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Wasn’t it just precious? She watched Bob chase his ball and couldn’t help but giggle and snap. “Turtles are just fun creatures aren’t they?” Seriously though she could watch this turtle chase his ball all day, but they had a lesson to continue with.

SPOILER!!: answers

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Originally Posted by Jessiqua

Zhenya just had to let out a giggle watching Bob chasing his ball. He was cute and it was funny watching something so small chasing around something so big.

Zhenya hadn't really thought of how she could use the shell of the turtle to perform divination, but apparently it was a method. But she had heard something, using some bone or something or rather to read but she had no idea what specifically it read. Raising her hand she said "Professor there's something to do with Scapul... scapula-imancy or something like that. People read the bones of dead animals, but obviously a turtle can be alive with its shell and all its designs on the shell intact." Thank Merlin it was a turtle and not an innocent animal they would have to do unthinkable things to.
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Cassie looked to the first person to answer the question and gave her snaps, “Very good guess Zhenya, Scapulimancy is the reading of shoulder blades and yes they need to be dead animals because of the fire, but this will not be what we are doing today.” She didn’t want to say quite yet that the turtles were not living to do the reading, so she’d leave that for a moment or so later.

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

Kace had no idea that they could teach a turtle how to play with a ball. I mean turtles were animals too they could do whatever they wanted. He would try to get his cousins turtle to do this eventually. He chuckled at the idea and now onto the question at hand. He had NOOO idea what the form was called. I guess maybe it had the word shell in it? He shrugged and listened to the Slytherins answers. Oh right it was Zhenya, she seemed to be knowing what she was talking about. "Professor I am gonna agree with Zhenya here and go with scapulaimancy. It sounds pretty legit to me." He was just backing up the girls answer to make her feel more confident is all.
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Turning her eyes towards Kace, Cassie gave him a nod and some snaps, [b] “Well that’s a great thought Kace, but just as I said to Zheyna that is the study of shoulder blades and is not the form we will be using for our lesson today.

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Oh, right! Adi had really forgotten about turtles being swimmers too! He nodded happily at Professor Cassie, totally missing his snaps. But then again she was holding the turtle... which couldn't be petted or patted or snugged or anything. Maybe it was a good thing. The poor thing would probably get tired of everyone.

The Hufflepuff's eyes followed Bob and his ball as he listened to Cassie. Mutant? Like the Ninja turtles? Hehe. Wouldn't it be SO darn awesome if Bob was one of those? Then it could teach the class ninja moves! HIIIIIIYA!

With his eyes still fixed on Bob, Adi raised his hand. "I'm not sure of what the method is called but is it possible the correct method reading is done by the seeker asking a question then fixating on one of the designs or pattern on the turtle's shell to do a reading to get answers to his or her question?'' And could they just watch Bob and his ball for this lesson? The turtle was so fascinating and amusing!

She was so glad everyone was enjoying Bob’s trick, it was so fun to watch. Turning to Adi as he answered with his own thoughts, she gave him snaps. [b] “A reading is done by a Diviner, but it doesn’t have to be a seer. Back when it first originated people probably looked only ones with a special gift instead of Diviners who studied just like yourselves.

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

Eden smiled a little. "I'm good, Professor," she said simply. Heh. Today was going to be a good. This would be a good class, she just KNEW it. She had the VIBES for it....and when Professor Morgan read her snap cup entry, Eden beamed.

BEAMED.

THAT WAS HERS! SHE WAS ALL CAUGHT UP ON HOMEWORK. HEHEHE. It made her happy and she snapped for herself because Eden McGee deserved snaps for herself sometimes, gosh darn it!

TURTLE!!!! Omg. Eden almost died right on the spot. SHE KNEW A THING OR TWO ABOUT TURTLES! REPTILES, YEAH! She was going to raise her hand and say ALL KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT TURTLES--like how turtles didn't deal with the cold well, and that Europe only had TWO kinds of turtles, really--and that--

Oh she could have gone on. She could have. She loved turtles. Snakes, more, but turtles were cool, too. But she was so focused on which facts she should say...when...

They moved on.

It was such a pity, Eden frowned SLIGHTLY but then....just relaxed. Because they were talking about Divination turtle things. Eden didn't think this was the answer Morgan was looking for, but she raised her hand and cleared her throat. "Well..I know some people used to use them in oracle bone readings..."

Looking to Eden, Cassie gave a huge grin and snapped her fingers. “Wonderful knowledge Eden, it is Oracle bone readings. Very good.” She had some of the brightest minds in her class she was always so proud of them.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel had no idea what this form of divination would be called and so she decide that she would have a guess, she raised her hand and looked at the Professor. "I'm not sure if this is right but isn't it something like Oracle bones, and you have to clean the shell of meet and other stuff so that you just have the shell, otherwise the reading might be wrong." Angel smiled as she stopped there she hoped that this was right.

