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Post by JinAh on Apr 11, 2011 21:59:43 GMT -6
(note: Willur, read the "Clubs" forum post thing)
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Post by Losi on Apr 11, 2011 22:13:04 GMT -6
Charms was up first! Yay, my favorite class! It wasn't such a bad schedule, not really. There would be my Pufflehuff friends, and Laura and Katie and Willow and Kenna and Professor Aswyno and my wand and me learning to do awesome things. Yay!
We all joined in the sunny classroom, sitting at our desks eagerly and looking at the front of the classroom to wait for the teacher. I was right next to Willow. Laura and Sonia made a pair, Katie and Kenna made a pair, and Bridgette and Adella made a pair. Edmund was sitting next to a kid named Nathan Mayfield, and they seemed to be having a fairly good conversation; good as far as that it seemed to keep going at a good pace. Nathan was looking a bit resigned about something or other and Edmund was looking cheerful but pretty nervous nonetheless. I looked over the class some more and noticed Cameron slumping in his seat and already looking bored.
"Alright, alright, settle down, class," said Aswyno airily as he strode in, and we all fell (almost) silent.
"Welcome back to Hogwarts everyone let's have a good year," he said quickly, "and now let's begin. How many of you know the Levitation Charm?"
Most of us raised our hands, but he chose a Gryffindor girl at the other end of the classroom.
"Miriam, what are the words for that particular incantation?"
"Wingardium leviosa, sir," she said smartly.
"Good. Would you demonstrate that with this book here on my desk?"
She nodded, bit her lip, and aimed her wand at the book with a swish and a flick. It started lifting upwards.
"Very good. Now, bring that book towards you."
She flicked her wand towards herself, but the book just dropped back onto the desk with a THWACK. It sounded rather like Will's head.
Miriam looked a bit frustrated.
"Don't worry, Miriam, that wasn't supposed to work. You see, wingardium leviosa is very good when you just want to lift things up in the air, but not for moving them around in it. So today I'll teach you the spell that'll allow you to do that."
We learned locomotor, and I was looking forward using it elsewhere.
"Have a foot on practical uses for that charm for next Tuesday!" he said as we ran out, and I scrambled to get my quill out while standing and walking and holding all of my other things at the same time. I had to write all my assignments down or else I'd forget them. But alas, my ink fell on the floor and spilled all over the floor.
"Oh!" I moaned.
"Don't fret, I'll clean that up." Aswyno swished his wand over the floor, and the ink disappeared. He looked up at me and nodded. "Simple mistake," he assured.
"Thanks!" I smiled gratefully.
I was about to walk off again when he seemed to remember something.
"Oh, Charlotte, would you take this notice to put up on your house bulletin? I have to go elsewhere for some business tonight and won't have the time to do it myself, so I'm getting students to do it for me."
I took the sheet of parchment, glanced at it, smiled, and put it in my bag.
"I will, Professor."
"Thanks," he said distractedly, and went back to his desk to prepare for his next class.
I kept smiling as I walked out. Choir tryouts! How fun. I'd been in choir all three years previously, and was looking forward to being in it again.
Next up, divination!
ooc/ Will continue in the morning...
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Post by Teh Zu Person on Apr 12, 2011 21:31:08 GMT -6
(Vi! I'm taking Arithmancy D: Also... I guess for the seating chart I'll sit by Milo. And one more thing: where are we? I wrote about 9 paragraphs through your post then went to check the schedule and I have no idea what's going on! )
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Post by JinAh on Apr 12, 2011 21:43:45 GMT -6
(Kris, you'd only have Arithmancy on Thursday if you had Ancient Runes as your other elective, because otherwise you'd have Arithmancy on M/W. I'm pretty sure we're at Thursday evening/afternoon right now, which is September 2.)
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Post by Losi on Apr 12, 2011 22:52:34 GMT -6
Bridgette and I took each other's arms and did our traditional skip to divination together. It wasn't the most useful class, but it was fun, and Bridgette was there, so I took it. I might have taken arithmancy, but I thought Divination was much more fun. Don't get me wrong, I love numbers, and I'm kind of a math geek, but Bridgette didn't really have anyone else to sit with in that class.
