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SPOILER!!: Individual Replies More great answers were coming her way, and Rosalyn added them all to the blackboard as they were shared: Quote:
but she would see soon enough. "I would like to try out silent acting today. So everyone taking turns acting out a scene without speaking during it." Sounded like a fun idea to her! "There are a number of people on the board, and I would like for you all to choose one of them and play out a scene with them. For instance you can be Damocles and silently act out working on creating wolfsbane potion, or Hermione Granger working on badges for SPEW. If you want to work with other people, you are more than welcome to do so. You could be Dumbledore facing Grindewald in a show down, or Dorcas Wellbeloved offering comfort to a woman in need of support." Hopefully they were all following along. "Of course if you would prefer to do someone who ISN'T on the board, you are more than welcome to do so!" There were a lot of people who had done something helpful. "To make things easier for us, before you begin acting out the scene, you can provide an explanation of who you are pretending to be and what you are playing out." That way people didn't get confused. "Don't worry if someone else does the person you want to; it's perfectly fine if someone is done more than once." "Once you are done performing, I would like for you each to write a few sentences on what you will do - if anything - to help contribute to the wizarding world in the upcoming year. It can be something like donating to charity or going out of your way to help other students. Whatever you feel you would want to do to help." With that out of the way, it was time for them to begin! OOC: Thanks for all the wonderful contributions everyone! Time to move on to the activity. For this there is NO post requirement, and you can all pretend that it's your turn to go when you're ready to perform. As Rosalyn said, this activity is for SILENT acting. For this part you just need to work out who you want to pretend to be and decide what you want to have them do. This can be done either independently or with a partner/small group. Then say a few words on what you are going to act out and play out the scene. Once you are done the main activity, your character can go back to their desks and write a few sentences on what they feel they could do to help make the world a better place in the upcoming year. If at any point you or your character need help, we are more than happy to do so. Either mention her in a post (make sure to add her to the title), or ask me through Skype/PM/VM. You have until 11:59 pm EST on May 31st to get this completed. |
Melbourne’s eyes toward Professor Newton and smiled at her as she mention that bees were a worthy thing to save. Her eyes then flicked over toward Kitty Valentine when Etta brought up the founders…this, answers like this seemed to be asking Kitty to snap. |
the Silent Acting part..... He angled his head with a slight crease on his brow, not quite sure if he understood what the Professor's activity was supposed to be about. Were they supposed to act out a historical character? What like charades minus the guessing? Well at least thats how he understood it. Well as with any acting venture worth the effort, he needed PROPS. So he took out several parchments and started scrunchy-rolling them out, then connecting one end to the other, so now he ended up with what looked like a very lengthy paper-rope. On one end of this he fashioned more paper scrunching so it would look like a reptile's head. Then he painted the whole thing in a dark green color. Now he's ready. He got up and laid his paper-rope prop on the ground, then engorgio'd it so that it was now several feet long and was as thick as his leg. He faced his classmates and cleared his throat "So uhm.... I'm gonna act out a historical hero that isnt on the board. And uhm-- oh wait just a sec--" he accio'd his HERBOLOGY book too and comically plopped it on the Professor's table for all to see "-- just so to avoid confusion." he grinned. And now for his silent acting. Since his wand is so keen on non-verbals he just thought of the levitation spell and subtly cast it on one end of his big paper-rope prop. It rose up, like a giant snake from history. Another silent fixate spell made the serpentine paper-prop hover menacingly in the air. The Gryffindor Ace walked forward, holding his wand as if he was wielding a broadsword and with a silent severing charm, sliced the giant snake's head clean right off, sending it flying across the room. He turned to his audience, smiled cheekily, and took a bow. He didnt say who it was, but the have got to know who that is right? |