Giving snaps to Angel she nodded, “Very good it is Oracle Bones and yes it is better to have a clean shell then a dirty one. There are a few rules to what type of shells and we will get to that in a second.” No need to rush the information too much.

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Originally Posted by Mordred

Ethan gave Bob the turtle a finger wiggle as soon as the pet and Professor Cassie passed by. Merlin, such judgemental turtle he was. Did anyone take not of its face? And speaking of face reading…he came across this kind of Divination when he was researching about Physiognomy! Professor Cassie dropped a clue, saying that the form of divination that they will be learning today was one of the oldest recorded form of divination. That being said, the Chinese were the first to practice it, same with Physiognomy!

But what was it called??? Zhenya had mentioned Scapulamancy… “No…no it’s not Scapulamancy…that one uses an ox’s scapular bone…” he muttered to himself as he fished out his notes, and flipped through his research on Physiognomy. He knew he wrote it somewhere…

China…Turtles…aha!

Ethan raised his hand with his notes covering his face. “Uh…it’s Plastermancy…? No…not plaster. Merlin, I can’t even read my own handwriting. Er…Plas…Plastromancy. Yes. Plastromancy because…the Chinese people used a turtle’s plastron…or its underside for it?” Whoops. Nerd alert! But whoa wait. They are not going to do the reading on Bob right? Because…well…ugh. Never mind.

Ethan placed his hand down, feeling his face go warm. He’s not used to giving such precise answers. Well, he can’t be blamed though. He’s on a mission to master a certain form of reading, so it was just natural to come across another form of Divination, especially if it came from the same provenance. Turtle-underside reading happens to be one of them.
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She couldn’t help but blink and then grin at Ethan. Her pride for the boy wasn’t showing at all, nope not at all by the huge grin on her face and the snaps that were going. “Very good Detective Ethan. You hit it right on the head. The form we will be using today is Plastromancy and it is the underside of the shell.” She gave him a few more snaps before moving on the next person.

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Originally Posted by slytherinSistah

Look at it.

It was...taking on the ball. Was it some sort of natural instinct or did the turtle really realize it was locked into a game. A game he could not possibly hope to win. For the ball would never tire. Nature knew what it was doing when it brought balls and turtles together for only a turtle was a match for a ball, able to age at about the same rate. Locked in a battle of time.

Maybe that was just it. Turtles being a symbol for time and thus being thought of as being privy to the past as well as the present in some society somewhere when people were first recorded using the animals for divinatory purposes. Cutty put his hand up to offer an answer he knew couldn't possibly be right. "TURTURMANCY!!!" He laughed a bit at the way that sounded. Then considered naming his first born son Turturmancy if for no other reason the joy of calling him in for dinner, cause of course he'd be out in the streets running amok and learning things. "I think you'd probably read a shell by looking looking at the patterns on the bach. All the little..." his finger created many mini air circles. "Swehrls and dark bits."

Could Cutty Mordaunt just created a new form of Divination? Cassie looked at Bob the box turtle for a moment thinking about his words and about how the turtle could be used in other ways. Her mind moving around in all the forms she had been trained on. Would it be possible? That was such a cool name for one either way. He got snaps for creativity, [b] “As much as I love the name you have just given that is not a form of Divination or one we will use today. We look at their shells but in just a bit different way.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer`11

Janelle started writing as soon as the first student began to speak. She wanted to write down all the information she could about turtles. Never knew when that info might come in handy. The writing continued as Professor Cassie talked about turtles as pets. Janelle had a friend once who had a pet turtle and he was kinda fun to watch.

Not as much fun as Bob the turtle though. This animal did tricks. Janelle had to hold back a laugh when Bob began to chase the ball. Now that was something you didn't see every day. Then a question. Janelle wasn't sure of the answer, but she decided to give it a shot. She raised her hand tentatively and started to speak.

"I think you might read a turtle's shell by looking at the patterns in it. Maybe where the lines are means something specific." As for the particular form of Divination, Janelle had no idea.

Giving Janelle snaps for her thoughts Cassie grinned, “So many of you think it is the patterns of their shells, which is a great answer. They have so many different patterns that it could very well be a way of predicting something, but the way we are going to do it today is something a little different.’

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

So they WERE going to read a turtle to tell the future. Huh. Divination just got stranger and stranger by the minute. It really was a wonder why he stayed in this class after OWL level. Merlin. But how the heck was he supposed to know what turtle reading was called? The Gryffindor listened to answers some of the others gave and furrowed his brows together in deep though because what the absolute HUH was an oracle bone? No, no those answers made absolutely no sense.

For the first time in history, Cutty Mordaunt's answer made the most sense out of anyone's. Something must be going wrong with the world.

