Ash had mixed feelings on this. She loved dream analysis, but she hated dreaming. So she was curious to see how this would turn out. She almost had a smile on her face, which was actually pretty good if you had ever met Ash.

She selected a plain-looking journal at a seat in the front. She flipped to the inside cover. She would like the inside cover to be art in its own right.

ASH- The word was in large dripping letters, like it was written in blood.
Third year Ravenclaw- The words were tiny, inked neatly in blue underneath the name. It almost contradicted what she had written before.

Just looking at the inside cover made whoever owned the journal look like a complicated and hard-to-understand person. Which Ash was pretty much going for anyway. She shut the journal. It was a plain-looking black journal. That was about it. Ash pulled a small phoenix sticker out of her pocket (where did she get these things???) and put it right on the cover. There. That was good enough.

She looked around to see if any of her friends were nearby. Not yet. She seemed to be the first one there.

Dahlia hadn't been thrilled with the lesson that resulted in taking a potion and everyone napping. Anything that was purposely going to make her dream, she wasn't going to knowing take. Sorry but not sorry. The nightmares didn't needed an extra boost, they came all on their own without any assistance from anything. Therefore she hadn't taken the potion that day but the comfy pillow, dimmed lights and soft music had made it hard not to fall asleep anyhow.

Thankfully that was over and it was a new day. Lia entered the Divination room and smiled softly at Professor Euka. "Hello, Professor." Looking at the journals on each desk she found one that had several different colors on it all fading into the next color yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, pink, red. That was the one. She placed her bag on the chair so she could go get some of the different art supplies before sitting down.

Lia smiled at Ash in greeting as she walked past her desk to some different art things like some different colored glitter, tiny stickers, glue and markers. Returning to her desk she set everything on her desk, moved her bag underneath her seat and sat down. Opening the journal on the inside of the cover she drew a nice big Dahlia flower and in the center of it wrote Dahlia, 2nd year Ravenclaw nice and neat.

The Snakette wasn’t quite looking forward to this assignment. Heck, she was still on the fence about Divination but she wasn’t about to judge the assignment without knowing each detail about it. The first things that caught her eyes were the art supplies. Of course. Her interest soared and suddenly decided that maybe this wouldn’t be completely bad after all.

“Hi, Professor,’’ Claudine said by way of greeting. A quick look around and she spotted Ashley. “Hi.’’ She took up a seat beside the Ravenclaw and immediately got to work. Her name, house and year were traced out in pencil then green glitter was applied to each. Claudine took her time to draw some little snakes, filling each with a different colour.

It was a journal fit for a Slytherin.

"Well hello everyone. I hope you are doing well. We are going to just go over a few things about the first part of this project and then I will let you go on about your decorating." Professor Euka moved around her desk and smiled at all that were there. "Now as we have talked about so far this term dreams can have many different meanings, some of which you might not even realize, like if say you have a letter A coming up in your dreams, it could be because you are starting to move into something grand in your life. A new adventure that will be the best. Now seeing a letter A in your dream you might not even think twice and just find it silly, but things like this are why dream journals are so important." She loved the way the mind and divination worked. "I once had a tadpole keep showing up in the most random places and I didn't pinpoint it until my sister had told me she was pregnant with my nephew." She smiled at the memory thinking of Jackson.

"Anyway, for the first part of this project you will keep a journal for a month. Anytime you nap or sleep you will write down the journal entries. After a month we will discuss before coming back to do the second part of this little project." She really hoped they would enjoy both parts of the project, Meda was excited about it all.

"For now you can decorate your journals and ask any questions before we dismiss and go about our days."


OOC: Hello, hello! This is part one of our long term assignment. Anyone who would like to join while this project is going is more than welcome to jump right in, just please start with this part. I will post again in a day to move ones here along, but please, please if you want to join don't hesitate! <3

Charlie buzzed into the room. Divinations no matter how bizarre or creepy made her giddy. It was one of her strong subjects and she. constantly showed up and did the best she could which had been going well. Noticing the journal on a desk she walked over to one taking not of the third year Ravenclaw Ash had started drawing on her journal. Oh, blood that was a bit.... yeah she didn't even know she shook her head and smiled at Claudine before she took her own seat.

