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SPOILER!!: Because of Muggles Quote:
Originally Posted by Emms  Simon had spent the majority of the class listening to others. Today, he was rather tired and spent most of his time staring off into space. Despite this, the boy was managing still to take notes. Notes were important. Without them, he'd probably would be lost.
Why was it important to use the disillusionment charm on a Hippogriff?
Well muggles seemed like the simplest answer so he went with that. He raised his hand. "Using a disillusionment charm on a Hippogriff would stop plenty of muggles having heart attacks. Imagine if you were a muggle and saw a Hippogriff, you wouldn't know what to do." Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Toby raised his hand whilst still thinking of an answer.
"Is it becaaauuuuse..." Uhhh. Hmm. "OH. Maybe because if you keep Hippogriffs and one escapes or flies off or if a muggle happens accross them somehow then they'll be all disguised. Like, for the Statute of Secrecy?"
A lot of wizarding world world rules and laws did seem to be because of that after all, so it was a decent guess, right? Quote:
Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline
Soon enough Professor Thompson started the class, revealing the hidden focus of today's lesson. A hippogriff. He knew but had remained silent and he was pretty sure Adi beside him knew what it was, the Hufflepuff quite enamored with the creatures. At the next question he raised a hand to answer. "It would be for Statute reasons wouldn't it? To keep muggles from seeing them, especially in flight."
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Raising her hand, Jasmine felt like she was re-stating the obvious. "I agree with the others. You wouldn't want to risk having an unusual animal like a Hippogriff seen by Muggles. Plus they can be dangerous if you don't know he right way to handle them. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom
"Because hippogriffs are magical creatures and totally not something muggles would expect to see. They'd for sure know something was up if a half bird half horse thing came walking down the street," he explained.
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Originally Posted by Cassirin But this question... Mo raised his hand. "It isn't as if there's anything in the Muggle world that looks remotely like a hippogriff. They'd be immediately aware that there's something wrong and unnatural, to their minds, and would probably freak out. Definite breach of the Statute." Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19
The Hippogriff obsessed boy jammed a hand in the air for the second question, however. "To prevent Muggles from noticing them and their awesomeness.'' Everyone should know what great creatures Hippogriffs were. Too bad for the non magical folks. They were missing out.
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Originally Posted by 2111jen It took Jonas a while to realize that the professor was in there. Then when he did realzie, it was time to take notes. Hippagriffs! That was Jonas' favorite nimal. He smilled and quickly took notes. Now the question. Dillusionment...it meant to cover.
"Wouldnt it mean to cover up the hippogriff?" Jonas asked as he raised his hand. "So muggles on't know?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Ohh, well, this was a pretty easy question, Sophie thought. Hippogriffs were pretty commonly known creatures, so she knew a lot about them just from growing up in a magical household. She nodded along as a few others said just what she was thinking. Raising her hand, she said, "I agree that's it's so they won't be seen by Muggles. They're so large, and since they can fly, they can pretty much go anywhere on their own. They don't realize they're not supposed to be seen by Muggles, so we place the charm on them to hide them." Quote:
Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin
"Professor personally if I saw one in the muggle world I would think I would be crazy. I might need to check myself into a hospital or something. So I think it is for the creatures safety so it won't get shot by hunters if they see one." That is what he thought. I mean he never heard of something like this before if he lived in the muggle world.
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Originally Posted by Squishy Ooooh, so the Hippogriff had been disillusioned. That made a lot more sense than there being a breed which could become invisible. Taking out her notebook, she jotted down a few things about the creatures.
