Fifth Years: Lesson Four

Professor Nakamura was enjoying his time so far at Hogwarts. It was still only his second year, but he felt it was going well, and he had no complaints teaching his students so far. He waited for everyone to enter the classroom before getting up from his seat and standing at the front of the room. “Tonight, there’ll be no more talk of moons, which you may or may not be thankful for.” Professor Nakamura eyed the class for signs of opinions. “Instead, we’ll be talking about comets. They are rather rare, yet an important aspect of astronomy. Comets are made of ice, rock, and small specs of dust.”

“You could think of them as huge, dirty snowballs,” Professor Nakamura said, his lips twitching into a small smile. "They come from the Kuiper Belt - which is incidentally where you'll find Pluto - and the Oort Cloud, which forms a spherical shell around our solar system. Comets tails form when they get to the comparatively warmer parts of solar systems – that is, nearer to the sun, such as the space around earth.” Professor Nakamura paused, checking that everyone was following.

“On average, a major comet will appear near earth every five years. It is of note, however, that each comet is different, and how long you can see it and from where depends on different factors.” Professor Nakamura noted time was coming to a close on his lesson, so he rushed to finish. “That’s it for this week, no homework!” He said over students packing away their supplies and most likely getting ready to go back to their dorms for the evening.

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Roleplay the lesson for full marks.

 

[Bailey Walden-Cade]

Once Bailey had made her way up to the Astronomy classroom and took her seat they went quickly into the topic of comets, which was a move away from moons which she was glad about because she had grown board of discussing moons, there was only so much they could talk about floating lumps of rock that attached themselves to a planets atmosphere. Bailey took out a sheet of parchment and started to take notes, deciding to leave off his comment about them being dirty snowballs as she figured it wouldn’t be relevant.

The lecture was quite short compared to some of the other Astronomy lessons they had had, which she was glad about even though it meant less time between trips up and down the stairs. Once the lesson was finally over Bailey finished up her notes and put them in her bag, once Professor Nakamura had dismissed them she picked up her bag and made her way out of the classroom.

 

[June Davenport]

The blonde made her way to the classroom and found her usual spot close to the professor. He told them no moon talk anymore and the blonde was fine with that. She took her parchment to take notes of the next thing. Comets were interesting thought the blonde figured and had read about them already. Dirty snowballs didn't sound that nice though, and that was an stupid comparing. Every five years one would appear near earth and that was something more interesting than to hear. And she made sure to write that down in her notes. It was again an short lecture and she didn't felt anything about that. It gave her more time to study for other classes, which were a lot. As she made sure she had made her notes complete she took her belongings and left as the lesson was over.