[Divination] TV:LI The tea leaves are lovely

[Jason Walker]

Jason flicked his eyes over to Bradyn in which he saw the 'Claws eye twitch. Ah, the pleasure of annoyance and perhaps jealousy. Such is the life of a Slytherin. Smirking and tossing a wink towards Bradyn, Jason had a challenging expression on his chisled face. The only thing mouthed on the Slytherins lips silently read, "Bring it."[/color]

[Polaris Stormwrath]

Polaris couldn't help but snicker after seeing the Slytherins reaction to Bradyn's little eye roll. This should be entertaining, for both the Slytherin and herself. She knew that most 'Claws, excluding herself, of course, wouldn't be able to stand up for themselfs and if they did, it usually spelled disaster for them. Gotta love it.

Her Bi-coloured eyes flickered between the two once more before she finally settled her gaze upon the Professor. She wasn't shy at all and figured that introductions would be fun. Or a way to brag. Ah well, such is life. Raising a toned arm, Polaris smiled and addressed the Professor, "Professor, do you mind if I go next? I know most people hate introductions so this will go painfully slow."

[Edward Niven]

Edward drummed his quill against the hard surface of his desk, reclining in the cushioned seat he lounged in. His moss-coloured eyes scanned the room's inhabitants curiously and he frowned a bit at the Professor's primary instructions.

Introductions were, quite frankly, a waste of his time. If he wanted to know those around him, he'd have already asked - and seeing as how he was quite a solitary character, that rarely happened.

Smirking a bit to himself at Walker's introduction, Edward glanced around the room to pinpoint the other boy. However he was distracted by a limb perched in the air, belonging to the girl sitting in front of him. Leaning forward in his seat, Edward half-heartedly raised his arm as well.

"Or perhaps we can get on with the lesson? Introductions really are a grueling process." He figured if the professor didn't appreciate his input, he'd spend the rest of the lesson completing his overdue Transfiguration Essay.[/color]

[Cairo Blackwell]

"Or perhaps we can get on with the lesson? Introductions really are a grueling process."

Said the Slytherin boy to her right, as Cairo's large eyes sucked in the room around her. She noticed the looks passed between a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin, rolling her eyes and continuing in her scan around the class. Petty house rivalries were a waste of her time, no point in getting involved, despite her constantly being targetted by their jokes and pranks. Her wrists still hurt from being shackled to a dungeon wall the morning before last, though the swelling had vanished, leaving large, blue and purple bruises ringing her wrists. She didn't mind them much, though they did stand out against her porcelain skin.

Drumming her long--but not disgustingly so--fingernails against the desk briefly, Cairo cocked her head to the side with a thoughtful look on her face, wondering what exactly was meant by "introductions". They weren't actually going to go around and introduce everyone, were they? That seemed a terrible waste. Perhaps they meant an introduction to the lesson, but then why would that Claw girl stand up and offer to do it? Whatever was going to happen, she really couldn't tell, her mind was a little jumbled that morning from lack of sleep. She was like a cat in a way, needing more than a huge chunk of time of sleep in order to function properly. One time she got sick when she slept less than eleven hours, it was disastrous.

Rolling her shoulders back to prevent them from getting stiff, Cairo's eyes slid briefly to her right, trying to connect a name with the face. She hadn't been at Hogwarts long enough to know, not to mention she had barely seen him around anywhere. He probably kept to himself a lot. Flicking her eyes back to the board, she waited patiently for the lesson to begin, unwittingly beginning to doodle a portrait on the margin of her parchment.

[Prof. Hannah Edgecombe]

She was already getting annoyed with this lot. Kids were so damned annoying sometimes. They had to fight about everything, and wanted to do nothing. For the most part Hannah had just allowed them to be until the one Slytherin boy-oh she knew he was Slytherin- decided to test her patience.

"Keep your snide remarks to yourself. We're doing this because oh well I don't know I'M THE PROFESSOR. If you have a problem with the way my class is being run then I have one suggestion for you and that's you are free to leave at any time. I don't want to keep anyone here who doesn't want to be kept and I will not have anyone being disrespectful to me. So now that we've gotten that all cleared up I suggest the introductions continue."

