Fifth Years: Lesson Five

This lesson, Professor Nakamura knew, would be exciting for the students. At least he hoped it would. They’d get to go on a trip after all. He waited for everyone to enter before rising from his chair and greeting the class. “Good evening. As you remember, last week we took a look at asteroids.” Professor Nakamura chuckled a little to himself at the little rhyme but recovered quickly. “Tonight we are going to witness what happens when parts of asteroids break off and enter our atmosphere.”

“Now gather round this telescope – it’ll be our portkey for this evening,” Professor Nakamura said, making sure everyone had a hold on it before they were all whisked away to a mystery location, far from muggles and with a clear view of a meteor shower. “Please don’t wander off,” Professor Nakamura instructed as he led the students to a series of blankets he’d set up earlier in the day. There were lanterns as well, which Professor Nakamura turned on with a flick of his wand. “Take a seat and I’ll talk while we watch the meteor shower,” Professor Nakamura said. He didn’t sit down himself but stayed standing, positioning himself in front of the group of blankets just as he would in a classroom setting.

“Meteors are typically small pieces of asteroid that have broken off, primarily due to asteroid collisions. As they approach the earth, they are pulled in by gravity and burn on their entry into the atmosphere.” Professor Nakamura took a good look at his students, making sure they were paying attention. Some were already looking to the sky, which was bright with stars. Others were paying attention to him which he was thankful for. “These are commonly called shooting stars. These rocks can be as small as 10cm across and as large as several metres. The light you see is produced from the heat of the pressure as they enter the atmosphere.” As Professor Nakamura spoke, the meteor shower started, a few brightly passing through the sky. Some students pointed them out to each other, Professor Nakamura smiling, enjoying the delight of his students.

“Protecting this planet for hundreds of years have been the astronomy masters. Wizards such as Lapp Shamans near the north pole help rid us of dangerous meteors and also use magic to force them away from the earth,” Professor Nakamura commented before realising that the meteor shower was full in force, and hence much more interesting than him. He accepted that fact readily. They all stayed for another thirty or so minutes, just observing. Once it was over, they all made their way back to the telescope portkey. “No homework this week, but please revise for exams. I’m sure I don’t need to stress their importance for this year,” Professor Nakamura said above students packing away their things and getting ready to leave.

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Roleplay the lesson for full marks.

 

[Teddy Pirrip]

Teddy arrived for Astronomy and was excited by the trip, he thought that the telescope portkey was a nice touch but wondered if Professor Nakamura ever struggled to remember which one of his telescopes was the portkey. Teddy touched it on his command and was transported to a mystery location for the lesson. He settled down to listen to the professor watch the meteor shower which was so cool. At the end of the lesson Teddy took the portkey back to Hogwarts with the rest of the class.

 

[Dante Styx]

The Slytherin fifth year could not imagine that they were already getting close to the OWLs and then the NEWT level courses would be next. That sounded absolutely like hell to him. He hated that he would have to work really hard to do well, or decently. Dante Styx did not like to work too hard at anything. He just wanted to have some fun and for a good reason. He found that if he did not leave, he would be late. He did not want that because he did not want that sort of attention. He grabbed his bag and left the dorm room in a hurry.

Dante entered the Astronomy towers and sat down in his eat, as per usual. They looked at Asteroids previously, so that was not too bad. They were looking at pieces of asteroids. Wasn't that a falling star? Why name it because it was not a star that was falling anyway. They traveled by portkey to another area and got to watch a meteor shower. He looked up, mesmorized by the sight of it. Because of that, the rest of the lesson sort of went over his head. He did not have great attention skills at all. What could he really have done? He was just glad by the end of the class, they were free to go without any homework.​

 

[Marley Owens-Lee]

Marley quickly made her way to her astronomy class and took a seat in her usual spot. She was about to take her things out when they were told that they'd be going on a trip, which Marley gasped in excitement of. The Hufflepuff joined with the rest of her classmates in touching the telescope, and it wasn't long before they were transported somewhere else. Marley took a seat as the professor had told them to. She nodded as the professor had mentioned he would be talking as they watched the meteor shower. Marley gasped in excitement as the shower had begun, pointing and smiling in amazement as she heard the professor speak.

Once it was over and the lesson had come to an end, they were dismissed. Marley joined with the rest of her classmates in holding onto the telescope, and they were off back to the castle again. Marley quite enjoyed that lesson. It was quite a cool thing to watch. She sighed in relief when she had found out there was no homework, really grateful for that.

 

[Millie Walden-Cade]

She was a little sluggish into the room today, but grabbed onto the portkey as soon as they were told to do so, perking up a little as they were transported to their viewing site. Field trips were nice when there weren’t too many of them happening all at once. She settled into a blanket and took notes as Professor Nakamura started talking about the origins of meteors. Which she wasn’t all that surprised to learn that the origins were not disimilar to comets. She watched the shower, leaning back a little for a good look, and listened as the professor explained about wizards protecting the planet from meteors, until she was too focused on the shower to take many more notes.