Norah was really a hundred thousand percent not in the mood to stop slumping, but happy happy Professor Cassie said so so it wasn't like she could just say no. Putting the super duper happy smile back on her face, she slowly got up from her chair and swallowed all the grapes she'd been eating. This was weird. Her mum had spent fourteen entire years teacher her NOT to make stomach noises, didn't Professor Cassie know?

Grin grin grin the fourth year was GRINNING until it hurt because she still had to pretend to be cheerful, remember? Except then....a cemetery? Whaaaaat? She took this as her cue to stop grinning and instead began to massage her cheeks because fake smiling was really tiring, apparently. She had no idea how the people in the adverts did it all day. She crossed her arms and watched Professor Cassie do all of her fake crying with a puzzled expression, only letting a flicker of a grin show when Zahra answered. Why'd the mopes have to pick TODAY? The day when they were talking about FARTS.

"I bet there's some sort of spell to be able to hear through stuff." She didn't exactly know what spell but there was probably a spell for everything under the sun. She'd answered though, so THERE. Could she have more grapes now?

smirking because she got snaps for her answer. She listened as so of the others gave their answers they were good but not a good as hers. At least that was what she wanted to think. She turned when she heard a burp she was sure that it would have been Bart by the way that one sounded but she wasn't even surprprised to see that it was Kace who reproduced that burp. She laughed. Hehe Bart would have totally enjoyed this class. The darker side? Yep her boy was really missing out on the lesson.

She hopped up out her seat. What in the name of Merlin was Professor Casssie going to do. She watched the Divination professor. A Cemetery the classroom was now a creepy cemetery. Cool! 1625? That was a reallly really long time ago. Sure Gastromancy was used to find out answers like that. Of course this made since.

The sixth year tilted her head at the questions that was just presented to her. They wasn't going to perform a resurrection were they? Although that would be amusing just to see the reactions of the others. Who all bought shovels? This was going to take awhile.


Was Professor Cassie pulling off her own dramatics. Bahaha this was perfect. Drama llamas were great. Not really, acting like one however was purely hilarious. But Good show Professor good show. "Stomach rummbles, because the diegestive system is still working even after you die." Answering the other question since the others were more concerned with how they were going to hear the sounds. Cinna just rolled her eyes at that Zahra girl. Really?

Okay.... this got REALLY weird, REALLY quickly.

Zeke sat there with a straight face. Just what the? WHAT THEEEEE?

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Talk about dramatics, granted, the graveyard part was cool, everything else was unnecessary. He listened as his peers responded to Professor Cassie's... ... .... whatever that all was.

That LOUD Zahra was onto something there, he liked what she was thinking and found himself nodding subconsciously. Yep yep. Dead people pooped, there was no dying with dignity, you always left the world the way you came into it. Helpless and poopy.

HOW might one hear tummy/gut/fart noises if a body was six feet under?

"You could have a listening device, like an extendable ear?" he offered, "and like, bubbly noises might indicate foul play? like... poison or something? Or if it's the sound of air passing like a whooooooossshhhh then maybe ... yeah I dunno." That's all he had, okay? That's ALL he had.

Zhenya smiled at her snaps. She loved the snaps. The darker side of Gastromancy didn't frighten her. She wanted to be a healer, and she had seen her grandparent's dead bodies, so she was okay with the whole death speak. Even if it did involve those deceased and their bowels. Giggle. But now they had to stand up, and as Zhenya was about to stand, a hand was in front of her. She smiled up at Adi, and took his hand, and found herself standing… in a cemetery! Also, BRAVO to Professor Cassie's new dress.

After listening to her speak, half way through she started to… cry? Zhenya's eyes widened as she watched Professor Cassie, then relaxed when she broke character. Of corse; duh not sirius silly! How would one hear what was happening six feet under? Well, she wasn't going to suggest digging up the casket. NO. She raised her hand, "I think one could cast an amplifying charm, but I'm not sure if it would actually penetrate six feet under into the coffin, or you'd just get worm sounds," or something. But this was also Divination, so she wasn't going to suggest the widow in the 16-00's visit the Healer or Apothecary for herbs to preventatively treat whatever disease her husband had died of. That wasn't the point!

Echo didn't really know the answer to the rest of questions. "Professor, i think it would be very difficult to hear anything from six feet down? like all the dirt and the box would not allow much noise to escape." she said but paid attention to everyone elses answers and sugguestions.

Angel looked to the Professor and raised her hand. "Professor, I would ask if you had eaten anything since your husband died, and then I would just see what I could hear, like I would say that depending on the sounds you were making yes you will have the same fate or no you won't."