Kitty mentions Katy was only half listening to her classmates, since the professor was tracking answers on the board, but she jolted up right when she heard a familiar voice stating a familiar, ugly opinion. When was that Kitty going to get it through her head that she was being an ugly bigot and it was unbecoming to her position as a prefect?? Katy was gonna have to write an angry letter to the Headmistress pretty soon. She managed to bite her tongue this time, but only because she didn't want to get in trouble. Somehow, last term she'd managed to avoid getting detention when she'd stood up to Kitty on this very topic, but it was unlikely her good luck would hold. She'd just behave and act out her hero from the list. "Neville Longbottom!" She pointed at Ace, who had gone first, and then bounced to her feet to go next. "I'm just going to act out the effects of my person's contribution to society, rather than the person his or herself." It shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Katy made claws with her hands and snarled silently, pantomiming a wild beast on the prowl. After a few moments of this, she pretended to sip from a bottle. The transformation from snarling beast to befuddled creature was probably a bit drawn out, but no one had ever denied that Katy wasn't a drama queen at times. She yawned and stretched before collapsing to her knees, then to a huddled mass on the floor. She fell asleep. For a moment. Then she was back on her feet and bowing. Ta-da! |
She'll tell you who she is in the next post Well, maybe Jessa wasn't convertible, at least not as easily as she had wondered. That was okay, she would have been surprised if there was another person at Hogwarts who shared her sentiments. And Mel also jumped in to defend the Statute, but then Professor Newton was moving the class along. "I'm just going to say that I disagree with Jessa and Mel, and that after class I'd be happy to debate them on the Statute. If you guys want." Obviously she directed this last sentence directly towards her classmates. Now see, that was much better than last year, right? She looked at Katy too, not because she'd said anything but just because of their history. It was not a hostile or a friendly look, just curious. She ruined her attention back to the task at hand. Who was she going to act for? Hmmm.... Standing up from her chair, she ripped a page out of her notebook and began scribbling furiously. Then she ripped another and another and wrote similar messages on them. Finally she drew her wand from her robes and shouted, "Accio Catena!" |
All of this talk about repealing the statute of secrecy was really confusing Emmeline. She didn't understand why they couldn't have Healers and Muggle Relations wizards work together to help Muggles obtain the medical knowledge they needed without magic. Or why Healers couldn't go in and save the day; didn't Muggles believe in random miracles? She thought Nanny had told her they did. But that statute had to stay in place. Not only was Jessa right about how Muggles felt about witches - Nanny had taught her all about the Burning Times - but some wizards would use the new freedom to take advantage of Muggles. She shuddered at the thought of wizards who believed that wizardkind was superior to everyone and everything else feeling free to act more openly and interact harshly with Muggles legally. Before she could try to say any of this, though, she was distracted by the professor's instructions. MORE creative stuff? First Astronomy (although drawing constellations suddenly didn't seem so bad), then singing in Muggle Studies (which she hadn't done), and now acting in a history class! Emmeline grimaced slightly; she was NOT creative at all, and did not expect this sort of thing from this particular subject. She was glad they weren't just reading the textbook, but she would prefer the professor to have told Still, the first year had already refused to participate in the Muggle Studies activity, so she didn't think she could skip out on another one this month. Emmeline twirled her quill between her fingers as she tried to think of something to do. Finally, she pulled out two spare pieces of parchment and drew BIG creatures acting out their parts on both of them. The professor had said multiple students could use the same famous wizard, so she hoped Derf wouldn't mind her choice. The Gryffindor walked to the front of the room like Ace and the others had done with her two drawings, nerves already jangling. "Umm, I'm going to show Newt Scamander on an adventure with one of his famous creatures," she told the class fairly quietly. She really didn't want to do this; her palms were sweating and her heart was beating like mad, but she had to do it, she wanted good marks in this class. She placed one of her drawings down on an empty desk nearby and ran to the other side of the room. There she held up her first drawing so everyone could see it; it showed a large picture of a niffler running towards a bank vault and hopping on a banker's cart full of gold. Emmeline crouched down to a height where she could reasonably pick up a niffler and ran in that crouch alllll the way to the other side of the room where she'd left her other parchment. Discarding the first picture, she mimed dramatically grabbing a small creature and turning him upside down before tickling where his pouch would be to make him release his treasures. That done, she picked up her second piece of parchment with two drawings on it. The first drawing showed the niffler lounging inside the bank vault, wearing a satisfied expression on his face while gold and precious jewels overflowed from his pouch. The second showed one hand holding the niffler upside down while another hand tickled its pouch and the treasures spilling out onto the floor of the vault. That was what she had done, see? Feeling her face flush with embarrassment, the first year collected her pictures and practically ran back to her seat, where she slunk down as far as she could go without winding up on the floor. She hoped that wasn't too terrible. |