We ran up the stairs and flew into the classroom, almost knocking over an annoyed Emily Bloemquist and startled Agnes Elton.
"Watch where you're going," said Emily with a peeved expression, but it softened soon enough.
"Sorry," I said, grinning. We all took our seats next to each other and waited for Marchand.
Instead, came a voice.
"I SEE INTO THE FUTURE."
A few giggles, mostly apprehensive or amused glances.
"THE PLANETS AND THE STARS WHISPER TO ME... THEY TELL ME THAT A CERTAIN DIVINATION CLASS WILL SOON BE EATEN BY A NASTY HORNTAIL DRAGON. OH, HOW DREADFUL...."
"Professor Marchand, come on out already," said one girl, peering behind a curtain and rolling her eyes.
"PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN."
"Professor Marchand...."
"Well I have to do something special at the beginning of the year, don't I?" he said, revealing himself. "Anyways, onto the lesson."
Bridgette looked excited. This was her best class, right along with astronomy. It was the one thing she was good at, in her opinion, and she always looked forward to Divination days.
"To kick off the year, we'll be studying tea leaves," he strode around the room, "and how they can help us predict things with omens and portents. Who can tell me the difference between an omen and a portent?"
Bridgette's hand shot up in the air*.
"Yes, Miss Chapney?"
"Both omens and portents are signs of something happening in the future, but portents tend to be of a greater scale and are more often predicting things turning for the worse."
"Very good, Miss Chapney! Ten points to Hufflepuff, that was a difficult question. Now, onto how to prepare the tea...."
He showed us how to prepare tea, and then drain all of the tea out. Then we did a certain ritual thing or whatever, and then looked in our books for what symbol we needed.
With the help of Bridgette, I predicted that I soon was going to meet someone or something strange and dangerous, and apparently my doom.
"Oh no!" I cried in mock-dismay. "Whatever shall I do?"
I shook my fists at the ceiling.
"I defy you, stars!"
Emily and Bridgette didn't get it, but Agnes chuckled and I smiled at her appreciatively. She responded by looking very intently into her teacup.
*Hermione-style.
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Post by JinAh on Apr 12, 2011 23:10:26 GMT -6
(bahaha OMENS AND PORTENTS. ('s a Hodgman joke.) Also, it would have been lovely if Marchand had said "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.")
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Post by Losi on Apr 13, 2011 18:06:42 GMT -6
xDD yes. I'll tell you what, I'll modify it so that it does.
Oh gosh... What if an owl with an outrageous French accent comes and swoops over us? And then we see an obese boy eating corn on the cob??? There is only one answer.
RAGNAROK.
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Post by Smonia on Apr 13, 2011 19:40:34 GMT -6
/ooc I HOPE ALL OF YOU READ MY EDITED POST BACK ON PAGE 6 BECAUSE IT'S BEAUTIFULLLL. sob. And well I'm not sure exactly what goes on in Muggle Studies but I shall try to guess, eh? ~~ /ooc
And it was time for Muggle Studies!
I didn't think I knew anyone in that class... in fact, it was kind of terrifying just thinking about not knowing someone in a class. Especially when our fourth year class was small. But I really liked Muggle Studies, especially since my mom was one. I really enjoyed learning about all the different philosophies and traditions and whatnot of Muggles. Just being in the class made me want to teach it, just because I liked it so much. And Professor Marigold was okay. She didn't give us homework. We just had to study. This was cool with me.
I walked into the room, and immidiately saw Will and Edmund and Laura! Thank goodness! So much for being alone! Huffah! I went over to their table, avoiding some of the piles of belongings of others strewn all over the ground. "Hi, guys," I said, and plopped my stuff down on the desk next to Laura's.
"Oh look, it's Sonia," exclaimed Will. "Did you enjoy your first class? How was it? Aswyno-y?"