After a few more seconds of thinking and doodling on his parchment, the Gryffindor slowly raised his hand. "Is it called, uh, Turtle-Shell-Oh-mancy?"It was like a rule. All the forms of divination ended with --Omancy, so really his guess was just as good as anyone else's.

Had she thought about how awesome creative answers were? Well she thought that Zander’s was just as great as Cutty’s and he got snaps. “I think you and Cutty could really put your heads together and come up with some great inventions with your creative thoughts. As fun as that name is that is not what we will be using today.”

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

Awww man. AJ was completely bummed out about not being able to hold Bob. She was pretty sure the turtle would love her. AJ had that way with animals. Maybe professor Morgan was a greedy turtle owner. Actually, she could understand that because she wouldn't be letting just anybody touch her unicorns... you know, when she got them. A ball!!! Was he going to keep his balance on it? She was even more intrigued than she was earlier.

Zander got a snort. Yes, he did. "I agree with Zander." His made the most sense in her mind. It sounded like something Divination would use as a name. The lion prefect had her vote. "I think maybe we could do the readings based off of how soft or rigid the markings on his shell is?" Maybe as an add on to them using the markings as readings.

Looking to Aj, Cassie gave her snaps for her answer, “You would think that would be something to go off of, but for today it won’t be what we read. Great thoughts though.” She was very proud of her students thought process.

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Originally Posted by Nanyjj

Leah smiled at Jackson as he joined her at her lab table. He was really quiet though, which made her wonder if there was anything wrong. The lesson was beginning though, which only gave her enough time to return Norah's wave before she turned her attention to Professor Cassie.

She laughed out loud, watching Bob the box turtle chase his exercise ball. He must be the CUTEST thing that ever set foot on this Tower. Anyway, back to the discussion.

There was this question again, guessing the name of the Divination form. As Leah had no idea what it was called, she listened to her friends' replies. "I think I agree with Cutty's answer," she said DEAD SERIOUSLY. Well, it made the most sense, riiight? Zander's seemed right too but Turturmancy sounded better. As for HOW to read a shell, she honestly remembered reading it in her textbook. It was just that she did not understand a word of what it was talking about.

The Fifth Year opened her journal and took notes on what her classmates were contributing, except the bits that just sounded wrong.

“If I didn’t know exactly what we were doing today I’d say I’d agree with Cutty as well. It was a very thought out answer, but unfortunately it isn’t what we are using today.” She did though give Leah snaps for answering.

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Originally Posted by Felixir

Toby wanted to hug the turtle. He really really did. Did they like hugs, orrrr...? They didn't seem cuddly but then even the non-cuddly things in life would probably appreciate hugs, just nobody ever wanted to provide them. That was kinda sad. But then what if they DIDN'T want hugs, and they were just non-hugging things, so that was why they LOOKED like they weren't very huggable. Huh.

It was a good minute or two before Toby realised his thoughts had gone very very much off track, what with thinking about turtles and hugs and all of the things, and by the time he'd tuned back in everyone else was providing answers to the questions he'd missed. But he could sort of guess what the questions had been by the sort of responses coming from everyone else.

"Turtolomancy, maybe," he provided, hand raised, because people were providing what sounded like probable titles for turtle divining. And it ALSO sounded like she'd asked about... the methods? "And I dunno how to do it. But I bet it has something to do with whatever these are." Toby lowered his hand again and used it to pokepokepoke at the vials in the middle of the desk, looking at the professor expectantly for either denial or confirmation.

Looking to Toby Cassie grinned, it seemed they had another great thinker in the room. He got snaps for his answer, "I do enjoy these educated guesses. They are wonderful, but that is not the form we will be doing today. Very good try though." She couldn't help but grin at his eager hints to use the vials, "We will be using those in just a moment and yes they are part of the lesson today." That was all she was giving for now though.

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Originally Posted by RandomRaven

Jackson was quite distracted watching the turtle chasing the ball. Hehehe. He always found creatures were adorable. But then Professor Cassie asked another question.

Using the shell of turtle as the form of divination?

He'd never heard about that before, though himself came from one of the countries in East Asia but... Hey! He's from Seoul, South Korea and there are some countries there like... China! Okay, maybe it originally came from China. And he didn't have any idea about what it was called. "I dunno what it was called but I think we uh... read the pattern of the shell?" The Korean boy answered doubtfully.

"We will be looking at the shell today, but not the patterns. Those are all very great answers though. Keep up the great thinking." She gave Jackson snaps for his awesome try!

