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Marigold had turned a bit pale, even after eating food, because stomach things GROSSED HER OUT. It was WEIRD. It was just one of those things. So she scrunched herself close together, arms crossed over her stomach, and raised her voice to be heard. "Gastromancy?" she asked. She had heard that word before somewhere. |
Zhenya tried not to crack a smile as she looked Adi in the eye, siriusly, and said "No, just one." She waited a few seconds before her composure cracked and she giggled, offering more than one to Adi. And now onto flatulence. Zhenya tried so hard to keep a straight face, but she was still a bit giggly from all the fun they had been having, and she felt her face involuntarily crack into a big grin, a giggle bubbling up. Honestly, she was SEVENTEEN! She should be more mature than this. But she actually wasn't. She vaguely remembered something about it, and was a but annoyed at herself for not thinking about it in the first place. Not joining the dots. Food + divination = not a party. Well, a party maybe but not the answer Professor Cassie was looking for. The bit she did remember from the gas-divination, she decided she should say. She raised her hand and waited to be called on, "People used to listen to the gut sounds and interpret it as the dead talking to them," or something like that. |
SPOILER!!: Henric Ilia was glad that she sat next to Henric, as usual. When she saw everyone get up and start moving around though.......she choked back a giggle. Some people were moving in some pretty ridiculous ways to her and she felt more comfortable sitting and watching in this case. She sat next to Henric and lightly picked here and there at her food, only taking a bite or two. He almost sounded......nervous?....when he asked if she was going to dance too. "I kind of think watching is more fun right now." She grinned back at him. She liked to dance and could do so pretty well, but the other students were more entertaining. This was an awkward setting to dance in and she was just wearing jeans and a white sweater top. She listened to the other student's answers and the teachers response. They....wait.....what!? Ilia wasn't the prissy girl around but.....that sounded gross. She had a feeling that she would NOT be enjoying this class and firmly decided that she would be sticking close to Henric. |
Penelope sat down when Professor Cassie said that they should find their seats again. There was a kind of divination about stomach sounds? Fascinating. Apparently there were branches of divination for everything. However, she wasn't sure what this particular form of divination was called. Many other students seemed to agree that it was called gastromancy. Gastromancy would be a logical name for it because gastro meant that it had something to do with the stomach. So it probably was gastromancy. "Gastromancy, because gastro means relating to the stomach." What was that second part of the question? Use it on somebody who has already passed on? "They used it on dead people?" Eeew. Why would anyone do that? And how could they hear dead people's stomach sounds if the people had been buried in the cemetery or had been dead for so long that they didn't have stomachs producing stomach noises? They weren't going to have to do that, right? Just on living people with the food that they were eating. Penelope turned her attention back to her food. She sipped her soda and nibbled on the food as she listened to what other people were saying. So, how could stomach sounds be used for divination? She was slightly skeptical that stomach sounds could tell you anything that would be useful for divination purposes. |
Norah didn't even have time to get excited about spending a whole class talking about food because Professor Cassie had already moved on to another question she didn't know the answer to. How did people just KNOW things? She felt as if she never knew anything at all except for what Sebby had told her and he was only ELEVEN which now that she thought about it made this whole entire thing loads worse. Fourth years were supposed to be SMART. She'd have to get Sophie to teach her all the thing sometime because it was really getting lame to know less than everybody ever. Sliding down in her seat until the bridge of her nose was level with the table, the fourteen year old put all of her grapes into her mouth until they bulged in her cheeks and made her look like a rather lumpy chipmunk. Somebody else could answer the question. Norah still didn't have an answer, alright? Nothing new here. |