"I enjoyed it muchly, thank you," I smiled and patted my hair. "Edmund can tell you about the tomfoolery that took place in Charms."
Will looked at Edmund. "Well? Anything interesting?"
Edmund didn't seem to care to answer very much so Will tried harder. He grabbed Edmund's apple and jar of caramel. "I'll do anything," he moaned. "Anything! Just tell me what happened in Charms! I'll be your caramel-dipping bitch! JUST TELL ME!" (/ooc kay guys that doesn't count as me cursing. That was Will. XD/ooc)
Laura looked at Will with annoyance and commenced tapping her nails. I thwacked Will upside the head. "Shut up, you nimrod! People are watching! And nothing really interesting happened in Charms, anyway!"
Edmund put his arm around Will. "Hey, you're already my caramel-dipping bitch." This prompted Will to unscrew the caramel and feed Edmund a caramel-dipped apple. I swooned with shippage... such bromance! I couldn't take it! During break, I promised myself, I would doodle these guys as a couple. It was kind of adorable.
"Lauuuuraa," I whispered to her.
"Whaaaaat."
"Aren't those guys adorable together?! Like, bromance!"
"I guess... personally, Nathan Mayfield is really hot. And Horatio Overton. I'd pay to see that," she giggled. "And will those two cut it out?! The Maragold is gonna come in any minute!"
Thankfully, Will and Edmund were finished with the apples and caramel by the time professor Maragold walked into the room. "Hello, fourth years! Nice to see you all again... looking healthy, I see." She went to the flippy-blackboard thing and picked up some chalk. "Everyone, turn to page 147 in your books." We obeyed. The Muggle Studies book was quite newly published - from earlier that year, I thought.
Once we finished reading the selection, the Professor continued. "Now, we're going to have a short quiz over general things from last year. I hope you've been studying. Break is nice, but one must always strive to learn as much as they can in and out of school, eh?"
She went around the room handing out quiz papers, leaving a scent of frankensence and myrrh in her wake. The quiz was pretty okay. There were one or two questions about Muggle landmarks and random things that I wasn't too sure about.
/ooc Elena is bugging me to get off so I guess I'll finish this later. C:
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Post by kiyume on Apr 13, 2011 21:24:15 GMT -6
Finally, Friday. I had somehow managed to get through the week without setting more clothing on fire, forgetting to bring a textbook, losing Eva (sometimes I swear she TRIES to get lost, but her tortoiseshell coat makes her pretty easy to spot), or being violently homesick. I considered this an accomplishment--usually, upon coming back, I felt a little jolted from reality, but right now I felt like I was exactly where I belonged. The place that was exactly where I belonged, at the moment, happened to be sitting right next to Jinjin, with all my other Gryffindor and Ravenclaw friends sitting in close proximity. Professor Selachii had made it clear that she did not mind us sitting near our friends--so long as our friendship yielded productivity. And we all knew that somehow, she knew who irritated who the most. Therefore I was determined to let as little nonsense as possible escape my lips/fingertips/wherever nonsense might come out. But as I turned to face JinAh, I realized that I hadn't tickled her in forever. "Will--ow--st-o-o-pppp!!!" JinAh whispered while silently laughing. "Okay," I giggled. Well, I'd TRY to let as little nonsense out as possible. There wasn't even a chance for class to settle down. Professor Selachii began her class with a resonating voice. "Welcome, fourth years, to Transfiguration. You all should know what I expect from you by now. You'll come into class, learn all that you can learn, and become at least adequately proficient in this subject--if you follow instructions. Failure to follow my directions or a willing lack of participation will not only bring down your grade, but it will also hinder you from mastering one of the greatest arts a wizard can know. Some of us are more talented than others, true, but we will never know who has skills and who does not if you don't put forth an effort." Even though Professor Selachii could be tough, even cruel, she was inspiring. "This year, as those of you who have wisely skimmed through your textbooks will already know, we will be focusing mainly on cross-species transfiguration. We'll start with something basic." With that, she lifted the cover from a cage of small hamsters. "We'll be