Scooping up Bob and placing him in a box on the table Cassie turned back to the class. “You all have had some wonderful answers, but Ethan hit it spot on. Today we are going to be practicing Plastromancy. It is one of the oldest forms of Divination and originated in China. Like Eden had mentioned first it uses the Oracle Bone.” Picking up an empty turtle shell she pointed towards the bottom. “The shell has two parts to it. The oracle is the lower part.” Having the shell already cut apart she separated it and set down the top part showing them only the Oracle bone. “Now none of the shells you will be using were taken from any living turtles. No turtle was harmed in gathering these shells. I have a friend with a turtle pond and she gathers the shells as she finds them.” With her gift Cassie would never dream of harming an animal, even if it was for Divination.

“Now this form of Divination was done to predict different things, the weather, crop planting, and the future of the Royal Family. The Diviner would carve a small name in the shell of which they wanted to do the prediction for. Then because it is ancient times there would be a ritual that was formed. This is where some called it a bit darker, such as our gastromancy was. The vials in front of you will be used for the ritual part. One is dragon’s blood the other is oil. Some Diviners felt dragon’s blood brought out the cracks more where others felt the oils did. I will let you choose which you want to use.” She looked around the room to see if they were keeping up. Waving her wand she sent Oracle Bones to each student. “Now you will each have your own shell. First you will take your wand and carve in a small area your name, because you will want to do the prediction for yourself. Then you will pour a bit of the blood or the oil on your shell. Not both just one.” She demonstrated these two steps using the blood on her own. “For the next step at each table you will two small pokers. Heat the end with your wand and then push it into the shell. The heat will make the shell crack. Those cracks will be how we do our reading. Once you are finished with the poker please set it in the small bucket of water on the floor near your table.”

Taking the poker, Cassie heated it and pushed it gently into the shell. Seeing it cracking she set down the poker and held up her shell. “You will see something like this when you are finished. You have ten minutes to do these steps. Do you have any questions?”

OOC: Just as Cassie said go ahead and have your charrie work with the shell in front of them. Pick either a blood or Oil Vial and have them pour it over the shell, then RP getting a poker and pressing heat on the shell which will make it crack. The cracks can be how you want them. It wouldn't crack it all the way through or a chunk off, this is just cracking on the first layer. So more of straight across, up and down, some zig zag type cracks. You will have until 11:00 a.m. EST to finish this part of the lesson :) It should take you at least two post to do.

So they were going to be reading the turtle's shell but not in the way she had thought. Interesting. Lux was stumped as to what that meant. Trying to recall all the divination methods she had studied it was hard to remember one involving turtles. Last lesson had been easier because how could she forget a method based on reading noises like farts and burps. It had been so strange to her as well as fascinating in a way.

Not really knowing the answer to the next question, Lux decided to remain silent and listen to her smart classmates. OMG, Bob was playing with an exercise ball. That was so cute.

Ooooh. She was RIGHT. Eden hadn't expected them to be doing the oracle bone thing because it required just a shell and stuff--which meant dead turtle, pretty much. She stiffened when Morgan showed them the shell...but then said she hadn't harmed any turtles.

Good.

Eden would have been FURIOUS with one of her favorite professors, yeah? Because TURTLES.

She immediately began to think about which liquid to use...the oil or the blood? She was somewhat intrigued by the blood...and so...she'd probably use that, yes. Dragon blood. How cool. She wouldn't ask how Professor Morgan how she got this, because it was probably donated or something, and there was NO point in wasting her breath.

After she collected her shell and a vial of blood, she sat back in her seat and began the carving process. Her name. Right in the shell. THE SOUND and the NOISE ugh. Eden didn't like it. It made her WINCE..but she did it. Did she need her first and last name? Hmm. She would do her first and last name JUST in case.

Oracle bone?

Lux had never heard of that before, but it sounded interesting. Look at Eden getting it right. Her friend was so smart. Opening her notebook to a new page, Lux made sure to record all the useful information. Some of it was coming back to her now that it was mentioned, but it was really hard to retain everything that she had read in preparation for the OWLs.

Thank Merlin no turtles had been harmed for the lesson - not that she could ever see Professor Cassie doing that. Just was nice to have her thoughts confirmed.

Taking a shell and a vial of dragon's blood (because DRAGONZZZ), Lux set about carving her name. Probably best to do her last name as well just to cover all bases. This part wasn't so nice because it felt weird carving into a part of an animal even if it wasn't around anymore. This had been a turtle's HOME.

There were his snaps! Adi grinned though a bit sheepishly. "That's what I meant, Professor. I don't know why I keep saying seeker.'' His eyes fixated back to Bob. Could he have a Bob the turtle, too? One that loved ball just as much as this one?
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Awh! Did Cassie have to put Bob back in the box? Maybe it was a good thing because Adi (and some of his other classmates, he was sure) must be distracted by the adorableness of the turtle. Anywayyy... Plastromancy! It had nothing to do with the words 'Turtleomancy' or anything like some had said. But who could blame them? He would have thought along those same lines too. Adi watched with interest as Cassie showed them the Oracle bone from the cut shell. Well, he KNEW that the woman wouldn't harm any turtle but still, it felt good to have confirmation about that.