Feel free to say Roo roped your character into his thing Rooney paused, looking at Kitty before putting his head down and pretending everything was not a debate again. Was she making History of Magic idiot decisions her talent now? Because that was what she was going to be remembered for. Those opinions of hers that she didn't accept as being wrong to the majority. Roo had already decided that he wasn't going to talk to her about it this time because she kept out of his issues and it was probably just an unspoken understanding for them both. He was glad that Katy had decided to keep quiet on the matter, shooting her a thankful smile across the classroom. That best friend of his was almost as problematic as he was and that was saying a whole lot. Not that he'd say that to her because Katherine Toussaint got really grumpy with him really quickly. Probably because he had a lot of thoughts about the decisions she made and had made in the past. Hands stuffed into his pockets, the Ravenclaw waited his turn to get up in front of the class. It was probably going to obvious immediately who he was doing, because it was the exact answer he had given minutes ago. But he believed in his answer and therefore was going to stick by it. He took a few moments to orchestrate three students from the front of the class to come up with him, instructing them in whispers to act as ladylike as possible and to walk over to him so he could help. Also mentioned TWICE that they were NOT to speak or make any noise at all. The Head Boy had instructed. Ahem. Taking his own spot, Rooney went against telling people what he was doing and put himself straight into his role. He too, held himself a little lighter and stepped a little more gracefully than he would normally - giving off the hint that his character was female. Beckoning over the others with him, Rooney opened up a pretend door, draping pretend blankets over each of the 'girls' coming into the shelter he had set up for them. Once all in through the pretend door, he dished out meals to each of them and gave out hugs. It was obvious that he was Miss Dorcas, right? |
Kitty and ROONEY (because there's no way she'd not) and sorta Mel Still a little rattled from her Prefects suggestion--HER OWN PREFECT OF ALL PEOPLE--Jessa tried keeping all her focus on the parchment she'd been doodling on. For as much as she could, the young girl willed herself not to consider all the possibilities that would come with repealing such an important statute. The sound of her name drew her attention to Melbourne who was...agreeing with her? Well good. Told her that some people were still thinking clearly. Jessa nodded to the Professor's insistence they not turn this into a debate. That was fine by her. This wasn't a topic she would sit through by any stretch of the imagination. "No thanks." She replied when Kitty mentioned disagreeing and offered to discuss afterwards. "I'd rather not." Muggles mixing with magic was a very touchy subject for her because of personal experience. A discussion on repealing the law and leaving a free for all was literally the last thing she needed. On a happier note, ROONEY NEEDED VOLUNTEERS!!! Lucky she'd been sat near the front of the room today. It allowed her to jump up immediately and make herself available. Jessa was sure to listen to his instructions and was all prepared to SILENTLY go on with him. The best part, she would have to say, was when he'd given out HUGS. Roo gave good hugs. Everyone knew this, right? If not, they should. Already up there, the Ravenclaw figured she would go next. "Hang on, I'll begin in a minute." She said by way of warning, just before reaching into her pocket for a loose piece of parchment and tearing it into strips. The strips she then turned into sticks of about the same size as her wand. "Okay! Now I'm ready!" And that was the last she would say. Without another word, Jessa waved her wand, then waved the sticks to give the impression they were "all the same". She then moved along the class offering these stick wands to the others, gesturing for them to give it a wave before moving on to offer a stick wand to someone else. Once she got back to the front of the room, Jessa took a bow then went back to her seat to begin her few sentences. SPOILER!!: Parchment |
Rosalyn was relieved to see that the Statute discussion was being dealt with in a calm manner as opposed to breaking out into a war as had happened last term. Discussions were always welcome just so long as they stayed civil, and with the Statue, that wasn't always the case. At any rate her attention was turned to Miss Sorin-Ward. "Muggles have indeed helped a lot to shape our world and there are many things for us to be thankful to them for. Unfortunately I have to keep my lessons skewed more towards the magical aspect unless we're dealing with muggles who came in direct contact with magic." Muggles were absolutely wonderful and it could be said that their achievements could be seen as greater in a way because they couldn't rely on magic for assistance. People started on the activity, and she smiled as she watched them. Rosalyn hoped that they would enjoy acting out and was tempted to tell a few of them that they were supposed to explain who they were pretending to be, but decided not to. Instead she would give them the choice on if they wanted to explain or not. So long as they portrayed the person in a way that was understandable; that was the important part. OOC: There are still 48 hours for you all to finish up in. :) |