Uh huh. Ethan was too busy eating his food when a question was raised by the professor. For some reason, he couldn’t multi-task at the moment. Eating was apparently more important. Besides he’s got Ravenclaws around him, and he was sure that his mates won’t run out of ideas and answers.

He did groan when they were asked to stand away from their table though. Obviously it meant taking a break from eating, yeah? Ethan did stand up though and watched the classroom turn into...a cemetery.

Okay. It was actually great that they got to eat healthy stuff, and not so healthy drinks, but the cemetery reminded him of a painful past. It didn’t help too that some of his classmates offered exhumation as an answer. At that point, Ethan backed away from his spot, and stood at the back of the group. Nothing to see here.

When Zeke agreed that he'd take her up on her offer of sharing her soda with him she grinned slightly. Popping open the can she pulled both her cup and then his towards herself more and began to pour the sweet sugar contents of the can into each one. Placing the empty can down on the table she pushed his cup towards him. "There you go." Hady replied picking up her cup and taking a sip.

Before she could do much else they were being told to stand once more. With a slight look of confusion and the hope of not having to dance again she rose to her feet, pushed her chair in and took a step backwards with a sideways glance to her bestie.

It all happened rather fast. She was on her feet, Professor Cassie was talking to them and then she was standing in a...in a...cemetery? What the...

Blinking a few times Hady looked around. Now this was pretty wicked. Cemetery's didn't bother her one bit. Smirking a little she continued to look around taking everything in including Professor Cassie's performance. However the third year snakette had no idea on the answer. Six feet down into the ground under grass, dirt, rock and whatever else and then inside a coffin was a bit much but she was sure there most likely a way to hear something that far otherwise what would be the point of this question?

Maybe it was all the food or maybe it was the fart discussion, but AJ wasn't quite following. Right before her very eyes a cemetery appeared and the professor was crying. Man, that was some excellent acting right there. The year they were supposed to be imagining was so long ago. Trying to get into character AJ pretty much just viewed that year as people wearing funny clothes and playing in dirt for fun. Granted, AJ thought playing in the dirt was pretty fun to this day.

"First, I think you would need to clear your mind and bowels." They were just discussing farts so it made perfect sense to her. "I'd give you a taco with extra hot sauce and have you relax. Whatever happens, happens." You needed to know that you were in a safe place... unless of course the spouse died of taco poisoning then whoops. "Relax your butt and let your farts free." But wait, there was more. "If your fart pattern matches your hubby's fart pattern then it was nice knowing ya." Yeah, she needed to work on her bedside manner.

Ilia's face fell when she heard an obnoxious belch come from the boy across the table. That....was.....disgusting. As she listened to the teacher and her classmates, she felt even more disgusted. How was this ANYTHING near useful to know!? She was now stuck in a room with a bunch of people that just consumed gas inducing food stuffs.....and moved around..... The belches were already starting and she was pretty sure someone had farted too. She began to wonder if the teacher didn't have a very good sense of smell. Why....just why.... would she subject them to flatulence? So far, her least favorite class absolutely. Fart jokes could kind of be funny, but not so much the fart itself or in the magnitude she foresaw coming. If the teacher was a seer, how could she NOT see that coming? Or....maybe she just didn't care or found it funny. No matter the why, Ilia was less than thrilled with the side effects going on. She was really glad she didn't move or eat much......

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She did as she was told and moved with rest, sticking close to Henric. The cheerful environment had changed, turning into a graveyard image. At least this is interesting. Her first thought, was that she wished to touch something and see if it was only an illusion or if it felt real. She would probably do that while no one was looking, just to test it out. The scenery was intriguing her at least. Her view moved all around their space, taking in the scenery and details. She noticed in this viewing, that Henric was less beside her and more behind her......was he....uncomfortable? She stepped just a little closer to him, almost protectively and gave him a small reassuring smile. Hopefully Henric wouldn't fart on her........it would be a lot harder to be comforting if he poop dusted her. Or....if the other classmates she was now thinking were a little too close , happened to have a gas attack. Please let there be no nervous butt trumpeters.

Blink.

He felt a little bit creep when Professor Cassie waved her wand and the cemetery was in front of them. But well.... never mind. It's just a cemetery, Jackson. "I'd like to say that you're good in acting, Professor." He complimented the Professor. "Were you an actress or maybe... studied about acting before?" Hehehe. Back to the discussion topic, Hwang Seunghyun!

Oh.... How to listen to the gut sounds? Clearly, he had no idea. "I dunno but... At least you didn't need to dig the grave, right? Because I heard that the dead people didn't want to be disturbed... just like we, the alive people didn't want to be bothered when we have a sleep." Okay, that sounded stupid. But, whatever.