Ohh, dragon blood and oils! Cool! Adi knew which he was using. Blood... because blood was cool, yo. And even cooler still was the Oracle Bone which suddenly plopped down in front of him. Momentarily leaving the Bone alone, he watched as his Professor did a demonstration. Right! It seemed easy enough.

First step? Adi retrieved his wand to finely carve his name into a spot on the shell: Aditya Rehman. Proper names were best to be used for such important things, yes? The carving was easily done which was a surprise because for some reason he had expected it to be difficult. Heh. He then reached for a vial, uncapped it and poured dragon blood over it just as Cassie had done.

So far, so good!

Aha. See? It was always good to make an attempt. Professor Cassie seemed pretty pleased with his answer, even though it was wrong. She was like Professor Glendower in that way. Anyway, he wasn't TOTALLY wrong, only about the name thing, because they were going to use those mysterious vials.

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... So... that was... blood? Um. Oh. It shouldn't have been such a bad thing, because they worked with animal blood and stuff in Potions all the time, and MAYBE he should have expected it. But, uh... yeah. He hadn't. Toby eyed the vials for just a moment, but there was work to be done, something he was reminded of when an oracle thingy turned up at his desk. At least these were gathered humanely. That was good.

Right then, first off... name carving Toby could do that. He grabbed his wand and pointed it at the oracle section of shell he had. "Intaglio..." Usually the spell was done with runes, but Toby thought it could also work quite well here. It was still carving, after all, he just didn't need to keep chanting. "Intaglio." ... "Intaglio."

Eventually, he'd done it, carved 'Toby' on the shell. Except, uh... huh. The seventh year raised his hand. "Professor, do we have to carve our full name onto it? I'm not sure mine will fit, but what if I end up doing a reading for another Toby?" Not that he'd mind, really, but he'd never know if he was right about it. And... come to think of it. "... And was I supposed to write 'Tobias'? Or is 'Toby' okay?"

Everybody got snaps in Cassie's class... even if you were wrong. Which AJ was by the way. And what do you mean that Zander hadn't been correct? AJ would have bet money that he was. Well then. This was why they weren't Ravenclaws, huh? Speaking of Ravenclaws, Eden was spot on with her oracle bone mess. And that was what exactly? How did they know this stuff? AJ knew hip bones, and things like that, but oracle bones? Pffft. Get out of here with that mess.

"We get to drink dragon blood?" Her eyes lit up for a second before she realized that wouldn't be happening. Of course it wouldn't be. "Oh, right..." It was for the shell. Made sense, but AJ kind of wanted to drink it. No reason why she did other than she was a bit out there. She bet it tasted magical.

Obviously she was going to pick the vial that had dragon blood in it. Now she needed to get this turtle shell cracking. First, she needed her name carved into it. Picking up her wand, she got down to business. Before her very eyes was Aubrey written pretty sloppily on the turtle shell. It was still get the job done though.

Norah, who had been much too busy trying to keep herself from squealing at the CUTIE PATOOTIE turtle with the ball, didn't manage to get an answer to the second question. Oh well. There was cute stuff going on, you couldn't blame her.

Her eyes widened at the sight of the empty shell 'cause that was a real live turtle home they were talking about. She put her hand in the air to inform Professor Cassie that there was no way she was going to steal a turtle's home just to tell the future, but brought it down again quickly because apparently that wasn't even the case. Man. Professors really did think of everything. She listened to the rest of the instructions with her eyes still fixed on Bob the Turtle, then picked up her wand and brought the empty shell closer to her. Okay. Name carving time. Radical. She used her wand to carve 'N O R A H' into the shell, eyeing it closely because her handwriting didn't really look to nice on a shell. Not that her handwriting normally looked nice at all. So that was saying something. She lifted her wand again to carve K I T T R E D G E except she ran out of room and the end bits got way smaller. SHE knew what it said, so it'd be okay, right? Maybe? Hopefully? With a small shrug the fourth year set her wand down and turned to the vials. Real live DRAGON blood? Wasn't that super fancy shmancy?

It did make Zander pretty darn proud when AJ agreed with him. Validation always felt good. Especially when his answer had been a complete guess. It made him feel a lot more confident in the fact that he was-- Wrong? What. But his answer made so much more sense that plasticomancy?? Or uh, whatever the right answer ended up being. Hmph. Sounded like the divination of plastic bottles not turtle shells. Man. This was almost as bad as the scrying, crying fiasco.

The Gryffindor just shrugged as Professor Morgan went on to explain the process they were going to use. And he was almost very angry about the fact that they were going to be hurting poor creatures, except for the fact that apparently no turtles were harmed in the making of this plasticomancy stuff.