Emmeline heaved a sigh of relief and sat up properly in her chair again. No one was staring at her after she'd done the activity; in fact, they had moved on and she was interested to see what Rooney and his group would be doing. The first year smiled at Jessa as she took one of the fake wands from the older girl. This would be super fun to watch, she could already tell. She had a nagging feeling in the back of her mind, though, like she'd forgotten something. What... Oh! The writing part of the assignment! Emmeline quickly pulled out a fresh piece of parchment and got to work on that. SPOILER!!: parchment |
Playing MAJOR catch up Noelle had been in the back of the class taking notes. There were a lot of them. People who had made a difference in the wizarding world. Her quill was scribbling as hard as it could. Thank Merlin for self-inking quills. Once all the notes had been taken, Noelle gave a look between the debate that seemed to have sprung up in class. Moving along.. They were to be acting out something? Wait... silently acting it out. Hmm.. Since Rooney needed volunteers, Noelle hobbled up to pretend she was one of the women in need. Ending her volunteering with a hug from Rooney, she went back to sit down and wait for others to go up while she worked on making wands out of parchment. When it was her turn, Noelle went up. She was very dramatic as she worked the parchment into wands. Her eyebrows wiggled and her mouth was in a very concentrated manner. Once she made a few "wands", she lifted them in the air dramatically with a gleeful expression. Once her wands were made, she pretended to put them in a box. Noelle didn't ask for volunteers, but she did go around and place the wands on random students desks. She was Garrick Ollivander. Noelle finished her silent act and went back to her seat to write out what she would contribute. SPOILER!!: Contribution |
A debate with Jessa was just taken off the table by Jessa herself, which was totally cool with Kitty, "Okay, no problem," she replied casually, smiling thinly at Jessa to show she wasn't angry or anything. There was nothing wrong with having a difference of opinion, and she really didn't hold anything against those who disagreed with her. If they ever met a kind, sick Muggle, she was sure they'd change their minds. Speaking of which... Kitty reached into the air to grab the pair of plastic handcuffs she'd summoned from her trunk with her spell. "Ha!" she cried as it hit her hands with more force than she'd expected. Rubbing her bruised hands gingerly, she then slipped the handcuffs over her wrists and held up the sheets of paper she'd been writing on: Stop Spell Suppression! Repeal the Statute! Smiling mischievously, she mouthed silently, "I'm Carlotta Pinkstone." Then she removed the handcuffs and began writing what she would do to help the world. |
... and the Parchment part.... Discussions about Kitty's stand on the Statute was in play again, and he listened attentively as many of his own friends said their bit. It did indeed seem like a more reasonable discussion unlike the last time, which he can only see as progress. So what can he do to be a worthwhile contributing member of the Wizarding World this year? Gosh the concept can be quite daunting to think about for the almost 16 year old, who currently just worries about his OWLs this year and hoping that both his IMPS candidates will make it out alive and in one happy piece by the end of the challenges. He drew up the parchment, set his quill against the page and started writing.... SPOILER!!: Parchment |
part 3 - essay Now that she'd acted her part, Kitty sat down on her chair to do the essay part of the activity. She hesitated for awhile, not sure what to write. At first she'd been planning to write about being an activist to repeal the Statute. But the essay wasn't about what they'd do after school, it was about the upcoming year, and no amount of activism would get the Statute repealed in just one year. But what could a Ravenclaw prefect in her sixth year at school do on a wide scale to make the world a better place? She thought about it for a few moments before the answer dawned on her. She bent down and began to write... SPOILER!!: Parchment |
random mentions. being pulled by Rooney. acting, etc etc Was it just her or did it seem like Kitty was always looking for an argument? Perhaps the girl should pursue a field in litigation. Repealing the statute though? It wasn't about equality and openness, but it was about protection and self-preservation. Also, how could she possibly think about equality and openness, when she didn't even want to give Salazar Slytherin an open-mind to see how he thought about things, but was so quick to judge him. Hypocrite. Fortunately, Professor Newton was quick to nip the discussion in the bud this year, which led to her to focus on the task at hand. Silent acting. With an act in mind, obviously she would portray the professor candidate she voiced earlier, Skylar sat watching others for a moment to wait her turn. Neville Longbottom, stellar performance, she grinned at the Gryffindor Prefect. Uh oh, that first year Gryffindor stole acting out as Newt; Sky hoped Derf wouldn't be upset by that. Also, what was it with Rooney acting out as females? First