transforming these into rabbits. Turn your books to page thirty two for the spell. Make sure you recite the incantation exactly as it appears in the book--you may end up getting the poor creatures permanently stuck in their changed states. It may not matter as much with closely related species, but as we move along--you'll see!" A faint smile crossed her lips. There was no telling what horrible in a hilarious way sort of things had happened in her class. JinAh nudged me--a thought had crossed her mind. "These spell books don't tell us how to change the specific species--for example, from this certain hamster to that certain rabbit." "I sort of thought about that too...which is why I brought my taxonomy book with me! I got it for a Muggle class...anyway, it has the classification of most known species. Let's see," I said as I flipped through the pages. "Here, rabbits. I suppose we should just add the species name onto the end of the spell." "Shouldn't we ask Professor Selachii first?" "I guess...but what if she takes my book? Besides, if we surprise her, she might like us more." I whispered our plan to Laura, Will, Vi, Katie, and Rachel, and then handed the taxonomy book to them. We all agreed that we would just do the typical domestic rabbit. Holding our wands exactly as the textbook showed, we pointed them at the hamsters on our desks. " Lapifors cuniculus" Instantly, the tiny furball in front of me changed into a tall white rabbit with what i could have sworn were transparent pink eyes. JinAh's was huge--the size of a large tomcat, possibly even a smallish dog. Will's was one of those cute black-and-white ones, Rachel and Vi both got long-haired angoras, Laura SOMEHOW got a solid blue rabbit (what kind of mutation is THAT?!?!), and Katie, the lucky girl, got this bundle of joy: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/IMG_0842.JPGThis, while everyone else in class was looking pretty proud of their plain old brownish gray transformed creatures. "Oh. Crap." WHY DID I DOOOO THIISSSSSS When Selachii came to the niche my friends and I inhabited (which was, of course, near the front of the class, her eyes widened in shock and then some unreadable expression passed over her face. "The seven of you will stay after class." Those simple words sent a rarer-than-rare blush to my face, while Jinjin elbowed me in the ribs. But I knew she was less mad at me and more mad at herself for letting me do something crazy. She was, after all, my surrogate mother. Will, as usual, made light of the situation after Selachii had gone on. "You know, we're going to have to work on getting the breed right. I was really hoping for something more like Katie's...thing. It looks like a mini lion!" "SHUT UP WILL!" we all exclaimed. For the first time in a long time, he looked kinda sorry he'd said anything. After class, we were stuck to our seats, waiting for our punishment and also being tortured by the tantalizing smell of whatever was for lunch. Selachii swept us all with that same unfathomable expression. Then, she burst out laughing. Wait a second. LAUGHING? I must have inhaled too much of that intoxicating smell. But everyone around me had the same bewildered expression. "You all look as though it were Judgment Day and I were the executioner! I may be intimidating, but I certainly WON'T bring you to any mortal harm. What you did today in class was inexcusable--I'm deducting fifty points from both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw." If at all possible, I think my bottom was beginning to melt into my chair. "But your cleverness...and your daring...very much impressed me. I don't think I've seen anything that entertaining i years." Well, I guess our fear entertained her. "Therefore, I'm adding seventy points to each of your houses. But next time, you will ask before performing a variation on a spell. Is that clear?" She looked straight at me. Goshdarnit, how did she know I was the one who didn't want to ask? I mean, I didn't FORCE my friends not to ask (although I did glare at them threateningly) I hoped I wasn't on her semi-bad side now. But she didn't look angry. "You're dismissed."
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Post by Losi on Apr 13, 2011 22:11:37 GMT -6
Wills, not to be persnickety, but I it's actually Thursday, and it's still our first day of school. xD Lovely post, though.
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Post by JinAh on Apr 13, 2011 23:41:31 GMT -6
/ooc. Not enough time for a full post, so I thought I'd just put something short and which requires little research.
