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Divination - Gryffindor and Ravenclaw; Year 5 - Day 2 - Period 2
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Bannishtar awaited the arrival of his next class from within the majestic forest room. Above, the stars shone brightly and, brighter still, shone Mars. An unsurprising, yet all together troubling sight.

The centaur felt apprehensive. Tonight he would venture back into the forest. He did not fear returning. Firenze and Bane had already made it clear that he was welcome among the herd. No. He feared that though they would remain friendly, they would not see reason this night.
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Tristan ascended the final stair to emerge into the main corridors and made his way into the Divination classroom. As the studious type he always paid attention in class but he was more intrigued by the setup of the room rather than the actual content taught within. He gave the raise-the-eyebrows-in-welcome to the Professor as he took his seat up against his favourite tree, nestled in amongst the uprising roots. "Professor, are you going to give us the same OWL speech as everyone else has? It's starting to worry me is all." This lesson didn't require anywhere near as much focus as Potions and so he hoped his friends would join him.

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Harmony wandered into the Divination classroom, early to her lesson for once. She looked around as her eyes adjusted to the difference in light. She curled herself up in a little dip in the ground, looking around in awe. She felt her mind wandering through millions of fantasies through this enchanted place. You could almost forget that it was a classroom and imagine you were actually in the forbidden forest... She lay back and allowed her mind to explore as she waited for the rest of the class to arrive. A small part of her mind wondered whether Jay was ok, but she quickly forced the thought out of her mind.
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"I am afraid so, Mr. Nightshade," said Banni, "it is my job, after all. You are fortunate, however. You only have to hear it one year out of your entire school career. I have to say it to all my fifth years every year, the same dull speech." The centaur smirked.
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Diana sat behind Harmony, her black hair long and over her shoulders and over her crossed arms.

The stump she sat on had green moss creeping up the side, a deeper green than the sparse grass around it.

She sighed, wondering if it was lunchtime yet.

Maybe this Halloween would be better than last year's. She pressed her full lips together in thought, waiting for Bannishtar to begin.

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Tris nodded his head, "That's true," he admitted. "You win then." He grinned ip at the centaur, always fascinated by the opinions and emotions that a non-human Professor expunged from the wizarding world. He personally thought it was great - not just because he was the perfect Divination Professor - but he was a fairly good person and believed strongly in equality. Yet many people loathed the fact and there were regular Daily Prophet articles questioning his abilities to teach students and calling for his resignation. The Professor must have thick skin to not let it bother him. Then again maybe it did bother him but he just didn't let it show. Tristan admired that. Yet the fact remained was that he was not a firm believer in Divination as a skill and so found it difficult to devote his entire efforts and attention. Only a few students had arrived and he had been the first Ravenclaw to leave Potions so it wasn't surprising that he was one of few there. Addie, too, had yet to join him.

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Addie entered the Divination classroom, casting her eyes around it briefly. The room still fascinated her, despite the fact the class had never been her favourite. It was useful, sure, but only to certain people, and she wasn't exactly one of them. The girl smiled and nodded to Bannishtar, before making her way over to Tristan and sitting down beside him. She'd managed to catch the last snippets of their conversation.

"Hello sir, hey Tris. Oh, don't forget, there are NEWT speeches to look forward to as well." She commented, grinning faintly and glancing between them. "So, besides the speech, what are we doing today Sir?"
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Savannah entered in for her first class of the day. Yawning, she smoothed down her Donatella silk blouse over her uniform pleated skirt. Having slept through potions, Savannah missed the transformation of the potions mistress. The clip-clop of Savannah's heals stopped as she travelled onto the mossy-grass floor of the Divination classroom.

Looking at the dirty patch of where her classmates were starting to place themselves, Savannah raised her eyebrows and decided to stay standing in order to avoid getting dirty.

Tapping her foot on the ground, Savannah waited for the class to commence.
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Lucy entered the Divination classroom, looking round for Margo who seemed to have gone. She shrugged and said a general, "Hello," to everyone, before looking round to see who was there. She decided to sit by Diana with a smile.

"Oooh, OWL's. I almost allowed myself to forget. Whoops." There was laughter in her voice as she spoke and looked up to the sky.
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Diana smiled. The seeker loved the outdoors, and was naturally at ease in this environment. If only she were allowed to watch the lesson from her broomstick. That would make things perfect.

"I think that we're all trying to forget about the auspicous O.W.L.S., Luce," she remarked. "I've devised a strategy on how to go about them, though. Spend more time studying for the OWLS that I feel most comfortable with, and spend considerable less time on subjects that I don't have a snowball's chance in Hell of passing higher than an Acceptable."