Charms with his Halloween costume, now this? But she didn't have time to ponder as she'd been pulled up along with Jessa and faked being pampered and fed and then she got a Rooney!hug. So sweet of Rooney, who obviously was taking care of distressed witches. Taking a little curtsey when the Head Boy was done, she sat back down a moment to watch Jessa's performance. And then Noelle making wands was simple marvelous. "Thank you," she muttered to the older girl, who obviously was a wandmaker. Probably the original owner of Ollivander's ... Garrick was his name? Oi. What was that with Kitty and the statute now? The girl just did NOT give up, did she? Well, good as time as any to break into her act. Having made a paper beard with a blank piece of parchment, she used adhaero to stick it to her face, altered her robes to appear all red, and went up to the front of the classroom. Taking a seat on the desk, she promptly began acting as if she was teaching the class, talking randomly about Christmas ironically enough. Or not, ironically, considering. Hopping off the desk, she faked writing on the board with chalk as well. Okay, so while she never had the blessing of having Anjelica Lainey teach her, and she doubted her stories were half as interesting from what she heard, Skylar hoped she got the point across. Beard. Red outfit. Storytelling. Time to go sit down and think about what she might do in the upcoming year and let someone else perform. |
Great big SHINY WIDE BROWN EYES WERE HAPPENING. This... this had suddenly just become the best lesson ever (except for the part after all the fun part which... ew). ACTING. THIS was even better than SINGING in class. Oh, except for the fact that it was SILENT acting and Abey mostly liked using his voice when he acted because it was good for extra dramatic effect. Being quiet was usually what he did when he wanted to relax and recharge and sit on his own and paint, so... it was weird to combine SILENCE with THEATRE, at least to the young Mr. Botros. Anyway, Abey KNEW who he was going to pick, obviously, because it had been his own suggestion, and obviously it was extra special because they even shared a name and everything. Once it was his turn, he all but ran up to the front of the class, skidding to a halt on the stone floor. Ahem. First off, Abey made to stand up straight and tall, holding himself proudly and distinguishedly like Abraham Botroses tended to. He had SEEN pictures of his great-grandfather from back in those days, which made it even easier to know what he was aiming for. Of course, the actual ACTIONS might need to be a bit more symbolic and everything, because... well, it wasn't like LITERAL hide and seek, apparently, what his namesake had once done, but for the sake of an act that would make sense, Abey knew he could improvise. For a moment, he wandered around his 'stage', doing wizardy things and magic (and miming like he was holding a wand instead of getting out his actual wand, because he didn't want to accidentally do magic or poke someone's eye out). Then, he acted like he was reading the newspaper, and looked SHOCKED and APPALLED, because actually he was reading all about this whole war thing and the mean things they were saying about muggleborns. Rushing to the other side of his stage, Abey made like he was letting himself out of a door, then circled the floor for a little while, travelling and searching and SWISHING HIS ROBES ALL IMPRESSIVELY. Then, suddenly, there they were! Neighbours - invisible to everyone in the room - that he knew were muggleborns. Abey USHERED THEM CLOSER, showed them the newspaper, then LOOKED AROUND LIKE OH NO. Gesturing the 'others' to come with him, he circled the floor a couple more times until he was back in his 'house', and started motioning as though he was guiding people to actual hiding places in the actual classroom - behind and under desks and through the classroom door and the like. After that, it was time to act natural. Abey went back to his 'newspaper', acting just as he had been doing before, then waved out of the 'window' of his 'house', as though people were passing by outside and looking in. Abey smiled until they were 'gone', then retrieved everyone from their hiding places. With that, he looked all around as though checking the coast was clear, gestured his invisible muggleborns to come with him, and exited stage left! Meaning, he went straight out of the classroom door. AND THEN HE CAME BACK. "I was Abraham Botros!" In case that wasn't clear. ... Well, looked like the fun part was over. |
People were already starting to act out their chosen famous or important people, and Stasya was prepared to watch everyone with interest. Especially since she was hoping it meant that Professor Newton’s trying to stop the argument over if the statute was good or not worked. Not that she really understood everything about the statute, but she figured there had to be a good reason it existed. And she didn’t want to be discriminated against either. She knew that not all Muggles liked magic. She knew that most of them didn’t know it was real, either. Mrs. Allsopp didn’t know about magic, and she didn’t want to have to stop visiting her and all her pets when she was home because magic wasn’t secret anymore and people might not think it was as helpful and everything it seemed like Kitty thought they would. But then it was all back, as the