Henric inwardly sighed in relieve that llia said she wasn't going to dance too. If she did, he needed to be gentlemanly and asked her to dance with him, right? His dad thought him that he must.He was even more relief that the professor decided to cease the dancing and the music playing so they could continue with her lesson...yes..thank you, thank yoouu...professor Cassie! He made sure to pay her a visit one day.yup. ---------------- Henric continued listening to the professor talking about the dead and stuff. Interesting stuff, it was once believe they could talk to the undead by listening to the sound of a dead body would make? But didn't they have the ghosts and the moving talking portraits to talk to? It wasn't the same of course, they were talking to only memoirs.Hmm..right...back then..anyone believed anything they found out of the ordinary or superstitious. Uhh....Gastro..what..Mancy? It was the first time he had heard of it, and he was surprised that a lot of the students knew of the answer. |
SPOILER!!: Hady He should have known Hady would be more organised, and so long as she didn't mind he was happy to take her up on her soda offer. He watched her take it out of her bag, Cherry Cola, he wouldn't say no to that. "Sure, I'll just have a bit though." ... .... It was a shame that Professor Cassie had misinterpreted what he was saying, he didn't mean they could EAT them, he meant they could TASTE then, as in, they had FLAVOURS... but alas... OH WELL. Seemed he was bring up the wrong tree anyway. As Professor Cassie continued talking though, he found it increasingly difficult to keep a straight face. GAS? They were going to be farting and things... in front of each other? HAHAHAHAHA.. Ahem. Zeke smirked in an attempt to keep in the laughter. GAS!!!! He wasn't even going to attempt to answer her next question, because he had NO idea. None. Unless it was GASOMANCY. Was it? |
So, this wasn't about the healthy food but the ones that could produce gas to your stomach. He just knew about that. He kept listening to the Professor Cassie as he munched his peach. Nom nom. So, they're gonna learn about gut sounds? To be honest, it sounded gross. Especially when there's an older student burping. EEEEEWWWW!! It was totally gross... and impolite. He wasn't a person who often act with polite manners but still... Burping in front of many people and there's a Professor in it? Not good. The Korean guy couldn't help but shook his head. "Well uh.. does it related about listening to your gut when making decision?" He tried to answer. |
Of course Yoongi had opened up his divination book before going to school in the hope of getting some kind of information. But whatever the Professor was asking what kind of form of Divination it would be if one would be leaning over a grave in a cemetery he had no idea. Graves, cemeteries, death were not really his cup of tea and he probably skipped that chapter. He did laugh a bit at a young Gryffindor’s question (Rusty). Well, he had correctly answered the previous question so he decided to not answer this one because he had no clue. Instead, he stopped eating because the talk about the death and farts and stuff made him lose his appetite and grabbed his Divination notebook instead, ready to scribble down notes. ………………….Did someone just burp out loud? Yoongi turned his head in a Hufflepuff’s direction (Kace) and looked extremely disgusted. |
Huhhh she didn't get snaps! Well, her answer WAS kind of bad. It was all because of Noel haha. She sat down again, rather reluctantly, pulling him along. Oh. The real answer was pretty unexpected - gassy food. Who would have guessed THAT? And then the music was off and the lights dimmed. Great, Leah liked dramatic settings. "Gas something," she said with her hand raised. Listening to her classmates speaking up, she remembered the term. "Oh yeah, Gastromancy." After a pause, she continued, "Are dead people easier to work with?" It was a guess. She did not really want to think about it anymore. |
Gassy food? THAT was the answer? Noel didn't appreciate it because things could get a little nasty in the classroom if everyone kept eating like this. THANKFULLY he hadn't tried anything yet thinking it had been just healthy food. Noel let Leah pull him down and watched as the lights dim. Ohh theatrics. Everyone else started giving the answer .. so there was no point repeating it. But he did ask: "Dead people have gas?" |
No more moving? Boo. AJ took her seat and continued to popped the last of her food in her mouth. Now maybe should concentrate. Actually that wasn't likely. She was more in the mood for a nap now. Yawn. But then her ears perked up, and suddenly the last thing she wanted was a nap. Farts, farts, farts. This was highly amusing and the lion didn't even try to hide her laugh. This was going to be one of the funniest lessons ever. She wondered how the girly girls in this class would be reacting. Yes, AJ was really a ten year old boy at heart. It seemed like a huffie boy had the same idea as her, but she couldn't not ask. "Dead people can't fart... can they, professor?" Or were magical dead people different? |