Alright. He was still skeptical though.

Zander opted to grab a vial of the oil instead of blood, deciding it seemed like a safer bet. Then back to the shell he went and uh, how was he supposed to carve his name exactly? You know, Toby seemed to know what he was doing... So Zander followed the Hufflepuffs lead, using the same method to carve 'Zander Adair' into his turtle shell.

Watching the turtle play was pretty funny. She'd never gotten to observe a turtle playing before so this was a nice first for her. A short lived first but a first just the same. She had to pay attention though and quickly some note taking was done before she began to get to work on the task at hand here for this lesson.

Picking up the turtle shell which was thankfully not gotten from a turtle that lived in it at the time. That would just be seriously wrong on so many levels. Taking a moment to examine it she pulled her wand out from it's holder. Her name was needed for this. Would it matter if she used the name she went by or her given name? Hady thought this through a second before deciding it probably would 'work' best if she used her full name.

Using her wand she carefully worked at carving her name into the shell. 'Hadleigh Lynch'. Setting her wand down all she needed to do now was decided if she wanted to use the dragon blood or oil. Really is was a no brainer there.

Plastromancy....got it.

Ben absently copied the word into his notes as a title as he listened to what Professor Morgan had to say about the subject matter. They would be using found shells and only the bottom piece as it was. The oracle bone as it was called. And the vials in front of them all was suddenly indentified, the mention of dragon's blood getting his attention. He listened as attentive as he could, copying down the process they would be using for reference. He didn't trust himself to remember.

Not after he forgot about animating his drawings in History of Magic.

History of Magic....

The Gryffindor momentarily got distracted by the memory and the horrible ending to it. The floating oracle bone sent his way had briefly nudged into him before snapping him out of his daze and brought back to the class at hand. Cue sigh before he made sure the bone rested neatly on the table in front of him. A glance at his notes reminded him of where to start and he slipped his wand from its home and went to work carving his name onto his bone.

His fortune...maybe it tell him what would happen with him and Adi?

Well that was a relief. No turtles were harmed in the gathering of these shells. Not that she could even picture Professor Cassie harming anything like ever. She was just too sweet for that. The sixth year just sit back listened and took notes. She didn't feel like doing much talking today. Just listening to the lesson, that was all. Asking questions when and if she had them.

First she was suppose to carve a name into the shell. So she carved her name into the turtle shell. She would have to do this rather small since her name was fairly long. She started out carving C-I-N-N-A- She looked at Cassie when Toby ask her the very same question that she was thinking. "Yeah, My full name is pretty long too." She look up and waited to hear Cassie's response to Toby's question and looked down the only way it was fitting was it was going to have to be very small. She was going to leave just Cinna, if she could. Who didn't call her that? In fact she was thinking about Just going by Cinna or Cinnamon and dropping the whole last name part, she could do that right? All sorts of awsome people went by one name.

Merlin. Beyonce. Madonna. Oz. Michelangelo. Oprah.

Yeah this was getting way of off the subject of divination. Oppps.

Oops. Wrong answer. Never mind, Zhenya had already crossed out her answer and put in Ethan's answer. She would do some more research on that tonight if she had the chance, otherwise she would add it to her list of key concepts to research in preparation to NEWT's. But wait, the readings were taken from the underside of the turtle shell? UNDERSIDE? As in... see you later Mr. Turtle, let me see inside your shell? Oh Merlin...

But it was okay, because Professor Cassie explained everything to them and showed them a turtle shell and explained that they had not been taken by harming turtles. Okay, well she could do it then. Ahh, so the vials were of oil and dragon blood? So no experiments then, that was okay. But if dragon blood worked better, then Zhenya decided she would probably use dragon blood too. She wrote down some dot points under the title, so that she knew what they were doing and what its purpose was. And there were their oracle bones, coming towards them. Zhenya left hers on her desk where it landed, deciding she would have a touch once Professor Cassie had finished speaking to them.

First things first, was to carve her name in it. Getting her wand out of the pocked inside her robes, Zhenya pointed it at the shell and carved in her letters; Z-H-E-N-Y-A.

Kace was interested in reading a turtle shell. I mean the study of the turtle shell was called Plastromancy. That is an interesting name. Kace was relieved that no turtles were harmed in getting these shells. Kace knew the turtles like shed their shell if it was too big or something. Now he needed to carve a name into the shell he was doing the prediction for. He thought about names. He could do Emmy, Braedon, Puck or Cinna. Those were the first names off in his mind but he wanted to do his own. He was going to write his own name. He needed to chose between dragons blood and oil. He puckered his lips and wanted to try the dragons blood. I mean because it was cooler!

Now onto doing the first step, he got out his wand and began to carve his name into it. It shouldn't be too hard because it was short and sweet. He began to carve till it said...