Cassie was super eager to hear what everyone had to say. She stayed near the grave she had walked close to while listening to their discussions. Everything was so interesting, her students were always the best at thinking about things. Graveyard or not she had to give them some snaps, lucky it wasn’t a real cemetery so she wasn’t being disrespectful.

SPOILER!!: Yoongi

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

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The first person to speak up was Yoongi and Cassie gave him a nod, before a little chuckle. “Well there is no reason for any protection spells or running today. We all know this is just a charmed room, but some were afraid to be near a grave when Gastromancy was being done. They felt that evil would come out of the dead and into them. So yes if we were in 1625 you could run away. ” With so many theories and ways of doing it, it was a concept that could be easily confused.

SPOILER!!: Adi

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.

“That’s a very interesting thought, what does everyone else think? Do you believe that a person is that connected to another, that them alone could hear the sounds six feet below if the deceased was communicating?” She looked to the group, the answer was very unique and thoughtful. Ah! Kace’s burp, yes, she was glad someone brought it up. “It could very well be thought of as a warning. It would be a direct noise right out the mouth.” She wasn’t fully going to say yes or no just yet there were still many to answer. [b] “You are correct on the most fresh, but for family members that wasn’t always the case. She turned to Emmy who had asked a question.

SPOILER!!: DinosaursOnASpaship

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.

She couldn’t help but give Emmy a small understanding smile, she knew how it felt to lose a pet, “Well you are asking two very different questions. Can you do Gastromancy on an animal, yes. All living things have gas, so the gas would have to release just as humans. Can this form of divination bring back a pet to see, no. It can’t bring back an animal nor human. “ That would be a very different form of divination all together.

SPOILER!!: GoldenSnake

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.

She was so glad to hear someone give this answer, “That is a great though. Sonorus is to amplify sounds. Many know it as a way to make our voices louder, but could it work with sounds in the ground? Could it reach six feet down and bring up those sounds?” Looking to the rest of the class, did anyone have any thoughts on this?

SPOILER!!: JennMarie

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.

Looking a Gryffindor Cassie gave her a small smile. “Well a wife would be upset, but if there was answers that could be given by her dead husband she might be able to get more closure then just sitting doing nothing as she mourned.” She knew it was weird for the young to grasp when they had their entire lives ahead of them, but she hoped they could make sense of this part of the lesson.

SPOILER!!: Eden

...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

Now they were getting somewhere, the answers were falling into place nicely. “Would that really be the dead talking through ones stomach or would that just be ones stomach talking to them? This has been a debate for centuries and is the reason that Gastromancy has two very different reading forms. The first is what we are discussing right now, there are people that still do this. The other is what we will be working on in a moment. “ She checked her time, yes almost. “Now this also bring up a question that many used to say that Gastromancy was rubbish and brought on the ventriloquism thing. If people are using their own stomach noises to be the dead speaking then how is it really known that it is the dead and not just hem making it up?” She again looked at the class for answers.

SPOILER!!: Rowan

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.

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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.

Her eyes turned on another student as they spoke, “Very good, we could probably use that, but is that respecting the dead forcing it’s body to the surface? We have to remember back in the 1600’s their thoughts and beliefs were different than ours in the sense that we have learned over the years many different things. So pulling a person from their grave would be evil at hand.” Were they seeing where some of the very conservative style wizards thought of Gastromancy as dark magic yet?

SPOILER!!: Abby

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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Looking to Abby Cassie couldn’t help but tilt her head. “Well there isn’t anything to be afraid of in a cemetery, so unless you really feel threatened I don’t think that is all needed. Just as I said to someone earlier we know this isn’t a real cemetery either so no need to do that today either. “

SPOILER!!: Zhara

....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.

Late for a party? She turned to Zhara a bit confused before laughing. “Oh goodness, I think I missed that lesson. Though I’m okay being late to that party. I really don’t wish to see someone poop at the end of their life again.” No she was there when her grandfather had died, it wasn’t something she cared to witness ever or wished them to witness. “No need for a shovel Zhara, we can get our answers without digging and getting our shoes dirty.” She had cute ones on today, really no need to mess them up.

SPOILER!!: Toby

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. 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."
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Her smile grew at Toby’s words. Had they all been looking at her lesson plans? “Yes muggles use this to listen to one’s heart, but it could be used to hear other sounds as well. Though six feet under it might be hard to hear anything through it.” She was certain muggles didn’t have the means for something that strong. “Oh no, no that’s okay, we don’t need to grave rob. I will not have any of you getting arrested for a lesson.” She could easily have gotten a body, but that wasn’t needed today.