She grinned, using a saying that her mother always referred to. Diana no longer cared to hide the fact that she was muggleborn, although she had realized it didn't really matter. She had ample friends in her own house, and in the other houses, excepting the Slytherins that were especially nasty. Diana was, for once, comfortable in her own skin.
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Harmony Dibley


Harmony was dragged back into reality as more people entered the classroom and people started talking.
"Oooh, OWL's. I almost allowed myself to forget. Whoops." Lucy said as she walked towards Diana who had sat behind Harmony.
"I think that we're all trying to forget about the auspicous O.W.L.S., Luce," Diana replied. "I've devised a strategy on how to go about them, though. Spend more time studying for the OWLS that I feel most comfortable with, and spend considerable less time on subjects that I don't have a snowball's chance in Hell of passing higher than an Acceptable."
"Well, I'm going to end up cramming, I always do. I plan out all the things I'm going to revise and then I just forget to do them! I tend to do the ones I feel most comfortable in first then suddenly I have to do loads of revision for the other subjects! This year I'm going to try to learn things properly." Harmony said, smiling.
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Lucy smiled at the pair as they told her their normal revising techniques.

"I generally start revising an easy subject early, and spend loads oftime making revision cards, then not use them at all and cram for the rest. But once I made a last-minute revision timetable and it was really good, so I'll probably use that more."

Lucy then, finally, looked at Banni to hear the answer to Addie's question, but still listening to see if Harmony or Diana would speak again, before another though sruck her.

"We should start a study group!" Lucy said, actually excited. However, her thoughts were more of them lying in a circle of cushions on the floor, with discarded books in the middle of them, eating their way through various sweets.
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Diana nodded sagely. "We could tackle this together...because we're all better at different subjects--we could help eachother!" she exclaimed.

This could give them an advantage.


"I'd perhaps strive for something more than an Acceptable in classes like Potions, then."
She said with a grin. They could beg the house elves for some study foods as well.

"Girls, I think we have a plan." she said, decisively.
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"I am glad you have asked, Miss Lumineux," said Banni as the students began to arrive in full, "please, class, lay back upon the grass and gaze up at the ceiling above you."

The centaur raised his hand to the simulated night-sky of the ceiling, and the billions of tiny lights went out rapidly, one by one, until the classroom was cloaked in near-total darkness. Then, there was a great flash of light, and the previously dark, unadorned ceiling was a rush of many-colored activity. A great wave of light spread outward, forming first stars. All at once, in rapid succession, great clouds of dust surrounded groups of stars, the stars exploded, and gave birth to new stars, only for those starts to, moments later, do the same. The original dead starts became black holes, and began pulling other starts and great masses of debris towards them, the great materials of the heavens circling the black holes like a drain.

"The universe," the centaur began, "Order born from chaos. Even the most destructive force in the universe, one from which even light itself cannot escape its dark abyss--the black hole--even the great abyss is one of the keys that creates a functioning galaxy, and within a galaxy, countless stars each with their own orbiting heavenly bodies, and around those stars, the chance for life--the miracle of the universe. The very debris that accumulate after the destruction of the star from the basis for life--my people believe all life is but dust; star-dust, to be exact."

A single galaxy expands to fill the entire space of the ceiling. It is our own galaxy: the Milky Way.

"The universe, as I have taught you these past two years," said Banni, "and its movements are governed by specific mathematical patterns, represented by basic ideas ingrained in the subconscious of every sentient being--the archetypes we have studied previously. These patterns are readable, if only one knew where to look, and interpretable by those who have the knack for it."

The Sol system comes into view, seven planets orbit a yellow dwarf star--the sun of our solar system. Suddenly, a great fiery orb roughly the same size the little blue planet (currently brown and gray due to its current state of unstable atmospheric conditions) the great comet seems to stop suddenly, coming just short of a collision with the Earth. Great black clouds fall from from the yellow pressure-cooker world, dousing the young Earth with a deluge of black liquid. Billions of years pass, and the former comet takes its place in the solar system as the planet Venus. Another great heavenly body comes rocketing towards a now blue and green earth. A red planet. The force of the near-impact causes the earth to flip, reversing north and south poles. Thousands of years later, Mars settles into an orbit a safer distance from Earth.

"Though we were birthed from the same lands as our human neighbors in Ancient Greece, my people in their wisdom long ago realized these great bodies in the heavens, not as gods to be worshiped and groveled before, as the humans thought, but as great heavenly bodies whose movements throughout space are to be observed to find in them a recognizable order which may be the key to explaining life on our tiny little world--be it that a god may have ordained this or may have not. In the end, two different approaches to the same end, but while one was superstition and the dreams of old men, the other was research, records, and observation.

"Regardless, we realized, as I have endeavored to make clear to you, that our ability to perceive the stars and the ideas and premonitions we might derive from those stars are neither infalible, nor do they offer true wisdom--and remember this we must, lest we become consumed by the nuance of our abilities. We must remain and watch whilst other races race towards their doom, in order to understand the that doom which we have already perceived. These things I have taught you over the past two years, but this year, however, we shall leave the realm of ideas and passive observation, and into the realms of guesswork and simple vanity."


