Earl Valentine
January 05, 2006 4:18 AM
Go me! by Earl Valentine
This is the desert! Earl thought bitterly. It's not supposed to be this cold! There they were sitting in an unheated classroom with freezing temperatures and blizzards. This was nothing like Earl was used to. 80 degree Christmases - yeah. Frozen appendages - not so much.Earl sat wrapped up in three coats, a scarf he had found in the common room two nights ago and his father's old ski gloves. And the professor wanted them to open their books! He couldn't even think let alone open anything.
The cold cvonsumed his thoughts until a familiar voice broke through the fog in his head.
"No point in remembering boring things, anyway."
It was Asher, sitting right next to him and he didn't even realize it, his peripheral vision blocked by a yard of scarf and bulky jackets.
He snorted through the fabric at her enthusiasm. "Hey! Long time no see," he managed to gurgle out through the fabric, although he would be surprised if Asher had actully apprehended what he had said.\n\n
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Rupert Princeton, Pecari
August 31, 2013 5:13 PM
I've always wanted to be on camera. by Rupert Princeton, Pecari
It was clear Rupert needed to make some real muggle-born mates. He certainly wasn't going to get a clearer explanation of Muggle rituals and entertainment and appliances without someone who actually lived in the Muggle world. Professor Chambers was, however, exposing Rup to things he had never known before about the Muggle world. It was amazing, to say the least, how these Muggles lived without magic. However, as much as he loved the videos that Professor Chambers showed them, he enjoyed learning about the process of these things more. He knew what a camera was, but a video camera was a concept foreign to him. Every photograph moved as did every painting; at least that's what Rupert had originally believed. He felt so open and knowledgeable of the world now and this was only the beginning of his Muggle Studies course.Rup was almost always early to this class to see what they were learning about that day. The video camera they had learnt about the last class was on her desk and he hoped they would be learning more about it. It was all fascinating, really. It was his last class of the day, but he could spend hours learning about Muggle things and culture even if he didn't completely understand them at times.
Their activity today was to create flipbook movies. He didn't understand what that meant until Chambers showed them. It wasn't nearly as interesting as making a movie themselves, but he supposed it would be fine. He could draw cartoons well enough and his humour was not exactly going to be on par with Chambers', but he could try. Thank goodness she had supplied them with the necessary materials. The best bit of the whole project would be working with the video camera. He could not be held responsible for fooling around with the camera once it was voluntarily put into his hands.
It was time to make this Muggle movie and Rupert began working. He used one of the pencils to begin and was in the process of drawing one of the old-fashioned bicycles he had seen photographs of in his textbook when his elbow was bumped. He was sitting on the right side of the desk and he was left-handed, so it usually happened often when his desk-mate was right-handed. His bicycle had extra lines coming out of its spokes now, but he simply took a rubber and rubbed out the excess pencil marks. It was lucky he hadn't started off with the coloured pencils. "How's your work going?" he asked his neighbour conversationally. "Thought of an idea yet?"
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