SPOILER!!: Henric

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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Nodding her head as Henric answered she looked back towards Eden, “Now you two have said something very similar, but yet a little different. Eden mentioned eating and you not to eat. Which do you think would give a better reading? The gasses of a full stomach or empty? Again the question is brought up is that a true reading on the dead person if it is your own stomach noises? It was a process that was done, but as Gastromancy grew and was researched, more and more said that the noises of your own stomach was a reading for you, so with reading a dead persons it could be a reading to help the living based on the death of that person.” So disease that might stick around or an unfortunate accident that could be prevented.

SPOILER!!: Norah

Norah was really a hundred thousand percent not in the mood to stop slumping, but happy happy Professor Cassie said so so it wasn't like she could just say no. Putting the super duper happy smile back on her face, she slowly got up from her chair and swallowed all the grapes she'd been eating. This was weird. Her mum had spent fourteen entire years teacher her NOT to make stomach noises, didn't Professor Cassie know?

Grin grin grin the fourth year was GRINNING until it hurt because she still had to pretend to be cheerful, remember? Except then....a cemetery? Whaaaaat? She took this as her cue to stop grinning and instead began to massage her cheeks because fake smiling was really tiring, apparently. She had no idea how the people in the adverts did it all day. She crossed her arms and watched Professor Cassie do all of her fake crying with a puzzled expression, only letting a flicker of a grin show when Zahraanswered. Why'd the mopes have to pick TODAY? The day when they were talking about FARTS.

"I bet there's some sort of spell to be able to hear through stuff." She didn't exactly know what spell but there was probably a spell for everything under the sun. She'd answered though, so THERE. Could she have more grapes now?

“There are spells to hear through things and amplify, such as your classmate mentioned earlier. The question I’m giving is would it work that far away? Do you think anything in the ground could interfere with a true reading?” She gave Norah an encouraging smile, she liked pushing their minds a bit further. This was fun!

SPOILER!!: Cinnamon

smirking because she got snaps for her answer. She listened as so of the others gave their answers they were good but not a good as hers. At least that was what she wanted to think. She turned when she heard a burp she was sure that it would have been Bart by the way that one sounded but she wasn't even surprprised to see that it was Kace who reproduced that burp. She laughed. Hehe Bart would have totally enjoyed this class. The darker side? Yep her boy was really missing out on the lesson.

She hopped up out her seat. What in the name of Merlin was Professor Casssie going to do. She watched the Divination professor. A Cemetery the classroom was now a creepy cemetery. Cool! 1625? That was a reallly really long time ago. Sure Gastromancy was used to find out answers like that. Of course this made since.

The sixth year tilted her head at the questions that was just presented to her. They wasn't going to perform a resurrection were they? Although that would be amusing just to see the reactions of the others. Who all bought shovels? This was going to take awhile.


Was Professor Cassie pulling off her own dramatics. Bahaha this was perfect. Drama llamas were great. Not really, acting like one however was purely hilarious. But Good show Professor good show. "Stomach rummbles, because the diegestive system is still working even after you die." Answering the other question since the others were more concerned with how they were going to hear the sounds. Cinna just rolled her eyes at that Zahra girl. Really?

Giving Cinnamon a nod, “Yes the body does keep digesting and like Zahra pointed out, the closest things to leave such as bowl movements happen right as the person passed, but stomach gasses are still there and will be there days after. “ Which makes for an easy reading usually.

SPOILER!!: Zeke

Okay.... this got REALLY weird, REALLY quickly.

Zeke sat there with a straight face. Just what the? WHAT THEEEEE?

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Talk about dramatics, granted, the graveyard part was cool, everything else was unnecessary. He listened as his peers responded to Professor Cassie's... ... .... whatever that all was.

That LOUD Zahra was onto something there, he liked what she was thinking and found himself nodding subconsciously. Yep yep. Dead people pooped, there was no dying with dignity, you always left the world the way you came into it. Helpless and poopy.

HOW might one hear tummy/gut/fart noises if a body was six feet under?

"You could have a listening device, like an extendable ear?" he offered, "and like, bubbly noises might indicate foul play? like... poison or something? Or if it's the sound of air passing like a whooooooossshhhh then maybe ... yeah I dunno." That's all he had, okay? That's ALL he had.
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Extendable ear, now that was something she didn’t even think of. “Would you want to dig a small hole to place it down? That might actually work, though I’m wondering if other sounds would interfere and what if dirt got too close.” Just questions out loud really as she thought about the idea. “Very good Zeke, possibly bubbly noises could indicate foul play, especially from poison. Some might have even interpreted it as a curse within.” It was the 1600’s and all. “Could the whoosh be something trying to leave or escape?” Just a thought for everyone.