Hannah wasn't at all like the other professors she would not allow these student to run rough shot over her or her class. Staring straight into the eyes of the rabble rouser Hannah crossed her arms over her chest waiting for another remark.

[Ellie Rook]

Ellie manged a smiled as she watched Bray stick his wand under the table. Suddenly she felt free and she lifted her feet without an ugly smuck. She lifted her head off his shoulder as the class began. Ellie groaned slightly. "This isn't a class." She muttered to Bray, "Its a chance for the Slytherin to tell us how much better they are then anyone else on the planet." Ellie said, crossing her arms.

The Hufflepuff only half listen to the first Slytherin boy who spoke. He looked at Bray menacingly. Ellie sat up straight, glaring at the boy. What she would give for a reason to go after him...

More objections to the lesson plan, Ellie secretly agreed with them, but then again, she wasn't about to publicly agree with a snake. They would probably turn on her the moment she opened her mouth anyways.

No one got up. Ellie shrugged and looked at Bray, her eyes looked tied. She was sick of trying so hard. She was going to explode soon. But not yet, she thought, as she stood up. "I guess I'll go." She said, flicking her eyes across the room. "I'm Ellie Rook. Hufflepuff, fifth year." Ellie said, getting the boring stuff out first, not that the rest of her little talk was going to be interesting. "I'm Irish, but I've only lived in Ireland once my whole life. I guess I've lived on every continent at least Three times over, and in more countries than you can probably list." Ellie said, trying to make her life sound cool. "Umm, yeah..." She sat down, more like slumped down, and waited for the next person to go. She leaned slightly up against Bray, trying to get comfortable.

[Edward Niven]

Edward's lips curved upwards at the Professor's sudden outburst. He had been more than polite with his opinion, or so he thought, though figured the woman wanted to make it clear she wasn't a pushover.

Running a finger across his desk in a wayward pattern, Edward couldn't help his eyes from brightening amusedly. "I'll go then," he said, flattening his palm on his desk and straightening.

"I'm Edward Niven." He began shortly, catching the professor's gaze. "A Slytherin who rather detests anarchy and so will, unfortunately for a select few, voice his opinion quite often." Looking away swiftly, almost hoping the professor would again screech at him, Edward turned to Ellie. "Oh yes. And I'm partly Irish as well."

He finished his introduction with a more neutral comment and returned his attention to staring at the grains of his desk.[/color]

[Julianna Farraday]

Bugger it all, who in the world did that anymore were they in grade school or something? She thought doing introductions was for the younger grades. Hating to speak in front of others Julia wondered how she could get out of it, maybe she would ask to go to the rest room. Her hand slightly raised before the outburst.

One of the Slytherins who apparently couldn't keep his mouth shut decided to test the woman Julia was already afraid of. Her reaction to his comment only cemented that fear. Professor Edgecombe did not like to be told off. Even the boy who made the comment seemed to sense this for after everything he stood up and made his own introductions.

No bathroom for her she had to pay the piper and face the beast. So she decided to treat the whole thing like a band-aid. Once you were ready to remove it the best way to go about it was to just rip it off in one shot to get the pain over with as soon as possible. As the boy sat down Julia got up "I'm Julianna Farraday. I'm a fifth year Gryffindor I was born in Ireland." That's all she cared to offer and she immediately sat down never looking at the woman.

[Polaris Stormwrath]

With furrowed eyebrows, Polaris took in the Professors outburst that lasted a few minutes too long. Well, that was uncalled for. Not to play the devils advocate, but that Slytherin was actually being polite.. She then glanced over to Edward, giving him a sympathetic look as if to say 'She over reacted; you were right'.

Exhaling softly, she stood up, next in line for introductions even though there was no order. "My name is Polaris Stormwrath and I hail from Norway." With everyone staring at her, Polaris began to become a bit embarassed about her thick accent, but she continued on after a bit of hesitation. "I, like the other Slytherin that went first am fluent in five languages, but I find English the hardest to remember. I'm afraid I'm not Irish like most of the others that went before me, but instead a bit German and of course Norwegian." Hesitation took over once again as the Ravenclaw's brain stalled on what she wanted to say next. Unfortunately, the next thing would be quite boring but she ended up blurting it out anyways. "My favourite colour is blue, my favourite sport is archery and my music is power metal. And the last thing is that I am a registered Animagus, and my form is that of a large timber wolf."