The lights of the universal story playing out above the heads of the class once again blinked out, and the darkness dissipated. Sunlight entered the room from windows that seemed to magically appear in the walls. The room now resembled less the real forbidden forest, and more an atrium. Though the trees and plants remained, the illusion was broken. Banni hated having to let the light in, but for this course the students would need to be able to read the books he was handing to each student: Unfoging the Future a book on human fortune telling.

"Now,"
he said, "without cracking open those books yet, can anyone tell me the fundamental difference between the act of divining the doom of our world and the art of fortune telling?"
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Margo burst into the Divination classroom, her sneakers squeaking on the floor as she ran. Hopefully Margo wasn't too late. She looked around the room, where the students were laying on the grass, staring up at the enchanted ceiling, while Bannishtar was talking.

"Sorry Professor, I was - " Margo stopped mid-sentance. Certainly people didn't spontainiously collapse. Had Fera done something wrong? Margo didn't want to get her in any more trouble, "- I was in the bathroom."

She hovered nervously at the door, waiting for Bannishtar to tell her to sit down.
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Lucy nodded at Diana's desicion, thinking about her atrocious wandwork. She was about to change the subject completely and ask if they knew if anything special was happening for Halloween like last year, when Bannishtar started the lesson.

Once he had finished the lecture, let the light in, and started handing out textbooks, Lucy realised that she really did need to study Divination, too. She couldn't concentrate on his words and they floated meaninglessly around in her head.

Lucy, stop this now. Banni asked a question. Answer. Lucy searched in the empty space where her brain usually was to pick out the question, and tried to focus on an answer. Urm, doom? Death? Fortune telling... Erm... Lucy put up her hand, an answer still formulating in her head, her words all twisted into a sentence that had no sense, ignoring Margo's burst in.

"Erm... wouldn't telling the future actually tell you what's going to happen to you, or whoever? While foretelling death is easy because everyone - everything - in the world as we know it has to die, to it's... doomed?" Lucy's answer sounded more like a question, and she ended more confused than she had started.

She cringed. She could have said that so much better. Or even just kept her mouth shut.
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"'Death?' Miss Hughes? I was not talking only of death--oh," said Banni, "My apologies. I have forgotten that "doom" is not commonly used in the context with which I use it. Though often used in the present day to mean something bad happening in the future, the word 'doom' can also mean the fate of someone or something in general, good or bad. The use of the word in that context is no longer common, at least, among humans, but in that context, 'doom' is often used by seers because it offers no opinion of a 'good' fate or a misfortune--and in that, I have just hinted at the answer. Now, with that in mind, does anyone wish to take another crack at my question?"
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"Ummm....." Margo began, deciding to answer the question and (hopefully)get on the professor's good side. "Doom telling would be telling of ALL the future, good and bad, whereas fortune telling would be only the good, i.e. things that are fortunate." She had thought the answer sounded reasonably good, but like Lucy's, a bit like a question.

Realizing she was still standing, Margo hurried to find a seat, and postitioned herself kitty-corner from Lucy.
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Emma's head was resting on Grant's shoulder as the two of them sat, secluded in a corner. None of their friends had even noticed the two, and Emma liked feeling like a she was spying on them. After rushing up to class after their heart to heart on the grounds, the two managed to slip into class just on time. Emma yawned and smacked her lips, her eyelids threatening to droop as sleep desperately tried to creep up on Em...

Bannishtar's light show was mesmerizing, his words like poetry to Emma's ears. She drank it all in. Bannishtar was one of Emma's favorite teachers, though Divination made little sense to her. It was much less logical, and even so she couldn't use her creativity to her advantage either - it seemed to be partly guesswork, partly hoping for the best (which was maybe why Tinsley was so good at it), and Emma couldn't concentrate for long enough regardless.

"Now," Bannishtar said, "without cracking open those books yet, can anyone tell me the fundamental difference between the act of divining the doom of our world and the art of fortune telling?"

Emma heard several answers and lifted her head from Grant's shoulder slowly, clearing her throat. Carefully she said, "I think Margo certainly has a point, in her own right," shrugged Emma. "Though I was always under the impression fortune telling was more...tea leaves, where as wouldn't diving the doom of our world be something individual to each person? I mean, how can everyone excel at projecting doom? If it was that easy, everyone left and right would be rambling." Emma settled back into her seat. "Kind of like me right now, actually." With a small chuckle, Em resisted the urge to set her head back on Grant's shoulder. He certainly did double as a great pillow.
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Tristab was entirely sure of the answer and so chose to remain silent, happy to lay there and listen to the discussion take place. Say what you will about Divination as a class, it was always different. The "night" sky did hold a certain fascination as he gazed upon it. A vague answer wandered into his mind but he chose to let the others flesh out the correct one.

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