SPOILER!!: Zhenya

Zhenya smiled at her snaps. She loved the snaps. The darker side of Gastromancy didn't frighten her. She wanted to be a healer, and she had seen her grandparent's dead bodies, so she was okay with the whole death speak. Even if it did involve those deceased and their bowels. Giggle. But now they had to stand up, and as Zhenya was about to stand, a hand was in front of her. She smiled up at Adi, and took his hand, and found herself standing… in a cemetery! Also, BRAVO to Professor Cassie's new dress.

After listening to her speak, half way through she started to… cry? Zhenya's eyes widened as she watched Professor Cassie, then relaxed when she broke character. Of corse; duh not sirius silly! How would one hear what was happening six feet under? Well, she wasn't going to suggest digging up the casket. NO. She raised her hand, "I think one could cast an amplifying charm, but I'm not sure if it would actually penetrate six feet under into the coffin, or you'd just get worm sounds," or something. But this was also Divination, so she wasn't going to suggest the widow in the 16-00's visit the Healer or Apothecary for herbs to preventatively treat whatever disease her husband had died of. That wasn't the point!

Smile grew hearing Zhenya, “Yes, sonorus would be the amplifying charm we could use as Nat mentioned. Though you do bring up a great point. Would we only hear worms?” This was an interesting thought for everyone. Where they getting how complicated and diverse this form of divination was.

SPOILER!!: Echo

Echo didn't really know the answer to the rest of questions. "Professor, i think it would be very difficult to hear anything from six feet down? like all the dirt and the box would not allow much noise to escape." she said but paid attention to everyone elses answers and sugguestions.

Turning to Echo she nodded, “Many people would agree with you and they use that same questioning to write many articles against this form, specifically the form as it’s used on the dead.” Did she agree with those people, not particularly. “To a trained person you can tell the difference in sounds, it makes it a bit easier to figure out.”

SPOILER!!: Angel

Angel looked to the Professor and raised her hand. "Professor, I would ask if you had eaten anything since your husband died, and then I would just see what I could hear, like I would say that depending on the sounds you were making yes you will have the same fate or no you won't."

“That’s very interesting Angel and would work if you were doing a reading on the widow, but if you were trying to get the answers about her dead husband, you would need to be doing the reading on the dead husband.” She didn’t want anyone confused to exactly how the reading was, but whoops she might have just given away some of the answers to what she had asked.

SPOILER!!: Aj

Maybe it was all the food or maybe it was the fart discussion, but AJ wasn't quite following. Right before her very eyes a cemetery appeared and the professor was crying. Man, that was some excellent acting right there. The year they were supposed to be imagining was so long ago. Trying to get into character AJ pretty much just viewed that year as people wearing funny clothes and playing in dirt for fun. Granted, AJ thought playing in the dirt was pretty fun to this day.

"First, I think you would need to clear your mind and bowels." They were just discussing farts so it made perfect sense to her. "I'd give you a taco with extra hot sauce and have you relax. Whatever happens, happens." You needed to know that you were in a safe place... unless of course the spouse died of taco poisoning then whoops. "Relax your butt and let your farts free." But wait, there was more. "If your fart pattern matches your hubby's fart pattern then it was nice knowing ya." Yeah, she needed to work on her bedside manner.

Cassie’s eyes went wide with the bowels talk. Goodness, okay, she had seen this type of thing coming. Her shoulders shook a bit with a giggle at the taco comment too. Where to begin, first she looked around. Did anyone else want to take this one? No? Okay, “Well I’m not sure clearing your bowels will help with a reading and bodily noises are so much more than just farting. Farting and even burping are the main things we do think about as those are the sounds we hear, but think about your own bodies all day long you have gas moving around it. The frequency is different for everyone and can be more or less depending on what you have eaten, but every living person has gas inside them moving around even if we can’t hear it.” With the fart pattern to determine she decided to leave that comment for someone else or because she might have accidentally answered the reading stuff before.

SPOILER!!: RandomRaven

Blink.

He felt a little bit creep when Professor Cassie waved her wand and the cemetery was in front of them. But well.... never mind. It's just a cemetery, Jackson. "I'd like to say that you're good in acting, Professor." He complimented the Professor. "Were you an actress or maybe... studied about acting before?" Hehehe. Back to the discussion topic, Hwang Seunghyun!

Oh.... How to listen to the gut sounds? Clearly, he had no idea. "I dunno but... At least you didn't need to dig the grave, right? Because I heard that the dead people didn't want to be disturbed... just like we, the alive people didn't want to be bothered when we have a sleep." Okay, that sounded stupid. But, whatever.

Cassie couldn’t help but blush a bit, “Why thank you Jackson. I was not, but our very own Professor Glendower has taught me everything I know. If you like performances and things History of Magic will be the place for you this term.” Her best friend was awesome and she did enjoy boasting about her. Yes, but back to the lesson at hand. “Exactly, people do not wish to disturb the graves, well most people. It is a big form of disrespect.” That was a form of divination she would not teach or discuss, using the dead to do your bidding, no thank you.