Vi and I were sitting in the library, catching in on some last-minute studying. Well, Vi was. I became thoroughly annoyed with the textbook in about five minutes.
"Viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii," I said. "We know this. Selachii's not going to spring a pop quiz on us over the whole book on the first day of class."
"I wouldn't put it past her," Vi said, feverishly memorizing the five principal exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration.
"VI. CHILL." I grabbed her shoulders and shook them. "C'mon, let's go exploring."
"But we have class in twenty-minutes-"
"Then it can be a twenty-minute adventure. Maybe we'll pick up fellow adventurers along the way."
As it turns out, we didn't, but the adventure was weird enough as it was.
"Here's a door," I said on the third floor. "Let's go through it."
"I can't believe we never noticed it before," Vi said. "It's the very first one. Also, whose room is it? We don't want to get in trouble."
"It's break, Vi. We're allowed to be places." I pulled open the door. It looked like a fairly empty classroom. We stepped inside, and immediately the room spun and turned round.
"Well, that was strange."
"Indeed."
The room now had four numbered doors. One was shaped like a circle, two was shaped like a triangle, three was shaped like a normal rectangle, and four was shaped like a pentagon.
"Ooh," I said. "I like pentagons. Let's go through the pentagon."
"Which one did we come in through?"
"Does it matter?"
"What if we get lost!?!?"
"Then someone will come find us. This is Hogwarts, after all. C'mon." I pulled her through the pentagon-shaped door.
This one led us to a room where there were three slides. They were numbered, as well - one was yellow, two was red, and three was blue.
"Let's go through three," Vi said. "Ravenclaw pride!"
We slid down the blue slide and dropped into the room we had just slid out of.
"Er." Vi looked up - there was nothing there except a normal-looking ceiling. "Specialis Revelio!" she said.
Nothing happened.
"This is weird," she said.
"But fun."
This time, we went down the red one.
The same thing happened - we were back in the slide room.
"Well, by process of elimination, I believe that we should try the yellow one now," Vi said.
"Well done, Detective Nguyen," I said, and we hopped into the yellow slide.
This one dropped us lightly onto a rotating thing ... kind of like those rotating playground things in muggle playgrounds. My ability to describe things accurately is failing me.
There were five numbered platforms we could step off onto.
"Let's go through four this time, because there are four houses," Vi said. We attempted to do so, but the wheel was going faster than we expected, and we ended up on platform 5. A trapdoor opened, and we dropped onto a squishy mushroom.
Vi poked it. "This feels like ... memory foam," she said. It was wonderfully squishy. There were similarly large mushrooms all around us, with numbers on them. I hopped onto one that said 8 - and was bounced right back onto the mushroom we had fallen onto, which had no number.
"Wait," Vi said, and we looked at each other, realization dawning in our eyes.
We hopped onto the nine mushroom first, and then one that said one that said two, and so on until we reached a red door. We opened it, and were sucked into a white room.
When we opened our eyes (the light had been very bright, and the wind very strong) we were sitting in a room full of pies. There were cherry pies, lemon meringue pies, pecan pies, apple pies, pumpkin pies, sweet potato pies, meat pies, pretty much every kind of pie you could possibly imagine. On the wall above a low wooden door were the words:
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WIN THE GAME!
"Er," said Vi.
"Are these pies for us?"
"I assume so."
There was a piece of paper by the door. On it, it said:
CONGRATULATIONS, CLEVER WITCH/WIZARD/WITCHES/WIZARDS! YOU WILL EACH BE ALLOWED TO TAKE ONE (1) PIE FROM THIS ROOM. THANK YOU FOR PLAYING.
We each selected a pie, and walked through the door and into the Ravenclaw Common Room.
"Hey," said Rachel. "Where were you guys? We were looking for you all throughout break. WAIT ARE THOSE PIES?"
Vi and I looked at each other and shrugged.
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Post by Losi on Apr 14, 2011 20:36:41 GMT -6
Alright.... Do we want to meet all of our teachers and then have the adventures start happening? I could skip a couple of days. What do you guys say?