SPOILER!!: Answers Swooshing her wand towards the board behind her desk, the word Gastromancy formed. “Wonderful answers everyone. Gastromancy is what we will be studying today. I’d like to start with what some would call the darker side to it. It was related to dark magic at one time, because people felt communicating with the dead through their bodies was something that should be left alone. “ With that she walked away from her desk with a grin on her face, “Please stand up and back away from the desks for a moment.” Watching them all she waited for all to be standing before she moved her wand changing the room to be charmed as if they were standing in the middle of a cemetery. Tapping herself with her wand her comfy clothes transfigured into a black dress, Nessa wasn’t the only one that could put on a performance, hehe, Cassie was sure to learn some tricks from her best friend. “Now imagine we are in 1625. People used Gastromancy to speak with the dead. Some felt it was to cast the demons and curses away, while others wanted and omen, basically they wanted to know what their future would be without that person. If disease took them the spouse was trying to make sure the same disease wouldn’t come over the rest of the family. If it was a killing, the spouse was most likely trying to find out who did it. There were many different reasons for doing this, but always the same outcomes.” She walked closer to a tombstone and then turned to face the class once more. “Now I do have a few things for you to think about. The first is, people are buried six feet below ground. How could anyone hear the stomach noises from that far down? The second thing is what is the different noises that could happen and what do you think they would mean?” She paused a moment to let them think about this. Without warning she started to sniffle and pretend cry, dramatics were super fun! “Oh goodness me, it’s 1625 and my husband has just died a horrible death from disease.” She sniffled again, “Please help me, how can I find out if I am going to have the same fate? “ She tried to stay in character, but Nessa was better, she couldn’t help but grin. “If you were the Diviner going to do this, what steps would you do to get the answers I’m looking for? Take a few minutes and discuss this with each other.” She couldn’t wait to hear their steps and responses; this was so fun minus the creepy graveyard. |
So Gastromancy was believed to be dark magic at one point of time because people thought that communicating with the dead was …bad. Well, they communicated with the ghosts right? And they weren’t evil. Atleast he thought not. After scribbling down some useful notes, Yoongi got up from his chair as the Professor told them to and watched as she changed her clothes to a black dress with a tap of her wand. Then the classroom changed and not in the good way. A second later, they were in a cemetery and if there was one thing that Yoongi did not like apart from…dead bodies and gore and sadness and stuff. Was everything combinated in a cemetery. Looking around as if a grave would pop open and a zombie would crawl out, Yoongi followed the Professor to a tombstone. All the while he stayed close to someone, ready to grab the person’s arm if things got too scary. And no, he did not care if it was a first year. If something happened he was outta here. Possibly even screaming in fear. ‘Focus on the questions Yoongi, you’ll be fine’ he told himself. “Well, first of all I would get the hell out of here, go to a healer and put on protection spells in case the thing that got your husband gets to you” whaaaat? He wanted to get out of here! T___T |
Adi popped another one of the berries Zhenya had offered him and chewed thoughtfully. Look at that. His answer had been sort of a guess but he had happened to be on the right track. Also, the nail and stuff growing even AFTER someone died? Cool! No, wait... it was beyond FASCINATING! And that burp from Kace... LOL! Better out than in, eh? Cramming another berry in his mouth, Adi jumped up again, holding his hand out to Zhenya to help her up before moving away from the desks. WOAAAH! It was a GRAVEYARD! SUPER cool, yo! But where was the Grim Reaper? LOL! It was the subject of a future tattoo that he was going to have. Now to picture 1625... how exactly did that look? Adi supposed everything would be ancient; old looking. Hmmm. Interesting questions. The Huffie took a moment to consider them before casting a look at the Slytherin girl beside him. "Maybe to the seeker or the person who wanted to do a reading, the gases sound louder to them alone,'' was the suggestion from him. "Um, um, how about a really loud wail like Kace's burp signalling something really dangerous?'' That was TOTALLLLLY wild guess there. Adi replayed Professor Cassie's little enactment in his head before continuing. "I think the steps would be to find a body fresh enough to head the gasses, clear the mind and then ask the question you want answers to before listening to the sounds and interpreting them.'' Clearing the mind was vital, was it not? Adi glanced towards the Professor and repeated what he had said to Zhenya earlier so that she could hear it this time, his hand up. |