Taking her favorite set of pens out of her bag she set to writing her name in a metallic lavender as well as her house and year. It was simple but a statement. She stared at the blank cover and tried to decide what she wanted to put on it. Her black pen started drawing the outline of her star sign and the points on it before drawing different lines around it filling in the space. It felt just right.

"Hi Claudine!" Ash was a little bit busy decorating to see the people passing her, but Ash could see Claudine from her peripheral vision. She peeked at the other girl's decorating. "I like your journal. Very green. Very glittery. Love the snakes." She smiled. It might not have been obvious, but Ash LOVED glitter. It was everything she wished she could be- sparkly, happy, loved. When people thought of glitter, they didn't think "useless." They thought "I need this in my life." Ash wished she was like glitter. Sadly, wearing glittery eyeshadow did not make people like her more.

Was the professor talking? Something about tadpoles and babies. Subtleness? Something like that. Ash doubted there was much subtlety in her dreams. If her brain wanted her to feel something, then it was going to make it OBVIOUS. If she was scared of mirrors, she wouldn't see any pairs of twins or whatever. She would see a mirror. Because she was scared of mirrors, not twins. But whatever. Sure. Maybe the individual variations in her recurring nightmares could tell her something. But she doubted they would tell the future, unless the future was incredibly terrible and involved warped reality. So.

Ash raised her hand. "Do we have to write the dreams? Or can we draw the elements with captions? Also, is this a personal project or are we supposed to turn this in?" Ash felt sure that some people would be faking the project if they thought a teacher would see it. Personally, Ash wouldn't. If someone wanted to see her dreams, then they'd get what they asked for... what they were going to wish they hadn't asked for... but anyway. She had questions.

Glancing up, she was just in time to see Charlotte arrive. The Lioness received a grin in return. Hi, Charlotte. “Thanks,’’ Claudine replied to Ashley happily. That’s when she really took a good look at Ash’s journal. Her first thought was 'Wow. Look at the blood.' Of course it wasn’t blood but the effect was there. “I really like your sticker. Got any of other creatures?'’

Soon enough Euka got things started and Claudine temporarily abandoned searching for ideas of how to further decorate her journal. The sixth year was still skeptical of dreams and their interpretations. As far as she was concerned, dreams were just dreams. Right?

So.. basically they had to keep this journal for a month and make notes of their dreams. Detailed notes. That was probably the easy part.

Lia listened as Professor Euka spoke and walked around the room. She really didn't have any questions about what they would be doing, it was pretty self explanatory. A dream journal was just that. A way to keep track of her dreams. It was to hopefully give herself a way to make some sense of all the things that scared her most.

For now though, she was more than happy to sit at her desk and decorate the cover of her journal. She started with a dragon and then a thestral. Each were outlined in clear glue and then covered in glitter.

Meda walked around smiling at many of the journals as the children worked through this first part of the project. Checking time though she knew it needed to move along. See Ashley with a question she paused for a moment, "Oh of course I will be grading these on your effort. I don't want to pry into your personal and private worlds, but this is still a class project so I will be checking that you did the work." This was not to be a way to spy on any children, though it would be helpful if her niece took this class so she could see hers.

"Alright everyone, if you haven't completed your decorations you may take some with you, but it is time to go out and sleep." Laughing at her own joke she moved her wand so directions came on the board, "Just a reminder, You will be taking your dream journals with you wherever you go. If you take a nap you need it with you, if you are asleep at night it needs to be close by. Once you have woken from your sleep you will open to the newest page of your dream journal and write every detail you can remember. If you can't remember the dream or have had none you will mark this down as well. You will do this for a month before the next part of the assignment kicks off."

Was that all clear?

She really hoped it was, "Don't hesitate to come to my office if you need any help with anything."