The class discussion was going well, many good points. Checking her watch the exact moment wasn’t there yet so she could continue, perfect. “So everyone brought up so great points and I want us to continue this discussion, but I wanted to touch on one thing as well. I’ve mentioned a few times that Gastromancy has different forms, what started as trying to find omens or information from the dead turned into readings on one’s self. These are two different processes but called the same thing. If we were really at a grave and would like to use it, we would be needing to amplify the ground. The trained ear will know the difference between the gas noises and worms moving around. What I’d like you to do as we continue to talk is move to a grave and practice the sonorous charm, because we will be using this in just a moment for something else.” That should couldn’t wait to do, but first practice. “Now when you do this, all you need to do is stand over the grave and direct your wand to the ground while saying the incantation.” She did this to show an example. “Go ahead and get started and please feel free to continue with the discussions as well.” She was hoping they wouldn’t stop just because they were practicing.


I'll post again moving on in or around 24 hours of this post, so feel free to practice and continue discussing. I set up my post this way so you could read everything that I commented on. Cassie wanted more of a discussion and interaction with students talking to each other as well as her, so I've put all the information throughout everyone's stuff to make it more interactive

Kace heard Professor Cassie comment on his burp. He grinned sheepishly and he was glad she wasn't offended. I mean he was happy to show people the sound of burping. Maybe he shouldn't have eaten too much? Aahh well he was growing boy he could do what he wanted. He wanted to know more about the sounds and such. He couldn't wait for her to talk about that. Then he saw the picture of a cemetery and he backed away from his desk as requested. He heard her questions and it got Kace thinking. He wrote down the first one and then he began to answer it.

"Professor I think people would be able to hear the sounds from six feet down because if it is a loved one, I mean you share a connection with someone. I mean for all I know it could be their soul mate. Sometimes if you have a soulmate you have a great bond with someone." As for the different noises, he didn't know what other sounds he could hear besides stomach gurgling. He skipped that one. As for the steps, he was stumped. I mean shouldn't she be teaching them what to do? He thought about it and suggested some steps.

He looked around and saw Emmy was there. He walked over to her and asked her what she would do. "Hey Emms..." he greeted her with the assignment. But as he was gonna ask her, he heard her answer and he went with her assumption. Now Professor Cassie moved on and he really had no idea what the steps were. They needed to practice the sonorous charm? Hmm interesting idea Professor Cassie. Interesting idea. He looked at Emmy and asked, "You ready to practice the spell?"

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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. 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."

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?!

Did Zahra's Gryffindor ears just hear TOBY PUFF suggest they ROB GRAVES? Bahahaha! Brilliant. She pointed to her head so Tobes could see, the message being : WE WILL NEED OUR HELMETS FOR THAT.

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Maybe it was all the food or maybe it was the fart discussion, but AJ wasn't quite following. Right before her very eyes a cemetery appeared and the professor was crying. Man, that was some excellent acting right there. The year they were supposed to be imagining was so long ago. Trying to get into character AJ pretty much just viewed that year as people wearing funny clothes and playing in dirt for fun. Granted, AJ thought playing in the dirt was pretty fun to this day.

"First, I think you would need to clear your mind and bowels." They were just discussing farts so it made perfect sense to her. "I'd give you a taco with extra hot sauce and have you relax. Whatever happens, happens." You needed to know that you were in a safe place... unless of course the spouse died of taco poisoning then whoops. "Relax your butt and let your farts free." But wait, there was more. "If your fart pattern matches your hubby's fart pattern then it was nice knowing ya." Yeah, she needed to work on her bedside manner.

....hahahahaha THIS KID THOUGH. Zahra laughed and laughed again. She REALLY lost it as the step by step instructions, including to "RELAX YOUR BUTT."

Hilarious. Gryffindors win.

Anywho..... now they were supposed to listen to ancient farts. So basically that meant, since Zahra just wasn't all that great with her wand, she was going to wander around and speculate for a while. "I bet ancient dead people farts could kill you. Like, legit, you just die at the smell on the spot. Then it starts this cycle. Though, I gotta be real, sometimes Mikey Toussaint can fart like an ancient zombie. Like burns your nose hairs." She meandered through the nearby graves, patted the stones, and otherwise tried to look busy.

Zander was about to step up and actually contribute to conversation, until AJ happened. To which he just... Whut. Relax your butts? Uh. Again, whut? Zander just sort of stared. Not at AJ, but at Zahra who of course heard the word "fart" and instantly felt at home with the conversation. Super typical. You'd think seventh year would make a person more mature, right? Being of age or being about of age. Going off into the real world in less than a year. Six whole years of hogwarts education under your belt with only one more to go. You'd THINK that farts would be less of an intriguing subject.