When a loud BUUUUURP punctuated the classroom, Lux had to LOL. Of course it would be Kace to start off the lesson for everyone. Smiling, she gave her friend a thumbs up because wow that had been a loud one. And nope, this wasn't sarcasm either. Hmmm, so she was right about people being desperate to communicate with dead loved ones, but that wasn't the reason for this form of Divination. Honestly she couldn't remember what she had read about it because she was too busy wondering what farting and burping had to do with telling the future. Lux had a feeling that this would be an interesting lesson and she WAS curious to see where this would go. After cramming a few food items into her mouth and hands (table manners were out the window after all), Lux stepped away from the desks... and into a cemetery. Obviously it wasn't REALLY a cemetery, but wow did it look legit. As she listened to Professor Cassie, she looked around at the different tombstones. There had been a time where she might have been scared in case ghosts came, but now she was older and not scared of ghosts anymore. Some great questions were raised, and props to Professor Cassie for pulling a Glendower move with the dramatics. Theatre was a lot of fun even though her only experience with it so far had been in the History of Magic classroom. This wasn't the time to dwell on that stuff, though. Biting her lip, Lux became thoughtful as she tried to work out answers to the questions. Clearly she wasn't good at this stuff, because she was stumped. |
The blonde turned her head when she heard her boyfriend burp REALLY, REALLY loud! The sixth year covered her mouth and giggled. That was funny but she was pretty sure that wasn't what this lesson would be about at all. Actually she had no idea what it was that they would be doing. Emmylou happily listened to Professor Morgan and stood up. Where were they going? Or were they going to be doing some type of exercise. Oooooh. Oh? A cemetery? Spooky. So they were going to speak with the dead? Like people that are buried six feet in the ground and like all bones now? But who was there to speak to? Have witches and wizards always done this and would Emmylou be able to speak to her dead dog or just see him? The sixth year raised her hand. "Excuse me? Professor? Would this work on a pet that passes away?" She questioned and then began to continue. "I mean I know that dogs or anything can't talk to us but would it be possible to maybe just see them again?" That would make Emmylou happy, to see her favorite dog in the flesh or would it be in ghost form? She was excited and confused. |
This... gastromancy sounded so... sketchy to Natalia. How would a dead person's stomach give any information of the future? Crystal balls, tarot cards, and stars even... they have some basis of belief (because Natalia personality thought that the predictions from these methods were rather accurate). But..listening to dead stomachs! Does that even work? Sketchy. Oh Merlin, so they were actually trying to mimic the situation, huh? Authentic location, time, and story line! How interesting...if this was a theater class. "Well, I suppose since we're wizards, we always have some kind of spell to amplify sounds." Natalia tried to think of the actual spell that could magnify sounds. "Would sonorous work?' She already knew that the incantation would work on human voices but was uncertain whether it applied to...stomach noises. What, did the professor just start...acting? Well, the acting was rather decent. To Natalia though, knowing that this was a performance aimed at personifying the situation, she couldn't help but let out a very quiet chuckle. Natalia never had any obvious clairvoyant abilities. She would have absolutely no idea how she would interpret all the different gastric sounds. Frankly, if Natalia heard noises from the stomachs of the dead, she would be very, very scared. For this part of the question, Natalia remained silent as she had nothing useful to contribute to the class. |
Don't mind us.. just.. figuring life out here. What in the world was going on? Izzy stood from her desk and watched as they cleared and the graveyard scene appeared.. what was happening. was it a funeral of someone whose died?!? In class!? She watched the professor curiously as she began to.... cry................... it was her husband!? "what?" she whispered lowly. Professor Cassie was just smiling though and the girl was never more confused in her who life. Especially when she turned to them and smiled again.... "wouldn't a wife be too distraught to sit and listen to anything?" She was clearly thinking way too into this death thing and it was going to be the death of her for sure. |
