::Astronomy::

Lilith Tempest
Hufflepuff
First Year--Lesson One

Astronomy! Lilith was excited to have such a class. First of all, it was allowing her to stay up a lot later than usually she was allowed. Second, she loved stars, and the chilly night air. So of course this class was awesome.
Lilith followed her fellow classmates up the Astronomy Tower, and they came out to a nice, open 'classroom'. There were telescopes all around; she chose one and stood by it right as the professor began to speak.

Rather odd man, she thought with a grin. At least he has a good sense of humour. Then he asked them to introduce themselves. Suddenly, it was her turn. "Erm, I'm Lilith, and I.. er.. I like cats," she finished lamely. Oh well, at least she tried.

Before she knew it, he was asking them to try a new spell. Lilith lifted her leg a bit to take her wand out from its home in her sock. Pointing it at the telescope, she tried, "Too-lee-luh-tum." Apparently it wasn't right; the telescope wobbled, and the lense seemed to fog up. No, that definitely couldn't have been right. Lilith listened to the rest of the class, then tried again. "Tulilatum!" The telescope was clear!

Eagerly Lilith looked into the sky--she had never used a telescope before. Everything was so beautiful, so.. detailed. She sighed dreamily. "Oh!" She had just spotted Jupiter! Lilith opened up her notebook and scribbled a quick picture of Jupiter, then under it she wrote, "Jupiter. It is big and shiny, orange and yellow-ish.. stripeys.. There's a big dot on it."

Okay, Mars time. Looking around for a few moments--and getting distracted by pretty stars--she finally found Mars. She drew a picture of it too, then wrote under it, "Mars. It is red, except there are white patched on the top and bottom. Ice caps?" Without much else to say, Lilith moved on--to the moon.

The moon blazed its image into her mind as she stared. When she moved to copy it to her notebook, she was temporarily blinded. Blink, blink. There, now she could see. Soon there was the third subject. "The moon. It is much prettier close up, and really bright. Tons of craters. I wonder what it would be like to go there."

Lilith smiled. Now that she was done with her assignment, she could start looking for other things in the great, big sky..