But of course, not for Zahra Kettleburn. Was Zander surprised? Merlin, no. This was Zahra Kettleburn they were talking about here. She brought an actual trumpet to the welcome feast. Practically went on an entire 'toots' rant to Professor Domingo back in third year. Never surprised. Only disgusted.

After giving her a ???? kind of stare for a few good seconds, he took it as time to go find a proper grave to stand on. Yup. This was a weird lesson.

Rowans eyes were wide as she listened to everything, and she was itching to take notes on every single thing that was being said, but she knew that even if this was a more note-take-y class she wouldn't be able to keep up, so her eyes just followed the discussion around the room, pausing occasionally to try and think up a reply, but coming up short.

It was fascinating, really! Rusty was really excited to learn new divination things, but it was just a lot for her little brain to handle. She was used to the same twelve people in her classes, most of them helping her out when she got stuck, and the teaching being taught at a pace that they could all easily keep up with... and even though she loved it here, it was kinda crazy trying to keep up with anything when there were so many people here... and this week had kinda worn her out. Maybe she should just try some yoga later and see if that helped...

BACK TO THE CLASS, ROWAN... she'd never get anything done if she kept getting distracted.

..."What's the sonorous charm?" she asked, addressing the question to nobody in particular. She'd never heard of it before, and if someone had mentioned it earlier it'd zoomed in one ear and out the other whilst her brain tried its best to cling to bits of information. Also what did she have to say to get it to work? Maybe it was just the same as the name of the spell, but she wasn't always sure...

Goodness she was going to need a cleanse or something after today.

Part of their activity was to listen to actual sounds in the stomachs of corpses under the graves? Uhhh... Natalia couldn't decide what was more terrifying: the thought of leaning close to the graves or hearing the uncanny sounds of the stomach... if Nat would be skilled enough to detect it at all.

"Umm...Professor?" An unsettling question was spiraling in her mind. "Are these...real graves?" Hopefully these were just realistic imitations of what a real cemetery would look and feel like, which would make the most sense, because the entire classroom couldn't have just apparated to a different location, right? But then again, no one could be certain of the full extent of magic.

Reluctantly, Natalia strolled to the nearest grave in a sideways manner, as if she was afraid to encounter some sort of apparition if she walked face forward. The fourth year Lioness dropped to her knees gingerly, feeling the soft green grass under her palms. Uncertain what to do next, Natalia slowly bent her back and positioned left ear (her good year) toward the ground. Was this what she was suppose to do? Yes, or how else would she be able to hear the gastric noises?

At first, Natalia detected no evident sound. It was time to pull out her wand and use that sound-amplifying spell! Being in a rather uncomfortable position, Natalia twisted her arm to reach into her back pocket (not a very safe place to store wands, but whatever) to grabbed out her wand. Pointing the wand tip directly toward the ground, she muttered: "Sonorus!"

.....

Natalia could hear absolutely nothing. Not even worms.

"Sonorus!" Applying the charm again did not help to amplify the sound either.

Echo had no idea what she was doing? Why wasn't she paying attention for like a minute.. what spell were they supposed to be doing? Looking around in panic she hoped that an older student would notice her scared face and come over and offer some help, because she needed it like crazy..

please please please, someone come help me she thought while scanning the room, maybe she had to go up to someone and ask for help.

Zhenya happily thought about that. Her own question… she didn't know what worms and other bugs or whatever was down there sounded like… perhaps she would soon find out?



Zhenya was just about to say the incantation when she heard someone ask what the charm was, and saw someone look a bit… worried. Zhenya walked over to them both and said "The incantation for the amplifying charm is Sonorus. Said soh-NOHR-us. And just direct your wand at the target." She gave a friendly smile, hopefully letting them know they could ask more questions if they wanted.

Then she pointed her own wand down and said "Sonorus," aiming down at the grave.

Sweeping her gaze over each 'grave' Hady shuffled from foot to foot as she listened to Professor Cassie and everyone else. Once the days activity was being explained she was more then ready to get started. It didn't really seem all that hard. A simple spell word and a point of her wand. Of course intent and such was needed but that was a given already.

The moment they were told to pick a grave and get started the small brunette headed for the closest one. Flicking her wrist lightly sent her wand into her hand where she grasped it gently. Pointing her wand downward at the grave she gave the incantation with as much intent as she could manage right then, "Sonorus!"

And nothing. She heard absolutely nothing.

No worms, bugs... or other odd noises.

