Professor Dione
April 21, 2005 11:00 PM
Oh no...the infamous Cravens have invaded my room by Professor Dione
OOC: *laughs* So you are the infamous Cravens the rest of the faculty warned me about. Well, my character's last name is pronounced "Di-OWN." Hopefully, you can make up a good nickname for me.Oh, and about the class taking place during the day, there will be times when it will be at night to observe the stars and planets, but only in those situations.
BIC
As Dione finally reached the far side of the room, her usually emotionless eyes widened slightly as she read the names "Ash" and "Sorrel" across the top. The Craven twins...She had already been warned about their antics, and she was curious about how they would answer the questions. The fact that they worked together didn't bother her much, just as long as they didn't collaborate on an actual exam. Besides, the answers were sure to be more interesting if both put their minds to it.
Surprising how Uranus could be a part of so many answers, but still referring to the same overused, clichéd pun, though the wording in then answer for number two was an excellent usage. Some of the answers she could recognize as allusions to various forms of Muggle entertainment, though she wasn't well-versed in it due to the fact that she was a Pureblood. This would have been a bit of a shock since she included a question about a Muggle playwright, but in her opinion, ignoring the contributions Muggles have made to astronomy as well as any area of study, was just plain stupid. Another pun on Uranus...and various twists on other questions.
Surprisingly, she did not look down on the twins in scorn for their facetious take on the pretest. On the contrary, she actually laughed, which was almost strange since she was usually so staid and serious. Though they did not take interest in the pretest itself, they had at least answered in such a way that was creative and humorous.
"Not correct at all, but it's obvious that wasn't your aim on this assignment. I've never seen the pun on Uranus used in so many ways on one piece of parchment. Just know that I won't let you work together on tests after this, and sadly, I will have to take points off for such answers. But if you'd like to add some comments under the actual answer on a test or homework, that would be acceptable."\n\n
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Saul Pierce
December 12, 2006 10:38 AM
Thanks, I had practice a lot to get it just right by Saul Pierce
Saul's eye was drawn to the Prefect badge on the girl's robes which, combined with her Pecari badge, positively identified her as Mia Something-That-Starts-With-A-K. She explained what was going on and Saul's interest drifted over to the box on the teacher's desk breifly before returning to Mia as she added, "We’re learning how the other half lives."Saul grinned, taking her tone to mean that she already had more than passing familiarity with muggles. "Sounds like fun," Saul returned, a bit dryly, before his eye fell back on the thingie she'd been playing with and he realized 'fun' was exactly the right word to use. He leaned closer and saw there was some sort of game in progress. "Is that the Gameboy?" he asked, knowing enough about muggle elecronic games to know that they exist, but not enough to identify them on sight. The closest he'd ever gotten to one was a cell phone.
"My family lives sort of in the fringes between magical and muggle," he explained, in case she really was muggleborn and therefore wasn't familiar with the California Pierces. The lifestyle often confused people on boths sides of the magical/muggle divide, but at least the magical community was aware of them and their ways.
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Holly Greer
May 06, 2010 2:27 PM
Oo, pretty candles by Holly Greer
Holly liked Divinations from the moment she stepped into the room. Professor Yuma's classroom had looked like a tent out in the Andes Mountains, and that had been kind of neat, but the purple and the fog that Professor Linn used was even more impressive to her mind.She wasn't quite sure what to make of his comments on Divinations being to wizards like magic was to muggles. Obviously, if it was being taught in Sonora, it wasn't illegal to talk about. Though she thought it was kind of mean of him to say that she should disregard everything Professor Yuma said (that being the extent of Holly's preconceived notions on the subject and its techniques). The previous Divinations instructor had seemed fairly competent to Holly, even if the woman did decide to stop teaching the subject in favor of becoming a psychologist.
Ultimately, she decided to just ignore the whole introduction. It didn't fit with how she saw the world and it didn't really affect the lesson anyway.
Holly took a few sporadic notes on Pyromancy, but she was unfortunately distracted by putting little hearts over all her 'i's and lost the thread off the lecture a few times. She thought she had the gist though, and they all had such pretty purple candles that she couldn't see how the lesson could possibly go badly.
She just needed to find five symbols in the flame and explain their significance to her future. How hard could it be, really?
Resting her chin on her intertwined fingers, she stared into the fire for a few moments until her vision started to go funny and she saw what looked like a yellow ring every time she closed her eyes.
She took that as her first Sign and smiled in giddy happiness as she wrote it down on her paper. "Five Signs Seen in the Candle's Flame: 1) A Golden Ring: Raoul is going to ask me to marry him!"
Blinking until the after image faded, she folded her hands in front of her again and put her chin on the small platform made by her fingers once more as she stared into the fire a second time. This time the shape that appeared on her eyelids when she closed them was a far less obvious. It took a moment to figure out what it was, and then she literally bounced in her seat she was so happy. She'd always wanted her very own castle.
"2)" Holly wrote on the next line of her paper, "A palace: Raoul will buy a gorgeous home for us to live in!" As she blinked away that symbol of her future she tried not to notice that maybe it looked a little more like upside down icicles than a palace. Besides, these were her interpretations, nobody else's. And her therapist already knew she could spot a palace in pretty much any ink blot she was shown.
She looked into the flame for the third time and it didn't take long before she spotted what she was looking for next. She didn't even have to wait for it to brand itself into her cornea, it was just right there in the twist of fire. "3) A pumpkin coach: We'll take a lovely trip somewhere and have a fabulous honeymoon." For a second, she even thought she saw a flicker of the four mice from Disney's Cinderella scamper under where the coach had been.
Looking into the flame again, she searched it until she saw what she next wanted to find. Oh, this was such a wonderful class, and she'd forgotten how much she loved it. It was so much better even than Charms, which had been her favorite Sonora class to this point. "4) A horse: Wendy (my horse) will remain a loyal companion in my new home."
It didn't take long at all to get the last symbol. Holly could find a tiara in a random ink spot even faster than she could find a palace. "5) Tiara: We will live happily ever after." She finished the prediction with a wide flourish and happy smile of success.
"I have a wonderful future in front of me," she announced to the other person seated at her round table.
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