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Post by Smonia on Apr 14, 2011 20:58:13 GMT -6
I say skip a couple of days. Because truthfully, just staying in class kinda puts a cap on what kinds of adventures could happen C:
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Post by JinAh on Apr 14, 2011 21:00:44 GMT -6
I think we should post brief summaries of the rest of the days, and of any interesting stuff that goes on. I mean, we only have the rest of Thursday and half of Friday to go through.
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Post by Saki on Apr 14, 2011 23:28:19 GMT -6
"Alright, alright kids. Quiet down..." William Black started to the edge of the "classroom", as he liked to call it. The Care of Magical Creatures teacher was followed by his trusted white companion. The fox took long strides to keep up with the man she was trailing, taking no precautions to hide her presence while outside. As Black set up his aura of instruction several girls around me let out swoons.
Care of Magical Creatures. It was at this point that I wasn't quite sure why I had chosen this class over ancient runes, but I did like the more hands-on approach of this class, so I couldn't really complain. I was standing near the front of the crowd, eyes on the teacher looking somewhat focused, for whatever reason. I eyed Ninu, the white fox, taking in all of the glances shot at our teacher by other girls, and watched her suppress a growl. It was kind of fun how Ninu always seemed carefree, never really taking her eyes off of William Black, quietly watching from the sidelines. That is, until the classes rolled around where she took it upon herself to be on guard. Every small glance at the teacher by a female earned one small glare, or one flash of teeth. Usually unnoticeable, but to those who paid enough attention it was extremely easy to spot. No wonder there were all of those rumors...
"Ah! Saki!" I turned to find Adella with Wyatt in tow, and he seemed to be grabbing...Shane? "I thought you would take this class." "Oh, hey. And hey Wyatt. And hey...Shane...Why exactly are you here? I mean, knowing Adella she probably took this class to get a 'closer look' at the teacher, Wyatt probably got dragged here, and...I...have no idea why you would be here. You don't exactly strike me as an animal person." Shane loosened Wyatt's hold on him and straightened his tie, walking formally up to Adella.
"It's only natural that I should be here with my princess." He said as he grabbed for Adella's hand, probably to do something like kiss it, only to be gently slapped in the face. Wyatt looked highly amused, and Adella quickly turned her attention to the teacher, already starting his hour-or-so intro to the class. Shane had developed a small(loose term) crush on Adella in second year, after she had several repeated instances of losing things, which in turn got him quite the reputation as an excellent finder. Even Slytherins look for him in times of lost items. It's only natural that Shane would follow Adella to the ends of the earth for his venture of love. As he so delicately put it in third year, "I will follow my princess to the ends of the earth for my venture of finding the one thing that I have no confidence in my ability to uncover. In this so corrupted world there is only one thing that I will take as a challenge to find! And that is...lo-" It was at that point that he passed out from a jellybean overdose. And then some fellow Hufflepuffs dragged him off the table he was standing on and carried him to the dorm. It's been a hot topic ever since.
"So I'll be teaching you..." Black continued with his intro, his voice sort of trailing off. Several girls in the class looked as if their minds had gone from his lecture to planning their future weddings with the man. That is, if their minds were ever on the lecture in the first place. I glanced at Ninu, death glares practically projected onto the class.
"I don't get it." Wyatt whispered from behind me, trying not to be caught talking. Not that the teacher would care all that much, I mean that intro is about as old as he is, but Wyatt hated to be obvious while breaking rules. "What's so great about him?" I turned to look at him, his face looking puzzled. Adella looked absolutely furious at the boy, but she shrugged it off to look more at the teacher. "He's average." "Yeah, he is. But he's funny, and girls like that and stuff and reasons and blah blah blah." I said, matching Wyatt's whisper. "Is someone jealous?" I asked, poking his shoulder. "Psh, as if. Seriously though, these girls need to learn how to try for their own league." "...Did you just compliment the girls or the teacher?" "..." "..." "Still. Just because he cracks a few jokes doesn't make him all that." Wyatt looked irritated. "Do we need to start a 'Love Wyatt Not Funny Teachers' campaign?" "Shut up." "All joking aside, I do believe the man is quite...well he's a bloke, really. Not worth my time." A voice spoke from beside us, and we turned to see Milo casually looking ahead, arms crossing his chest and foot tapping in most impatient way.