OOC: So sorry I was slow with this. RL has been crazy and fun family style this week. I will put part two up in a day or so. Once I do you can have your character enter with their journals and in a spoiler put the links to your sleeping/journal posts. Rpers are encouraged to RP sleeping in common rooms, corridors, classrooms, Great Hall, and anywhere else around the castle. You will need to link at least three different times your character slept and woke to write in their dream journal. Your RP can be as detailed as you like with the dream going on and when you write out the dream journal. You can work with each other if students come to wake up or are napping in the same area.

ANYONE WANTING TO JUMP IN! Please jump right in starting here! I will watch all thread parts so you don't have to worry about coming late or missing out.

The fact that Euka was unwilling to pry into a bunch of teenagers’ lives earned the woman a point in Claudine’s good book. With that bit of reassurance, the sixth year set about adding a few more details to her journal: speckled snake eggs beside each snake. Now her decorating was complete.

Euka’s joke wasn’t that funny so Claudien couldn’t figure out why the woman was laughing. Should Claudine laugh? Would it earn her some bonus marks for her journal assignment? The girl didn’t bother. She didn’t need help getting more than satisfactory marks.

Having her journal with her at all times shouldn’t be a problem. After all, Claudine usually walked around with her sketchpad and wooden crayons almost everywhere anyway. The journal would just join them. Simple as 1, 2, 3. For now, there were no questions in relation to the assignment.

It was taking a WHIIILE for Lisa to decide just HOW she ought to decorate her dream journal. She had TONS of ideas and instantly wished she had Maya to help her decide on which idea would look the most aesthetically pleasing. Maya was good at aesthetics and planning and scrapbooking. She was crafty. Lisa was not. She could make origami cranes sand creatures but that was it……

She stared at the notebook in front of her for a while before deciding what and how to decorate it. She grabbed a couple of pieces of paper ranging from pastel pinks to purples to blues. She also grabbed som glitter because her dreams were fantastical and the clouds on her journal had to be cute. With those in front of her, she began drawing curly, fluffy cartoon clouds on then with a thick marker. Then she cut them out and then applied glitter to them.

Professor Euka was GOING to read her journal. Oh NO! Then she’d know all of her dark and fantastical secret dreams. Hopefully the Professor wouldn’t think too much about her imaginative dreams. She chuckled awkwardly before writing her name in Hangul on her journal. Maybe she ought to write in her native journal in her native language. “Can we write in multiple languages in our journals?”

And then it was time to get started!!

“Thanks Professor Euka!” Big beamy smile.

Tracking her sleep it felt a bit weird, but you know it was what it was right? At this point Charlie would do just about anything for Professor Euka because she liked Divination and wanted to learn as much about it as she possibly could. But, for now she would just have to be a good dream describer. That would be what she had to do. Sighing she put a few more lines on her journal before placing it in her bag. Maybe this wouldn't be that bad after all.

Watching the students finish up on their journals Meda had opened her own for a few moments to glance through something that her mind had wondered to right before class had started. She was trying to find the right page when she heard another question.



"I don't see why you couldn't write in another language. These are your journals, just know if I need to find a translation I might need to come and ask you." She wanted the journals to be personal, so she felt comfortable with that requestion.

Checking on Charlie she didn't seem to have any questions and was looking like she was doing well on the decorating, so Meda turned back to the page she had been looking for.

Honestly, he'd taken the majority of the class just to write his name down neatly above his year and house. Evan Nam; Third year Ravenclaw was a very simple thing, and yet he wanted it to be so carefully scripted it looked artistic and perhaps hard to read at a glance. This assignment was not something he was looking forward to. He didn't like to remember his dreams, and now he was keeping a book of them all? Yes, he could see where it could help with Divination and all of his independent studies into muggle psychology but... that didn't really make him anymore excited to do it.

Once class was dismissed, he gathered his book and the rest of his belongings and hurried out of the room with the rest of the student. However he did not forgot his manners, and paused for a moment at the doorway. "Thank you, Professor Euka. See you next class." And then scurried out with the rest of them.