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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom  Telephones were like patronuses? Except patronuses were WAY COOLER and looked like animals. Caleb wanted to practice those sometime - he had no idea what his was!
Right, back to the activity. He sighed and took out his quill and parchment, trying to think of some things that would have muggle counterparts. It took a while, but he finally had a list in front of him of some ideas he thought were pretty good.
"Candles and fireplaces aren't specific to magic society, but other than that, good." Hadley commented on Caleb's list. Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty Layla was familiar with the term, but she'd never really thought about the breakdown of the word. What was the point, when you could just go to a dictionary? So, she just sat there, trying to resist the temptation to just start pushing buttons.
Nope, not even a tap on the keyboard. Uh-uh. Not from this Slytherin. Well, maybe just one, on the 'L' key.
And now they were moving on. To another thing that Layla had never really thought about before. Muggle advances and their magical counterparts. And she had never really connected patronuses to the telephone. Hmm.
Anyway, she started thinking about this now. Really thinking about it. The concentration probably shone on her face. And after about four minutes, she thought she had it. Hadley nodded approvingly at Layla's list... even though she'd chosen to do only spells, it counted and worked so... Quote:
Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Oh no. The Professor was going to make them think today, really think. Jasmine was not sure if she was up to the task, but she was going to give it her best shot. Trying to make her brain work was a challenge. She wasn't sure that she could come up with two answers, let alone five. Pausing at Jasmine's workstation, she pressed her lips together thoughtfully. "I wouldn't necessarily equate airplane with portkey; airplane seems more equivalent to broom. Car maybe portkey though..." Quote:
Originally Posted by Emms He wrote down the definition in his notes and continued to listen to the Professor. Different technological advances in muggle life? His blue eyes widened. Ooh, he could do that easily. Yes. He could get started. Then he heard the next bit and a frown appeared on his lips. Oh dear. He had to list a magical counterpart. He was unsure if he could do this effectively. Oh... Brainstorming time.
He got to work. Five examples were all that he needed to come up with, right?
He pursed his lips and glanced at his thoughts. Uhh.. Sure. Some of those worked, right? He really hoped so. "Good yes," Hadley said stopping at Simon's desk and given a nod of approval at his list. Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy Lux wasn't sure if it was the cold or what, but she was feeling more daft than usual in this lesson. Everyone around her had been giving answers, but she herself had remained silent. Maybe she didn't know as much about technology as she had thought she did. But for her, the knowledge had mostly came from fiddling with gadgets and working out how they operated.
Writing notes on what Professor Hadley was telling them, she tried to think of five examples. It wasn't very easy, but she wrote them down:
"Again, airplane I would equate more with broom travel. Buses probably would equate with portkey as do cars..." Hadley said in comment to Lux's list. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Um... Could they go back to making pizza again? Because thinking was not going so well with the Gryffindor today. He just wasn't in the zone, you know? You've got to be in the zone for class, and he was like five hundred kilometers far from "the zone". Wadya say Hadley? Move this technology center lesson down to the kitchens? Look at the technology in the ovens or something?
No? Alright... alright... One list coming right up. Ooh, gillyweed. Nice comparison there. Hadley nodded in approval at Zander's list. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordred He hates this.
Why did he even bother to attend this class? This just made him remember something from his past that he didn’t want to resurface. This week is just getting worse. Ethan kept quiet the whole time, and decided to concentrate on what he can achieve for today. New knowledge, perhaps? He knows…the computers and stuff. He doesn’t live under a rock, but maybe…something more interesting than that, no? Anyway, onto the activity.
The third year got a parchment and muggle pencil from his bag and started to list down five muggle things and its magical counterparts.
Ethan tilted his head and realized that growing up in the muggle world, even if he’s a pureblood has its perks. At least he doesn’t look stupid. Heh. "Traveling by aeroplane I would think is more similar to broom travel, but other than that, good, good," Hadley nodded at the list. Actually, come to think of it, she wasn't sure there was anything really similar to apparition in the muggle world. Quote:
Originally Posted by feeheeheeny Sophie was taking meticulous notes, even though none of the concepts mentioned so far were particularly hard to grasp. Technology... the study of building or creating something. Simple, buuuut if she didn't write it down, she'd forget later. She added the areas of medicine, informational technology, and construction under the definition as some sort of examples, but she wasn't entirely processing what Hadley was saying. Some stuff about some muggle stuff. Or something.