"Why are you here?" Wyatt asked, clearly as confused as I was at the fact that the quiet and studious Milo Walden was gracing us with his presence. "I have a bet going with my sister." He said, nose practically shooting into the air. "You don't seem like the type that would take this class at all. I would have figured you'd have gone to something more...indoorsy." I said. "Well clearly not, young...Adams...yeah that doesn't really work." Milo said, trying to find a different tactic to making me feel looked down upon. "Bwaha. Keep trying, young Walden." I said. "I have to agree with you there though, Milo. He's a bloke at best." Wyatt joined in again, changing the subject." "Talking about the teacher again, are we?" I asked, kind of bored with the subject. "Well..." Wyatt could tell I was bored with the conversation, and looked to Milo, who seemed to have gone back to listening to the "the bloke".
"And so...in short...that's what you'll be learning this year, fourth years." There was a small applause from the not-very-large crowd, and a standing-while-standing ovation from some of the girls. It included some clapping, some waving, a little bit of swooning, and quite a bit of jumping. Milo looked absolutely disgusted and Wyatt seemed disappointed in humanity. I couldn't really blame him. Adella was practically clawing at other people's heads while trying to get attention from the teacher, earning an almost heart-breaking glance from Shane. Ninu looked as if she were about to explode.
"So...what class is next?"
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Post by Losi on Apr 14, 2011 23:32:40 GMT -6
Alright, I like the idea of brief summaries. Mention something in detail if anything interesting happens. How about we skip to lunch for now and then summarize the afternoon?
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Post by Katie on Apr 15, 2011 16:11:10 GMT -6
Curse week....I want it to begin. And yes I have not posted since tryouts but whatever, i was busy running and stuff. So yeah, lets get quidditch started up and we should have evil drama stuff also. Maybe that boy who messed with dementors?
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Post by laura on Apr 15, 2011 18:59:37 GMT -6
Finally, an elective class! I had Muggle Studies first, and I had no idea if there was going to be anyone to sit with, and I was excited to see Professor Marigold again. She had always been one of my favorite teachers, since she was sort of a hippie (a muggle idea she had told me about, and she had even introduced me to a fantastic muggle band -- the Beatles. I couldn't believe no one had told me about them before!)
When I walked in, I saw Edmund and Will horsing around so I plopped my stuff down next to them.
"Why hello, fair maiden!" Will said theatrically. "So glad to see you here today! Though, we were rather hoping we would get the class to ourselves today... Male bonding and all, you know." He gave a knowing look to Edmund, who nodded back, and they both looked at me.
"Am I... intruding?" I asked.
"No, you're not," Edmund said, giving me a smile to let me know that Will was just being (no surprise here) overdramatic.
Sonia pranced in with her halo of hair and thumped down next to me. "Hi, guys," she said.
"Oh look, it's Sonia," Will said cheerfully. "Did you enjoy your first class? How was it? Aswyno-y?"
"I enjoyed it muchly, thank you," Sonia said with a quick pat to her curly head. "Edmund can tell you about the tomfoolery that took place in Charms."
Will looked at Edmund expectantly. Edmund remained mute. "Well?" prodded Will. "Anything interesting?"
Edmund just smiled and shook his head, and Will decided more drastic measures were needed. I think it was something about dipping bitches in caramel? Or wait, no, that's not right. If that was it then Miriam Renault and Madeline Fremantle would be covered in caramel. It was about dipping APPLES in caramel, my bad. Anyway, there was lots of bromance and shippage, and I think we came to conclusion that Will was Edmund's caramel-bitch, or something.