By the time she stopped talking, a blush was apparent on her cheeks as she sat down. She honestly didn't mean to take that long, but with the English language, she felt she had to keep talking to sound competant and sure of herself. That is something she'd regret.

Giving out a whimper, she rested her head on her arms that were crossed over the desk. For the first time in her life, she was actually embarassed. Softly, she spoke once more. "Sorry for taking too long.."

[Cairo Blackwell]

She was surprised to say the least at the professor's snappish outburst, especially since the Slytherin boy hadn't been very rude. At least in her eyes he hadn't. Everyone else seemed to roll their eyes at his comment, even though there hadn't been anything wrong with it; he had simply made a suggestion. It was then Cairo began to slowly figure out one of the reasons why Slytherins acted the way they did. They were choked with prejudice at this school.

Standing after the Polaris girl finished, Cairo swept her large eyes around the room before speaking, "My name is Cairo Blackwell, I'm a new student at Hogwarts. I went here for half of my first year before transferring to another school, then returned to Hogwarts after spending a large amount of time in Egypt." Ironic, considering her name. "The prejudice at this school astounds me.." Also ironic was how she remained porcelain and pale in appearance yet she had lived for so long in a rather sunny, hot place. "And very unusual things happen to me a lot." She finished with a curt smile, sitting back down gracefully as the next student stood to introduce themselves. Contented with the mashing of the complaint before the suitable comment about herself.

Leaning forward Cairo rested her elbows on the table, careful not to break anything that was currently resting on it.

[Bradyn Reed]

Bradyn just smirked his your welcome to Ellie before catching the eye of the ever-challenging egotistical Slytherin. Patting Ellie on the shoulder as she almost visibly growled, he just chuckled as a way of showing that he could take care of himself. After all, Bray found himself interesting enough. Maybe not enough to beat out language boy, though.

Bray had to bite his lower lip lightly to keep himself from literally laughing out loud at the Professor's snapping since it seemed to him that the Slytherin deserved it. Just because of the feuds they would get into in other classes. Especially DADA, that was disastrous and he was still disturbed by that lesson. After Eugey went, he decided it was his turn since he was one of the only left uncalled for. Standing up and resting his arm on El's shoulder as if he was afraid she'd fall over with no one to lean on, he just sighed. "I'm Bradyn Reed, Fifth year Ravenclaw. If we're going to talk about nationality, I'm almost fully Irish and lived my entire life there. My sister is the Transfiguration professor, as most of you should know.. and," Pausing in his speech, he averted his eyes since he would have rathered to tell her this more smoothly. But at least in public she couldn't take him down or run away in fear. "I'm a registered animagus, the form being a domestic short haired cat." Deciding he'd already said too much, he sat back down with a frown and tried to not noticed Ellie's reaction to the news. She had to know sometime... right?

Introductions were officially, too troublesome.

[Ellie Rook]

Ellie was sort of tuning out everyone. She didn't really care what they had to say. She knew that Polaris was from Norway, she had mentioned it enough in classes for the whole school to know, and this new Slytherin... Ellie had lived in Egypt seven times, the first two were ok, but it gets old fast.

It was Ellie's bad mood. She couldn't help it. She felt ten times better now that her feet weren't permanently stuck to the ground, but the Puff, who 9 out of 10 days was always happy and looking on the bright side, was allow to have one day to sulk about, well, everything.

My there certainly were a lot of Irish in this class room. Ellie couldn't help but be warmed by this. Bray being next to her helped a lot. It was peaceful over in their little corner, away from any Slytherins.

Bray got up to speak, and Ellie smiled as he placed his arm on her shoulder. It steadied her, not that she would have fallen over. As he begun to speak, Ellie looked up at him. He didn't say anything she didn't know about him. He mentioned his sister and paused. Ellie expected him to sit down, finished.