Ravenclaw prefect decided not to let it go. She was wide-eyed at that performance, practically forgetting to tell Emmeline that she’d liked her performance. But she could tell her later. Right now she was worried that something bad was going to happen. Luckily, she had Skylar and Abey to watch, letting herself feel a bit less like she was at risk of wanting to hide. Both of their acts were a lot less scary, and she managed to stand up once Abey had finished his. She still had to do hers, after all, and while they’d been told they didn’t have to use who they’d mentioned she figured she could leave Newt Scamander to Derf if he wanted to follow Emmeline’s act. Plus, she knew what she was going to do so it was easy. At first, she pretended to be knitting. Another thing she knew about because of visits to Mrs. Allsopp’s house. After finishing a few pretend knitted things, she acted like she was leaving them around the room before going back to pretend-knitting more things that also got left around the room. And she also went to her desk and got a piece of parchment on which she scribbled “Society for the Protection of Elfish Welfare” and a bunch of random scribbles to represent a manifesto. It was only then that she returned to her seat, leaving the scribbled parchment on her desk as she waited to see who would go next. Plus, she took out another piece of parchment to work on the written part of the activity. SPOILER!!: parchment |
Okay, see, Junia's cousin Abey performing? Totally innocent and adorable, unlike that instigator of a Ravenclaw Prefect. Not that discussions and debates were bad, but when fueled by the wrong things, they were certainly irritating. Even that First Year, Staysa, pretend knitting was kind of cool. The girl was supposed to be the famous witch, Hermione Granger, Sky was sure of it especially when she took note of what the girl scribbled down. Okay, focus, it was time to figure out she could help the wizarding world in the upcoming year. Nothing, Newton, absolutely nothing. She was only fourteen, so what could she do? It wasn't as if she made her own money to donate to charity. Closing her eyes a moment to think, she then opened when she found inspiration from a week ago. SPOILER!!: Parchment |
Shay took some notes and jotted all of the people that made important contributions, according to her classmates. Now it was time to have a little fun. They got to select one of the people mentioned and act out a scene pertaining to them. Oh this was going to be interesting. After giving it a little thought, Shay decided to portray Mr. Ollivander. Since she was the one to mention him, she thought it was only right. When her turn came, Shay stood in front of the class. She wanted to give her silent portrayal and see if the class could figure out what she was doing. But following instructions, she gave the class a heads up. I am going to portray Mr. Ollivander showing wands to a new student. Shay put on a serious face and hunched her shoulders a bit. She wanted to give that older wizard vibe. The Gryffindor looked down questioningly, as if seeing a smaller child. Then she nodded and turned around. Moving her head up and down, Shay pretended to look for something. She reached up and removed an invisible box from an invisible shelf. Turning back to her imaginary student, she pretended to sit the box down and remove a wand. She reached out as if giving the wand to the child and waited. A moment later, Shay jumped back in surprise. Then she shook her head, as if that wand wouldn't do. Taking the wand back, she looked for another. When she found imaginary wand number two, she repeated the process of handing it to student who was not there. This time, more head shaking followed. Finally, she pretended to reach for another wand and handed it over. This time, Shay broke into a big smile and began nodding enthusiastically. She took the wand back, pretended to box it and reached out to give it back to the "student. The end. Acting done. Facing the class again, she took a bow and hustled back to her seat. Now, while keeping one eye and one ear on the next performer, Shay began to think about her answer to the professor's question. What would she do to help out the wizarding world. Picking up her quill, she began to write on her parchment. SPOILER!!: Parchment |
A silent acting activity? Etta wasn't too pleased. Why did their activities involve creative arts forms lately? Singing in muggle studies and now, acting in this class? What was the point? How was this going to help their future? Obviously, her career wasn't going to involve anything remotely connected to acting so.. what was all this? Or maybe she was just not in the mood for this right now. She considered not participating at all but she didn't want to lose points because of it. She simply waited and watched as her classmates acted out arious characters from the past before her gaze turned towards the black board. Which character did she want to act out? After a few moments of contemplation, she decided to pick Hermione Granger. It would be simple and quick.. right? Trying not to flush and look terribly embarrassed, she quickly got up and moved to the front of the class.. just wanting to get this over with as soon as possible. Okay.. now, what did she have to do? Oh, yeah. Hermione Granger was known for her SPEW badges.. right? She looked serious and concerned while she