Astronomy 3:2

"Hello all!" Adorah said as students piled into the classroom, her tone excited. “Today, we're going on a unique field trip. We'll be heading to a very cold location - the South Pole! There are suits for everyone to keep warm, and don't worry. They will be very large, but once you close them, they shrink to your size, keeping everyone extra snug,” Adorah said as she slipped one on as well. There were suits in red, blue, green, yellow, and black. Students didn't have to choose their house color, but the former Ravenclaw chose a blue suit for herself. “We are going to be visiting with the Lapp Shamans, one of the societies responsible for maintaining the magical flow of energy that enters the atmosphere,” Adorah said as the students gathered around her.

After everyone successfully used the portkey and she'd triple checked with a head count, she gestured for everyone to look at her. “Now I hope you all remember last year - can anyone tell me where magic stems from?” Adorah asked her students once they had arrived in the icy cold polar desert. “The Sun,” a student answered. “Correct - 2 points to your house. The sun sends out rays of magic, and these reach the earth, hanging in the atmosphere before slowly settling into the earth. When hit with the Aurora spell, the sky lights up because of an interaction of the magic from the sun with the upper atmosphere and the magic from the spell.”

A Lapp Shaman appeared nearby and waved Adorah over. She beckoned the students to follow her. They arrived over a small hill, and there were seats made of snow and ice forming a circle in the ground with backs that leaned farther back than most chairs normally would. The chairs were smaller than normal chairs, fit for the stature of the Lapp Shaman tribe.

“Now, the tradition of the Auroras is a very special one, and to see the spell cast so close is a rare treat. Please remain respectful during the presentation,” Adorah said to her students while a group of Lapp Shaman began their ceremony of the Southern Aurora. The group was too far away to hear the words being spoken, and the darkness of the night hid most of the movements. Beautiful colors began to dance in the sky - green was always a very prominent color, and on the lower edges of the curtain-like light were blue and purple. At certain times, it was easy to see red as well, although the color was much rarer that night.

As time went on, Professor Zumwalt knew it was getting much later and the time to leave was approaching. She slowly stood and got the student’s attention to make their way back to the portkey. Once they had arrived at the castle, Adorah collected the suits that had kept the students warm during their trip and sent them off to their dorms with no homework for the next week.

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[Primrose Kaster]

Prim wasn't sure how she felt about a snug suit for the cold, but apparently it seemed to work because when they got to the location, and after she'd stopped feeling nauseous after the portkey travel, it felt rather nice actually. She put her hand up when the professor asked about where magic stems from and grinned as she said, "it comes from the sun!" which they had learned a previous year. She followed the rest of her classmates as they headed up the hill, marvelling at the sights a the South Pole. She thought it was kind of cool that they could just be here, and even though she had grown up around magic it never stopped marvelling her about how beautiful things were. Astronomy maybe wasn't her best subject, but she still liked it. When they class ended and they returned to the castle, she wondered if she would remember enough of it to draw it. She wasn't a very good drawer, but she would like to try at least.​

 

[Elijah Edogawa]

Eli tried not to be so tired for this class and in an effort to do that he'd taken a bit of a nap between his meeting with Professor Potter and this class, but it wasn't really all that helpful. He knew he needed to be more focused this year especially, but it wasn't as easy as he had hoped, and with his grades having slipped last year he was more than a little determined. He needed to bring his grades up, it was all he had. Prim answered the question before he got chance to and that was fine, but he wished he had the opportunity to answer first. The chairs made of snow were kind of cool, and he wondered if there had been any magic put into that - probably. he liked that they could just watch the sky this lesson, because he felt like that was what it should be for (and he did his best not to fall asleep). He took a couple of notes, but didn't think there was much to write down really.​

 

[Lumos Walden-Cade]

Lumos had nearly dozed off before he remembered that he had a class tonight. Wasn't sure about the whole warm suit thing but once he had it on he didn't really want to take it off either. He groggily followed everyone else as they looked up at the sky, the sudden blast of icy wind only managing to annoy him rather than wake him up like he'd hoped. he listened to the lecture, but his hands were too cold to take any notes, he hoped someone else had been paying enough attention that he could borrow off them, but he dind' think he would need to, all they'd done was watch the sky after all.​