SPOILER!!: Carving

Now onto the next set of steps.

So Tia didn't really know how she knew that about the East Asia thing; just one of those random knowledge, but of course she didn't recall exactly what the name of the Divination form was. But hey at least it was a good guess as to what they were doing with the turtles today (because it wasn't like there was much they could do with them).

Plastromancy. Interesting. And sounded vaguely familiar. Tia jotted down some of the key bits mentioned by Professor Cassie and mostly listened attentively to what they had to do. She drew a rough sketch of a turtle shell in her notes and labeled the two parts, making a note to go check a textbook later for a better sketch.

So she had to this form on herself? What if she didn't want to know things about her future because it was a scary prospect. Sure she'd used various forms before on herself, but this just seemed different now. The people she really wanted to know things about well, they were probably going to do their own. Could she do one of them too and maybe see if their notes match up? Because this was all coincidental, wasn't it? The shell they got? It wasn't like they really made the cracks because it was their shell. The cracks were already there. Maybe not visible, but they were there.

Sighing, she figured she better write her own name; even if she didn't believe in its true accuracy. 'T-I-A-M-A-R-I-E' she carved with her wand near the base, deciding the surname wasn't terribly necessary.

M-O-N

Okay there. She was apparently going by Cinnamon now. Just Cinnamon, or Cinna but for this divination lesson she was Cinnamon. At least according to the turtle shell, anyway. Okay so now she had to choose between the oil or the blood. That was a easy choice of course she was going to choose the blood. She wasn't one of those sissy girls afaid of blood and would freak out over it. Haha. So not a sissy girl. She went and got the vial of the blood.

Taking the vial of the blood she poured out the blood onto the shell. Getting her wand she heated up the tip of the one of the pokers. Pushing the pokers into the shell she heard the shell begin to crack so pushing it just a bit more but not enought to crack it deeper. There she placed the poker into the water.

She was done, so she stayed in her seat, and looked around for something to do or maybe someone to help. Or maybe a take a afternoon nap. Because yeah she just had lunch right before this class and everyone knows that after you eat you get sleepy.

Wow wee that was a interesting cracked up shell design. She started sketching it out in her notebook. Really any time she could squeeze in to do some kind of art she would do it.

Eden finished carving her name into the shell and examined her work. She wasn't a very neat carver. Her name looked like it had been written by a CHILD. It made sense why, but still, she squinted at it.

Merlin.

Anyways, she needed to move on. What had Professor Morgan said? She had to pour the blood onto the shell...uncapping the vial, Eden tilted it slowly, allowing the thick, red liquid to wash over the shell. it smelled odd. Not bad, but odd, for sure. Where was Kyroh? They were using DRAGON blood. Letting it seep into the shell, Eden figured she should heat up the...poker thing. She heated it up with her wand and pushed it into the shell, watching as the cracks formed.

This was kinda' cool. Eden liked it, anyways. But she always enjoyed Divination.

Time to do the hot poker stuff. He needed to use two small pokers and heat it with the end of his wand. He totally was brain farting on the spell he needed to use to heat up the poker. Then it clicked and he used the heat up spell..."Incendio!" and then a fire came to life and he put his poker in it and then his other one. Once he felt it was hot the big puff said, "FINITE!" and then it went out. He began to push the pokers into the shell and he saw it began to crack. Well this is good right? This is what Professor Cassie said they would be reading.

Once he was finished with his two pokers, he put it into the bucket next to his desk. Then he realized his carving didn't work. Uh oh....then he heard Toby saying the spell and he went with his spell and began to chant it like in Ancient Runes and said the spell, "Intaglio Kace....Intaglio Kace....Intaglio Kace..." and then he saw it slowly but surely his name on his turtle shell. There we go. Now onto the next set of directions.

Name carved. Now onto the the next part which was to produce or highlight, rather, the turtle shell cracks. Which if Tia considered solo this part, it was rather cool, even if she still didn't buy any of the interpretations. Because what if for instance she had taken another shell; were both shells meant to be for her, or just the first? Is everything purely coincidental?

Right then. Dragon blood. Because Professor Cassie had mentioned something about blood giving a better reading and she had a hard enough time as it was with readings. Uncapping the vial of blood, the fifth year let the thick red substance flow over her shell, trying her best to focus on herself for the most accurate reading. Not about Divination. Her classmates. Her exams. Just her.

She closed her eyes, thinking, and then opened them. Time to heat up her poker to make some cracks more prominent. Or something like that. Incendio, she cast with her wand to create some fire and stuck her poker in the fire with her other hand. After a minute or two, Finite. And the fire was extinguished.

She then proceeded to jab the hot poker into the shell as the Professor had directed. And watched the cracks begin to form in crazy zig-zag like patterns. It was as if everything (her life?) was in chaos.