pretended to hand out badges to everyone... but not every person would be interested, right? She tried giving one to an imaginary person but expressed disappointment when he didn't accept it but she still looked determined.. determined that she was fighting for a cause and it was the right thing to do. She pretended to hand out badges to a couple of more imaginary people before quickly rushing back to her seat.. her face flushed bright red. That was terrible. Ugh.. she just wasn't good at all this. Etta plopped down at her desk, pulling out a parchment and quill. How would she contribute to the wizarding world? Huh. That required some serious thought. Um.. she had many ideas and thoughts but one in particular stood out. Something that was related to what she wanted to do in the future. SPOILER!!: parchment |
Olivia, who loved to act, okay, OKAY, didn't immediately move from her seat. Though getting awarded those five extra points had eased some of the nasty tension at the base of her skull, the blonde was now faced with the task of trying to figure out which historical figure she wanted to portray. With the added limitation of it needed to be a silent performance. That was going to be a serious challenge as so many historical witches and wizards weren't remembered for things that would be recognizable without the backtrack of speech. Resolving herself to watch the others act out their scenes before she settled on anyone, Liv pulled a clean sheet of parchment and began scribbling down ideas. Remember there were no small roles, just small actors. Slowly getting to her feet, the blonde shook out her limbs before confidently moving to the front of the classroom. Though her mood was low, that was no reason for her not to keep her appearances. She was about to slay this, yes she was. Because she'd decided upon a witch that was both conventional and hilarious. Hopefully, it would inspire a laugh among her classmates. If not, well...whatever. They weren't that funny either. Hmph. ...but first, some preparation. Using her wand to summon a fish bow, the Gryffindor filled it halfway up with water. Hey, Professor Newton had said they were to be silent. She'd not once said anything about having props. So, here they were. Next, she'd carefully tangled up a bit of string, giving the impression of "worms". Hopefully? Eh, she was working with what little she had here, okay? So, for what wasn't obvious at this point, use your imagination! Was that everything, then...? Oh, a towel. She'd needing one of those for after. Oh, better yet... Slipping out of her school robe, Liv set it to the side, having decided to just dry it after she was finished here. No tricks, just treats. NOW...was that all?! Yes? Yes. Good. Lights. Camera. ACTION! To set the scene, Olivia pretended to be hard at work pruning her plants. Tra la la. It was just a normal day. Just a normal day for a normal woman who regularly taste-tested her work. She demonstrated this but silently picking up the invisible clippings, only to bring them to her nose, before popping them into her mouth. Mm, TASTY PLANTS....However, after having done this with the rolled up ball of string (which was meant to resemble worms), the blonde began to gasp dramatically for air. GASP. GASP. GAAAAAAAASP! She couldn't breath!!!! Was she suddenly choking on what she'd just ate?! Pretending to claw at her throat, desperately hoping for some air....she eventually lumbered over to the awaiting bowl of water. THERE WAS FLAILING AND she was properly turning red!!!! QUICK!! SOMEONE HELP.... But then...quite suddenly she misstepped and drove her head down into the bowl, soaking her entire head!!!!!! BUT IT WAS FINE...because...she could suddenly breath. Breathing....breathing is wonderful. Yep, doing the breathing thing.... With a short laugh, Olivia pulling her head out of the bowl and reached for her robe, wrapping it like a turban around her sopping wet hair. "Hello, my name is Elladora Ketteridge, and I'm a plantoholic." Hello, Elladora.... "Gillyweed, anyone?" ....And that was it. Tada. Anyway, about that essay....Collecting some parchment after having soaked up most of the water from her hair, the blonde set to work on writing out an essay on being the change she wanted to see in the world...or whatever the quote was.. It wasn't the most riveting thing to ever be written in life, but it'd fulfilled the assignment requirements, nonetheless. SPOILER!!: Parchment |
From her vantage point at the back of the room, Sophie tried her best to pay attention to the presentations of the others. It was hard, though, because she could see just how close her turn was. Time seemed to fly in leaps and bounds and before she knew it, her turn had arrived. As she stood with shaky legs and a pounding heartbeat, Sophie could feel every eye in the classroom turn to her. She cautiously made her way to the front, doing all she could to keep herself upright. When she finally reached the front of the room, she turned to face the other students. After clearing her throat, she said softly, "I will be acting out the scene where Harry Potter saves his cousin from the dementors, because he made the world a better place then by putting somebody else above himself." Now to set the stage. She removed her cloak and draped it ominously over a chair. "A dementor," she whispered, waving the edges of the cloak back and forth to make it look like it was