Coming up with some practical ideas and uses... she could probably do that. She thought about Tobes and all the visits to his house and neighborhood, considering the different simplistic, muggle-like things he had available to him. After the first minute passed, she still was brainstorming, so to make up for lost time, she jotted down the professor's own example, then spent the rest of the five minutes adding a few more.
She made lots of faces while she scribbled answers down, occasionally stopping mid-word to try something different. She had a feeling most of hers wouldn't count, but it felt better to write something that didn't make sense than to write nothing at all. Probably.
Muggles were weird. "Good, yes," Hadley nodded in approval at Sophie's list. Very good, actually. Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel was going to try and do this, she wasn't sure she would be very good at this because well, she hadn't really seen much of the magical world to know what was going on but anyway she knew a lot of muggle stuff. Angel quickly took out her parchment and started to write.
Angel had done an extra one because she wasn't sure if the fourth one on her list counted because it wasn't really a devise but well it would do for now and she would wait and see what Professor Hadley had to say. "Good ... patronus doesn't have to be specific to mobile phone though, as I think it could be any type of phone," Hadley explained. "And I think owl mail would be the equivalent of more e-mail or the muggle post." Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiara Lucy listened the instructions of the professor..then she started to write: "Good except owl mail is more equivalent to e-mail or muggle post mail than phones. And I'm not sure necessarily that shooting stars are .... magic in nature." But otherwise the list was good. Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Adi grinned at his Super Els as she sat next to him. He would miss her after this term but the term still had some time left before it ended. He was so pleased when he got a little hair ruffle from her, too. She was so cool. And she and Kace were agreeing with his answers. Awesome!
The boy listened to Hadley explain stuff and then the activity. Interesting matching telephones with Patronuses. He put his pen to paper and began to write:
Okay, Adi was all done and he felt pleased with his work. Hadley nodded at Adi's comparisons. "Ah yes, very good, very good indeed." He definitely wrote some unique ones too. Quote:
Originally Posted by Talikins Well *cough* WELL WELL WELL! *cough, cough, cough*
HELLO to you TOO Grayson.
As soon as the annoyance, named Grasyon, sat beside her all Abbi did was give him sassy looks. WHAT did he think he was doing? He did know if he tried ONE thing to annoy her she had a gazillion ideas to repay him, right? RIGHT? Or maybe never mind repay him, she could pay him in ADVANCE. Cause seriously why else would he be there?
HEHEHEHE.
The sassy looks turned into a huge wide smirk, this was going to be good. The third year shifted her chair closer towards the oldie beside her and then lifted her feet to lie on top of his lap. LEG REST OH YEAH. Now this was chinchilling.
Oh..wait..what...the Professor had been talking?
Meeeehhh. Abbi grabbed her some tools and scribbled away on her own lap. "Good, good," Hadley nodded at Abigail's list in approval. Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixStar "Hey Ian." she whispered to her friend as he took a seat next to her. She was just about to answer his question when the lesson started. The first year would just have to catch him after class. Her eyes moved to Adi and she caught his smile. This was different, but she'd take it.
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So AJ missed the first question, but she was totally listening and taking notes. Mmmhmm. For once there was a question asked that she knew the answer to. She would be having no problems at all with muggle studies. Getting a fresh piece of paper, AJ immediately started jotting down examples.
She was done. Too bad there wasn't any food. "I wouldn't necessarily compare cars to broom. Cars more to floo or portkey, but airplanes more to brooms. And candles aren't necessarily magical, but the way you described it, alright fair enough." Quote:
Originally Posted by Grrr..Meow OH OKAY, time to write some stuff down, Bay pushed up his sleeves as he pulled his parchment and quill closer to him
hmmm he looked at the paper.. hopefully these were all good. "Good," Hadley nodded in approval at Bay. Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo ...
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Slowly the Gryffindor lifted her head from the desk and looked over at the Professor asking them to compare muggle things to what they had. How in Merlin's beard was she meant to know that? It wasn't like there was some kind of manual on this...unless it was in her textbook? Definitely wouldn't be finding it then.