Ellie looked up at him dumb struck. She was suddenly very grateful for his arm on her shoulder. She might have fallen. He was an animagus. Ellie frowned as he sat down. She tried to look at him, but he avoided her. Ellie sighed.

Why would he keep this from her? She guessed it was always sitting right in front of her, the first time they met he had tried to justify a cat attacking her, and Fay always calling him strange feline nicknames. Ellie tugged on her arm, and looked softly at him. "Why didn't you tell me?" She said softly, neither mad, nor happy about the news.

Could this create a complication she feared?

[Professor Ashton Laurent]

Ash spoke up next, "I'm Ashton Laurent, and as my name suggests, yes I am French. Well, half English, half French. 17, seventh year, and I live in Lyon, which is located in the southeastern part of France."

Deciding that he might as well discuss his Animagus form, he contiued, "I am also a registered Animagus, Snow Leopard is my form." Then he remember his pets, "I also have a West Highland White Terrier, some of you may know them better as Westies, named Coconut, Coco for short, and unless she has wandered off again, she's in my dorm sleeping."

Then, he remembered his horses, "Oh, and I also have two horses back home in France, a black mustang stallion, and a white Lippizan mare. And their names are Spirit, and Majesty. I also have quite a few hobbies. Mainly singing, dancing, oh and iceskating."

Why they were doing introductions, he honestly had no clue. He pretty much knew almost everyone in here. But then again, maybe Professor Edgecombe was just one of those teachers who liked to go around and have everyone introduce themselves. That's what it sounded like...

[Jason Walker]

As Jason listened to the class continue introductions, it seemed to take a wrong turn somewhere. With each person, it kept getting more and more ridiculous. That Ellie girl? Introduction was fine and to be expected from a Hufflepuff. Niven? Perfect for a Slytherin: The only exception. The Gryffindor? A joke, trying to play it mysterious. Haha, like that works. That Nord is good on my terms with her pure, superior blood, decent taste in music and -not- some sort of pussy animagus. Atleast one of her likes can appreciate the North and some sense of superiority. And oh jesus.. I actually have to listen to this crock?

Jasons thoughts soon were drowned out by the voice of Bradyn, which was a hard thing to do, but he achieved it. Another animagus..

But hold on, there was another voice, one worse than Bradyns, which, he was thankful for that Bradyns wasn't bad at all, just not the best he's heard. Ashton? I didn't think that queer was in this class. With eyes rolling in sudden anguish, Jason almost slapped his forehead at the mention of 'animagus' for the third time. One animagus, that's fine. Two? Coincidence. Now three with this sodomite added to the list.

He groaned and folded his toned arms across his chest while curling his lip up in disgust. "This is absurd.." were the only words to be heard from his list, the letters each being pronounced with a loathing tone. [/color]

[Prof. Hannah Edgecombe]

Her outburst however unnecessary it may have seemed did the trick. There was no more groaning and moaning about the introductions, they were simply doing as they were told which was all she wanted. Sometimes she had to remember what it was like to be a kid, she hated to take orders, enjoyed testing limits, but now she was the adult and found that quite unappealing.

As each stood up the quick quotes quill was writing some information on each things that would help her remember them more clearly, which was the reason for the exercise in the first place. Her chest became unclenched, her stature less tense for only a moment. Her "sister" stood up Julia began to speak and Hannah's hand clutched the edge of her desk. Again she thought of how unfair it was her having to teach her father's bastard child. She gritted her teeth and tried not to make another scene. The quick quotes quill stopped writing as if sensing its owners anger.

Short and sweet that's what she gave Hannah for that she was glad. The girl sat down and Hannah managed to remove her white knuckled hands from the desk. The quill stood erect on its point once more and as the next students began to speak it commenced taking down the info.

Once the last student was done she stood up her mood in total chaos though no one would ever have known. "OK thank you for doing that, I'm sure many of you don't see the point I never did growing up but I found it does help me to get to know so I'm glad that you managed to oblige me. Today is our first lesson in the subject of divination, I know you have had other professors in this subject so I'm not sure what level you are up to but I feel the best place to start is something simple. So today we will be studying tea leaves. So now who can tell me about tea leaves, if you unsure please refer to the text (here's some reading about the topic, please paraphrase your answers.)"