flying. Next, she carefully positioned a second chair near her stand-in dementor. "This is Dudley, Harry's Muggle cousin." Lastly, she drew a lightning bolt down her forehead with a bit of chalk dust from the rest of the chalkboard. "And I will be portraying Harry," she finished. All that was left now was the hardest part. She had to actually act it out. She imagined Dudley cowering in fear as the dementor creeped closer and closer, its long fingers reaching out to grasp his neck. Then she jumped out as Harry, wand held high as if to ward off any evil. She kicked the cloaked chair backwards to show that Harry had prevailed before assisting "Dudley" off of the stage with a bashful bow. Sophie returned to her seat, still trembling violently from the anxiety of being the center of attention. Despite the uncontrollable quaking of her hand, she made a valiant attempt to write out her assignment. SPOILER!!: Parchment |
Rosalyn had to say that she was really enjoying watching her students. Of course she was, they were quite the actors and actresses! To say that she was impressed was an understatement. It was hard to avoid applauding after each one, but somehow she managed. It might distract them too much and she did not want that to happen. "Wonderful!" she said as everyone had finished. "Simply wonderful!" Unfortunately it was time to wrap up. "Class is over, so if you would finish up your writing, you can hand it in and leave. Have a good rest of your day." Smiles all round. OOC: Thanks for attending everyone! Class is now over, but I shall leave the thread open for a bit longer for if people want to post wrapping up. |
catch up and good bye :3 A scene. A scene. A SCENE. ONE. SINGULAR. HOW WAS HE MEANT TO PICK JUST ONE SCENE TO PLAY FROM THE AMAZING LIFE THAT WAS HIS IDOL?! Like...no...it just couldn't be done. That was like asking a niffler which piece of gold was it's favorite, you know? Which basically meant that the first half of his classmates' performances were spent with the cogs in the second year's head turning and turning and turning some more because just HOW was he meant to pick ONE thing?!?! Of course, the first thing that popped to mind was a certain mating dance that both saved Jacob Kowalski's life but also returned a certain Erumpent back to his suitcase. Really, any reenactment of his recapture of his escaped creatures was significant and MEANINGFUL, but Derf struggled to pick just ONE. And besides, Emmeline had already done one of those with the niffler sooooooooo he was just gonna have to pick something else. The capture of Gellert Grindelwald. THAT was pretty significant...but so was his handling of Obscurus...oh oh and the whole confidential Ministry of Magic programme to wrangle Ukrainian Ironbellys...OR his immigration check in when he road that ship to America...or or...OOOOOOOR...holy flaming salamanders HOW was he going to choose?! Ultimately he decided to go for something action PACKED and took a note from Olivia's book and pulled a chair out from one of the desks and set it in the middle of the space. To help set the stage, he traced the outline of a person in the chair...and then figured he should use something for a prop there so he removed his outer robe and draped it over the chair. Tina Goldstein everyone! The Hufflepuff then began rolling around on the floor in front of the chair all sluggishly and dramatically, flailing his arms and legs and making all sorts of grotesque looking faces and such because AMERICAN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT GOO! Once he was SURE - in his head at least - that people got the gist of this, he scrambled back to his feet and outlined too other people before taking his formal stance as THE one and ONLY Newt Scamander looking all falsely forlorn with his hands behind his back because HANDCUFFED. Standing still for a bit, he wiggled his arm and used his eyes to follow the movement of his invisible bowtruckle as the lock on his cuffs was picked and VIOLA SET FREE. OH OH OH he probably had another prop to help with this..... YES YES YES HE HAD A YOYO! The Hufflepuff used his yoyo to as his SWOOPING EVIL and made it ciiiiiiiiiiircle around the chair. He did that a few times while making all kids of dramatic gestures as Newt for Tina to JUMP and TRUST HIM before the second year switched gears and became the Swooping Evil himself and fleeeeeeeeew around the chair. With one final pass, he skillfully pulled his robes off the chair and TOSSED them into the air because she was JUMPING and then scurried back around to catch the robes before they hit the ground. He then proceeded to run around the room flourishing his yoyo around into he was FREE! Okay...so it wasn't really the most signification scene of his hero's life to reenact...but it seemed sort of relevant given things? Yes? No? Maybe? Probably not. He had panicked. Back in his seat and grabbing a piece of parchment, Derf set to writing this paragraph of sorts. But really..what all COULD a second year do to make a world of a difference? Well, he only knew how to be him...so that was what he would write about. Or something. SPOILER!!: parchment Satisfied, sort of, with his paragraph, the Hufflepuff stood and turned it in to Professor Newton with a grin. "Bye profes-ss-sor!" he chirped before collecting his things and heading out of the classroom. |
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