"Lauuuuraa," Sonia hissed in my ear.
"Whaaaaat."
"Aren't those guys adorable together?! Like, bromance!"
I thought about it. "I guess... personally, Nathan Mayfield is really hot." I thought some more. "And Horatio Overton. I'd pay to see that." I chuckled evilly. "And will those two cut it out? The Marigold is gonna come in any minute!"
Luckily, the bitching, dipping, and shipping had wrapped by the time Marigold came in.
"Hello, fourth years! Nice to see you all again... looking healthy, I see." She picked up the chalk and started scribbling on the board. "Everyone, turn to page 147 in your books." I flipped through my book (Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy), admiring that new-book smell. We were learning about muggle jobs, like dentists and postal workers.
After we were done, Professor Marigold said, "Now, we're going to have a short quiz over general things from last year. I hope you've been studying! Break is nice, but one must always strive to learn as much as they can in and out of school, eh?"
I certainly had, my dad being a squib and therefore interested in all sorts of muggle-y things.
She handed out the quizzes, and I noticed as she wafted by the she was trailed by the interesting scent of frankincense and myrrh. The quiz wasn't too hard since it was over muggle landmarks, which always fascinated me. It was amazing that muggles were able to construct such things without the aid of magic. The Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, Egyptian pyramids, and other such things were easy to recall.
We handed in our quizzes, I was confident that I would make an O on it.
"Right then, class. You're dismissed," said Professor Marigold after we had all turned in our quizzes. As we filed out of the class, she stopped me briefly.
"Did you look up the band I told you about last year?" she asked with a sparkle in her eye.
"Yes!" I nodded enthusiastically. "The Beatles! They're wonderful. I think they're my favorite band!"
"I'm glad to hear that," she said with a wry smile. "See you next class."
I walked out and caught up with Will, Sonia, and Edmund. We had break for half an hour, so we set out in search of the rest of our posse.
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Post by JinAh on Apr 15, 2011 20:30:50 GMT -6
YAAAAAY BEATLES It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me
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Post by Vi on Apr 15, 2011 21:25:56 GMT -6
Transfiguration was normal, I suppose. Selachii was as strict and dictator-like as ever. There was a small quiz, which was fairly easy, and a small practical review, which involved a simple transfiguration that we had studied last year - transfiguring a teapot into a tortoise. Most of the Ravenclaws and a few of the Gryffindors were able to successful accomplish this, but quite a few people had their turtles breath steam and have teapot-like markings. Selachii seemed slightly displeased by this, but it was always rather hard to tell if she was pleased or not. The entire class was largely a review, and we went over Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration and its five Principal Exceptions, again. As the class neared its end, however, it was obvious what nearly everyone in the classroom was thinking. Almost time for fooooooooooood. Naturally, as Ravenclaw teenagers, our lives revolved around food, studies, and, for some, relationships.
Finally, after what seemed like forever and a day, the bell chimed for lunch, and the entire classroom disappeared in an instant, as if Selachii had mass Vanished her students. We tried to be civil as we marched down the stairs to the Great Hall, but everyone was too excited to walk that slowly.
Eventually, we had it to the Great Hall, where food was already waiting for us. Our Ravenclaw and Slytherin friends were already there, and quite a few of them were already stuffing themselves with decadent foodstuffs. Our Pufflehuff friends waved to us happily and Charlotte ran over to our table once we had sat down to say hi to us and her sister and her new best friend, presumably to ask them how their first classes of the day had been. I had never been a food person, and while some of my friends (read: Wiill and Rachel) eagerly ate anything and everything, I quickly swallowed a bowl of soup and a piece of bread before cracking open my copy of A History of Magic.
"Really, Vi? Are you really reading that now?" Rachel asked between mouthfuls of food. "I mean, yeah, it's interesting and all, but it's lunch. Lunch means that you get food. And thusly you eat food."
I think Will said something too, but it came out like muffled gobbledygook because his mouth was full.
ooc/ Okay I have to continue this later, sorry, I have to go to bed now.
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