Very casually the Gryffindor leaned over to the closest desk and took a peak at the parchment but merlin could these people write any more terribly? What was that even saying? SIGH. Just across from her was another parchment that she considered fair game but not even squinting could help her see. These people were ridiculous. Looks like she'd be making these up on her own. Yup.
Here went nothing. Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.
And a couple she could think of too... And a nod for the Gryffindor prefect too; see, we knew you could do this! Nice unique comparisons too for some of them. Quote:
Originally Posted by Edward Penguin Ian listened to the beginning of class and decided to take a measured tone to see what might come of it. Soon enough it was time to do something. He took out his parchment and quill and began to think. Shortly, he came up with the following ideas
He was satisfied he'd done an adequate job. And nod for Ian too; Hadley gave him a brief smile Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone ......................... Oh jeez. He had made a BIG mistake sitting next to this sassy robot.
Grayson eyed her, maybe even raising an eyebrow at her when she gave him a sassy look. He wanted to ask her whether she always went around giving those kind of looks or whether this was a special day buuuuuut those kind of questions were best left outside of the classroom. Probably in the Great Hall where he could fling a bean at her if she decided to do anything--
....................... Really? REALLY?!
He looked down at her stinky feet, that were currently resting on his lap, and then over at her, both eyebrows raised. Did he LOOK like a footrest? Jeez. Somebody needed to teach this one how to respect people who were older and cooler than her. You didn't go treating them like footrests. No.
And thanks to the weird one over here, he had missed the first question.
The second one was a little easier. Probably. Grayson shoved Abbi's legs off of his lap because he actually needed to write something too. And he didn't care if it jogged her or surprised her. No. Grabbing his journal, he flipped a couple of pages before starting to scribble down something to answer Hadley's question.
"Good, good," Hadley nodded surprisingly at the slytherin when he actually wrote down somewhat unique answers. At least the paint one was unique. Quote:
Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl Okay, so her answer hadn't been too far off. That was nice considering she was just guessing. And now they needed to list some Muggle stuff and similar magic stuff. That shouldn't be too hard, yeah?
Penelope thought about it for a little bit and then started jotting down her thoughts.
That was five, so those were good for now hopefully. "Excellent," Hadley nodded at the seventh year Greenwell. Merlin, wasn't it like JUST yesterday when the other Greenwell was graduating? Where had the time gone? Quote:
Originally Posted by JustAlice Okay, right... muggle technology for magic things? Derry could do this. She knew stuff like this. Thank you, muggle mother.
Derry picked up her quill and started jotting down examples on her paper.
... That totally made sense, right? Right. Ohhh more unique answers! "Good, good," Hadley smiled nodding in approval at another seventh year. Quote:
Originally Posted by Shanners All Elodie wanted to do was go back to bed. The thoughts hadn't gone away, but she battled on. And on and on and on. Something like that. It was an endless loop, she assumed. She'd been doodling in the corner of her page when Professor Hadley had started to respond to their answers, but when the first little task was given to them, she diverted her energy to writing things down.
Hadley had asked for five, but Els had questionable ones and so she'd noted those down too just for the sake of it and to remind her to maybe ask about those if she felt like it. She'd caught Adi's grin, and returned it quickly, before going over her choices again. And nod for her prefect too, because even the ones with question marks next to them were good; at least Hadley didn't see anything wrong them. "Good, good," she nodded at Elodie approvingly. "Right, so as you can see, muggles have quite a few technological advances that they've developed over the years - decades even - to make their lives simpler. To, in essence, be us without being us." Because why wouldn't they want to be them? They did everything faster and more efficiently, two things that humans ALWAYS seemed to want done. "Technology is developed to make life easier. To make life more efficient. To move at the speed of light, if you will, if its possible."
"The piece of technology we're specifically studying today is the computer. The general purpose of it being to carry out arithmetic or logical operations in automatic fashion." Picking up a stack of papers, Hadley passed some to the person at the end of each row, "I have here a diagram which highlights the important terminology and components to a computer. Select one of the terms you see on there and tell me what you think it does?"
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