Janelle tried to keep up with Professor Cassie's explanation of Plastromancy by taking careful notes. She was constantly amazed by the number of things that could be used for Divination. Turtles, who would have thought? Janelle listened as the first part of what they would be doing was explained. This would definitely be interesting.

The first order of business was to get all of her supplies. Janelle got her shell and then looked at the vials that she had been given. Which one would she choose to use? Oil seemed like the obvious answer to Janelle, but dragon's blood.......now that was a special liquid. She decided to carve her name into her shell while she made her final decision.

Janelle took out her wand and began to trace her name into a small portion of the shell. Slowly and neatly, she wrote J-A-N-E-L-L-E. Her name was rather long, so she had to keep her letters small. When she was finished, Janelle stepped back and examined her work. Not bad, if she did say so herself. Now it was time to make the decision on which vial to use and and get things cracking. Janelle chuckled to herself as her mind thought of the bad pun. She was ready.

Pokers... where were the pokers? Adi took his eyes off of the totally fascinating red substance for a moment to locate the poker.Finding it, he pointed his wand. "Incendio!'' This wasn't going to take too long to heat, right? Not if the poker was metal... Nah. The heating didn't take long and soon after, Adi was repeating Professor Cassie's step, placing the heated poker ends into the shell.

Oh, hey! Cracks were happening! Well, he was certainly seeing them. He gave this process a minute or so. Now the poker could be removed now, right? There didn't seem to be more cracking happening now, anyway. In went the poker into the bucket of water next to the table he was seated at with a fierce hiiisssssssssing sound that hot objects make when they came in contact with water.

The Hufflepuff examined the shell. Yup. It looked like the Professor's all right.

Finished carving into the turtle shell, Lux took a moment to inspect her work. 'LUX CARRINGTON' was written in small letters so she had done good with the first step. Moving on to the DRAGONZZZ BLOOD.

It was so RED and normally she didn't like blood so it was kind of weird for her to choose it over the oil. Guess it was the appeal of dragons. Hehe. Removing the stopper from the vial, she poured the liquid over the shell. She had to admit that it looked cool. Hopefully no dragons had been hurt in the process.

Now she needed the poker...

...But where was it?

Confused, the redhead looked around before spotting it. "Aha!" Smiling to herself, Lux pointed her wand at the poker. "Incendio!" Time to get cracking. LOL, she was so punny.

Post 1! Mention of AJ

Angel, just stared at her sister AJ, had she just heard her right? Her sister wanted to drink Dragons Blood, that wouldn't taste nice right and now she was feeling sick. She had a funny feeling that her sister was wishing that she could have drunk the blood, she on the other hand was glad they wasn't.

Angel listened to the rest of what the Professor said and decided that she would figure out later which vial she was going to use... for now she had to get on with the first step.

Angel took her wand out because first she had to carve her name into the shell. She wished that she could pick some celebrity to carve her name into but saying that this probably was the best way because if she found out her favourite band was breaking up or something then she would cry.

Angel got to work carving her name, she first carved her first name Angel and then stopped to look at it, well that looked good, and then she went and carved her second name Valentine, she wanted to do this all correctly first time, she didn't want to have to start again, because she had no idea where the Professor was getting the shells from.

Following Professor Cassie's demonstration, Lux touched the poker to her turtle shell. Immediately a crack appeared so she was clearly doing everything correctly. Pleased with herself, she made another crack

Working at it for a minute or so, Lux soon had pretty cracks all over her shell. It still felt weird to mark up a creature's former home but she felt that the turtle wouldn't have minded. Actually, it was kind of fun. The red really was a nice touch even if blue would have been better. Maybe she could use the colour changing spell on it, but for now she would leave things as they were and finish using her poker.

After making a few more cracks Lux thought that was enough. The poker was placed into the bucket of water.

Hisssssss.

Now what?

Once her name had been carved on the shell, it was time to pour some blood on it. So, she picked up the red vial from the table, obviously the blood, and poured a little bit on the shell. She thought there was enough on there, it looked about the same as what Professor Cassie had done. Now she just needed to put some big cracks in it so that she could actually do what she had to do and read it.

Gathering her wand again, after having carved her name in it, and reaching for one of the small pokers. Hehe poker. She wouldn't be so evil as to poke anyone with it. Especially not after she heated it up. Speaking of, she raised her wand to the tip of the poker, the end she wasn't holding, and said "Incendio," sparking a small and controlled flame from the end of it. She left it on there for long enough that the tip glowed a bit, but thankfully the heat hadn't radiated up the other end of the poker. "Finite," she said, and the flames disappeared. As soon as she put her wand down, she drove the tip of the poker down towards the shell, and saw some cracks appearing. They shot out from the point of impact, spreading out, and twisting around the shell. Perfect.