine Flamsteed’s brain get all wonky for a few seconds. He knew he was sort of...allergic to the topic. Pushing that thought aside, the sixteen year old raised his hand to answer. “It brings balance,” to the Force, “and order to the Earth’s climate. I think the Moon has this responsibility to keep the Earth’s tilt in place, thus giving us the seasons...” Okay, maybe he should stop now? That answer wasn’t eloquently structured, but that will do.

He had been trying to write things down, but when it came to Astronomy and Flamsteed, it was pretty hopeless. The moon? Oh this one was SIMPLE. Easy answer really. Kyroh raised his hand, a grin on his face.

"Without the moon we wouldn't have anything to stare up at the sky at and greet us whenever we're feeling sad and lonely." Or insignificant. Seeing the moon just made you feel better, even if it was only half or a quarter or whatever.

WHY was the moon important? Caleb didn't know, and didn't really care honestly. But this had to be going somewhere, and he had a feeling he was going to learn just how awful the world would be WITHOUT the moon. Although what Flamsteed said about the Moon being a perfect sphere and whatnot and wondering how it got like that...that was kind of interesting. Kind of.

Caleb raised his hand. "Doesn't the moon have some sort of influence on Earth's magnetic field? Or something like that?" he said. So if they didn't have the moon, that would be all messed up. Right?

What would the earth be like without the moon? He paused trying to think, slowly raising his hand, "I don't know if it's true or not, but aren't there certain flowers that bloom to the moonlight?" Hey at least it was a bit different from most of the answers right? Maybe it didn't matter to others at much, but he actually enjoyed helping his sibling's nanny with their garden, and they did have a couple that would only bloom at night... He mentally shrugged, at least he was trying.

Marsha sighed as she was told that she was wrong. Oh well, it was only her first class - but at least she was trying right? Right. Or at least that was what she had always been told so she hoped that it stood to be true at school… or rather at THIS school specifically. Biting her bottom lip, she listened to the other thoughts, theories and suggestions of the other students in her class and took down notes on what she thought might be relevant in the future.

WOAH. That was their moon?

That was pretty cool. How did their moon affect them? Well, uh…. As she continued to listen people suggested that it affected the tides just like the sun, only more so. And someone mentioned that the moon affected their gravitational pull. Holding up her hand, Marsha added; ”Professor Airey, if … the moon the speed that we rotate,” She was pretty sure that she was understanding the others properly… maybe? Griffins…

”Does that mean that the moon lets us get the right about of sunlight each day? That without it we would either have too much sunlight or not enough sunlight a day? I’m not sure if the moon slows us down or speeds us up - but whichever way it goes… As without that we would be too hot or too cold… crops and plants wouldn’t grow the same, etc. Or, they would have at the very least, had to adapt to suit the new situation and way of life… Or they would have died.” That made her frown - she didn’t like the idea of all of the plant life and creatures on Earth dying or not being around any more.

The moment when Flamsteed talked about moon, he suddenly remembered the song from Frank Sinatra that talked about moon. Moon River, right? He hummed the song while the students were trying to answer his question.

Moon river, wider than a mile. I'm crossing you in style some day...

Wait... back to the study.

Why don't he tried to participate actively, huh? The Korean guy then raised his hand and tried to answer. "Well uh... because there's a force between moon and Earth that control the ocean.." He didn't know the exact word but at least he tried, right?