...what was going on? Eden one minute was EATING, then standing, then.......the room was a cemetery. O_____o WHAT? She didn't like this much...it felt eerie and weird and she knew her mother wouldn't like this at ALL. Irene McGee was not about that cemetery life. NOPE TO THE NOPE. So Eden just glanced at all the tomb stones..and then to Professor Morgan..and widened her eyes. This class was hard. Her brain just wasn't thinking of things correctly. It was probably all the food. Eden just loved food so much ;__; "Um...well..I wouldn't recommend digging up the body. That's always a bad idea." All horror books/movies had taught her THAT. "Um...wouldn't you just...eat food...stand near the grave and..see what your stomach did? The noises would be the dead person speaking through you?" Literally, that was what Eden had come up with. She had no idea if this was right or not. |
Rowan looked around the classroom - THAT WAS NOW A GRAVEYARD HOW COOL WAS THAT - and stared at the scene before her with wide, excited eyes. "This is so cool..." she said quietly, grinning at the stuff that was happening. ... OKAY QUESTIONS What would the first step be to divining from a dead body?? "Oh, oh, Professor we learned a charm to shoot things into the air so you could use a charm that brought the body to the surface but probably less dramatic than the ascendare spell cause you have to be respectful of the dead." she said, nodding at the end of the sentence to prove her point. |
Abby thought and said "Well i would check my surrounds first and i would probably cast protective spells on myself and then i would maybe run if it is too dangerous" Abby wasn't one for sticking around for too long |
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....Zahra had no control anymore. She was wheezing from laughing so hard. MORSE CODE FARTS and losing your soul out of your butt via fart vessel and TINY PEOPLE IN YOUR BELLY making fart sounds??!??!?!?!? Zahra was gonna die herself - of laughter. Professor Cassie and Z hadn't always seen eye to eye (this one time, Professor Divi got her panties in a wad 'cause Z was "too rough with the crystal balls") but this..... this was great. This was REAL education right here. "I reckon you're late to the party, Professor. See, Professor HADLEY the muggle lady said that when you die? You poop your pants. Straight up - you just poop right on the spot after you croak. So if you were wanting to hear some bowel howl ... well.... you needed to be there when old dude died. OTHERWISE..... I got a shovel!" But mostly Zahra wanted to go back to Morse Code Farts. That was the best idea she'd heard in years. |
Ahhhh, well. WELL. That was close enough, see? And Toby still got snaps, even though the first part of his answer was wrong. He grinned at Professor Cassie, quite satisfied with the praise he had earned. Oh, okay. Now they really WERE going to find out what was meant by the 'darker' side, and Toby really did pay extra super attention now. Oh... 'cause... it had to do with dead people. That kind of made sense, yeah. At the prompting, Toby got up from his seat and moved back with everyone else, in time to see the classroom change more or less into a... a... graveyard. :mellow: No no. No thank you. Toby wasn't too sure about this. Buuuut... he wouldn't make any judgements. He'd stick with it, yes okay. Oh, oh, oH. This was like a MYSTERY. Toby had some suggestions. "How about a STETHOSCOPE?" he piped up. Boy, that was almost as hard to say as it was to spell. "That's used on bodies. Usually alive ones, though. And without six feet of earth in the way." Um. Hm. "Maybe we should go graverobbing." |
Who was that burping so loud? Henric turned to the sound and it was not surprising that it was dear old Kace.He chuckled lightly as if it was expected of him to do just that....-.-... They were told to stand up and moved to the side, so he did. Henric was amazed how the scenery slowly transformed itself by magic,of course, from a banquet hall to a now grimmer, eerie looking setting! Woah...the classroom has turned into a cemetery?! He felt goosebumps all over his arms and neck. Henric wasn't too fond of the supernatural, a nagging sense of fear occured, what if a dementor suddenly came out from nowhere and sucked the living out of him! And then he realised, he was being ridiculous...Hogwarts would never let those things in, ever! Divination studies was sure scary sometimes! Just in case, he stood a little closer behind llia, Leah and Noel, practically everyone who was near him. He listened to the answer given and couldn't help but give his two cents of thought too with the class. "Professor, perhaps a divination expert would sit with the deceased relative near their grave and did some sort of a ritual? It might be possible the relative was told not to eat anything before the ritual began, and there was no doubt their stomach growled in the process, they believed that the sound the belly makes were the voices of the dead," he answered. |
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