Ooookay then. She'd kind of been half right. Norah nodded slowly and shrugged in response to Professor Cassie's clarifications, figuring the questions were for the whole class and not just her. It'd be dumb to ask HER a question, 'cause apparently she didn't know much of anything. Sigh sigh sigh. This was REALLY no fun at all.

She went to stand on a grave, pulling her wand out from behind her ear where she'd stored it for safekeeping. Was she standing on top of a person? It didn't seem like a very nice thing to do even if whomever was down there wasn't even alive, but Professor Cassie said so and Professors were the bosses. Before opening her mouth to cast the spell, she looked up and put a ginormous smile on her face 'cause she remembered that was something she was supposed to have been doing this whole entire time. Alright. Now that that was taken care of, she pointed her wand at whatever was under her feet and said "Sonorus." Anything? Anythiiiiing? She turned her manic grin down to the ground and listened as hard as she could, but the ground didn't seem very talkative today. Hwo convenient.

Noooobody? Noooooooooooooooooobody for graverobbing?

ALTHOUGH, Toby totally caught that unspoken message from Zahra. He gave her a DOUBLE THUMBS UP and then patted his own head. HELMETS. YES. Leggo. Orrrr not, as Professor Cassie reassured Toby that the robbing of graves really legit wouldn't be necessary.

GOOD, 'cause it was actually kind of rude, but y'know, it COULD have been what they were meant to do. Hogwarts classes were always full of such surprises. It had, really, been a joke suggestion, some humour and silliness to death with the VERY HEAVY TOPIC OF DEATH OKAY.

Hm. Perhaps Toby had had too much sugary SOOOODAAAAA, because he kind of WAS getting very bouncy and ridiculous, which seemed sooooo out of place in the middle of a GRAVEYARD. He tried to keep a lid on it, to not go overboard and suggest anymore ridiculous things that some people might take seriously, and wandered off to find himself a... a...

Grave

Okay. Well. Thinking about it, this was weird. Not something he expected to be doing when he woke up this morning, but #yolo.

... Oh, or... um. Okay, not #yolo. Bad choice of hashtag.

"Sonorus!" Toby said at last, having pulled himself away from his distracted thoughts with some difficulty. HE WAS HERE. HE WAS IN THE ROOM. Okay okay okay.

Soooooo... had it worrrrked?

... "Would a stethoscope work now?" It might, if the charms had worked, yes? "Maybe if we souped one up?" Basically Toby just wanted to play with a stethoscope. He'd pretend he was being a Muggle doctor rather than trying to listen in on the flatulence and gurglings of a corpse.

Kace saw Emmy was dazing and he thought he could handle doing the spell on his own. He saw Echo asking for help but a fellow slytherin was helping her with the deed. So he needed to point his wand at the grave and say the spell? Hmmm...that was something he never done before. I mean that was frankly weird to him but if Professor Cassie said so. I mean he had to do it right? He got his wand from his robe and prepared it. He knew the charm because he heard it before. It was Sonorus. There we go Lecium got this.

He pointed his wand at the grave and said, "SONORUS!" and then he felt it being casted, but he didn't hear anything. Was he not supposed to hear anything. He looked around the room and gave it a quizzical look. He looked at Professor Cassie and waited for my instructions. I mean he thought his spell worked. It had to.

It was Zhenya to the rescue yet again. Seeing and hearing her coming over to help was great. "sor-NOHR-us" she giggled, it seemed like such a silly spell. "it doesn't sound too hard, and all i have to do is point at my target?" it sounded really easy... but thank goodness she had the older snake to help her.

*gulp* "im not good with the grave thing...." her eyes shifted "do you think theres...... theres.......... anyone ... like... in there?" she really hoped there wasn't.

Her hand shaking she pointed her shakey wand at the grave and said "Sonoris" and she didn't think anything happened... and she realized what it was, she was so nervous for the grave she didn't say the spell right... her brain couldn't really function to much right now.

Eden nodded and listened to Professor Morgan as she spoke. Cool. Cool cool, man.

And now they were...they were casting a SOUND charm on a tomb? That was just creepy to Eden. Fun, a little EXCITING, but also extremely creepy. Wasn't this a fake cemetery?! She did think about what Professor Morgan had to say, though, and tried not to talk about FARTS like most of the people in here were doing. That just wasn't classroom ACCEPTABLE was it? And not pushing the class forward in a positive way...just..ehh.

She stood at the base of the one of the graves and pointed her wand. "Sonorus!" she cried, and the spell shot from the tip of her wand. It was an easy enough spell.

"I think...that if the sound was coming from the graves....then it wouldn't seem like the people were making it up? And maybe...I don't know. Stomach noises somehow connected to GRAVE noises...so that the person wouldn't just be able to claim to have some sort of....ghostly stomach interaction." Were her thoughts making sense? Most likely now.