Hippogriff were pretty, and she would love to be able to pet one so long as the end result didn't involve her riding on its back. There was no way she would ever fly on one of those things. Raising her hand, she guessed as to why the Hippogriff would be disillusioned. "Is it to make sure that muggles can't see it in case the Hippogriff flies off to areas where muggles live?" Javy nodded curtly with each answer," Yes, to help secure the line between Muggles and Wizards from discovering him." Chances are the amount of time everyone was kept indoors now helped with the students study habits. There were some quiet students as usual, the Professor assumed they were entranced by Henry currently getting up to fish another dead rat out of the bucket near his feet. SPOILER!!: Because of... Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack
As for the question? This took a bit of thinking... Well there was one answer on his mind? "Because if it wasn't under a disillusionment charm, we would've all probably ran up to it to pet it?" Weren't Hippogriffs super testy too? "And then it could've attacked one of us, which would be very... very bad." And that was the whole true story. Yeah. So best keep it away from the visible eye and from curious students. But all that statute of secrecy stuff could have been right too. Just more boring. Yeah.
Javy quirked an eyebrow, " It would not end as well as with the Unicorn in that case." Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel looked at the Professor. "Professor is it because Hippogriff's can fly?" Angel wasn't 100% sure but she had a feeling that if one escapes and a muggle saw it then it would be very hard to explain what has happened and what the muggle had saw. " That's partially a reason." Not enough to insist on making them invisible, but close enough. Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiara Lucy said:"Professor I think is it to keep out the Hippogrif of sight of his henemies. .." " Not a bad reason," Nodding, though Hippogriffs can manage well against their enemies keeping them out of sight would indeed help. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordred Now, why would you put a Disillusionment Charm on a creature such as Henry the Hippogriff? Hmm. “Is it because Hippogriffs doesn’t like over excited hoomans?” Ethan grinned with his hand raised. “Because if we knew it was there right away, some would be too enthused to approach it…aaaaaaand, I believe there are steps on how to approach Hippogriffs.” He added as he placed his hand down.
Soooo. Do they get to interact with it? " Depends on how excited the human is." One who simply ran up to it, yes that's a good reason. But there were those too excited to even move much which it wouldn't matter with anyway. " Indeed there are steps to approach them.." That would be revealed momentarily. Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixStar
"It is because you have a really cool one, and you don't want trying to be like you and getting a Hippogriff exactly like yours?" Did they come in different colors? AJ knew that girls acted like this over shoes and purses. WHY they did this was beyond her, but what did she know about those girly things?
" Not exactly.." Javy wouldn't be much of a Creature enthusiast if he didn't want others to possibly own a Hippogriff too. Quote:
Originally Posted by Meizzner Ah, it was a disillusionment charm on the Hippogriff. Pretty Awesome. Nigel did not understand why expect for the obvious against the law for muggles to see them. Other than that. Nope not one thing popped into his head. Though it would be a pretty hard challenge to have to take care of a disillusioned hippogrff. Especially if it does not like you.
"For the challenge"
The Seventh Year answer might not make any sense. but who said he had to make any sense. Riding a disillusioned hippogrff sounded awesomely awesome, though. A curious look played. " Such as..?" Was this Prefect planning on finishing his thoughts? It was left quite ambiguous. The challenge of actually using the charm on the Hippogriff or the act on owning an invisible Hippogriff? Oh well. Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo
"I agree you have to hide 'em because it'd be really awkward trying to explain it to a Muggle, you know how they always think they've made new discoveries and all. They'd probably wanna take it home and feed it cereal." Strange folks, Muggles were, but then...."I do wonder though...with them being proud and stuff. If you can't see them and thus don't bow...won't they still be offended?" And like...attack?
Hippogriffs did that, you know. With SHARP claws and powerful legs.
Though at first it seemed like the Prefect would also merely mention Muggles, she had an interesting question. " Good question Miss Cambridge. On average they would not find it offense if you don't make an sign of noticing them. For example, Hippogriffs are able to tell if someone is talking badly of them nearby from their ability to read body language quite well, so if one happened to run into their space without being able to see them they will understand and try to keep their seclusion." Now to continue, " Alright, so essentially you got the gist on the importance on keeping the Hippogriff out of sight from Muggles to keep up the Secrecy and for their own protection. But there's also some importance within our community with keeping their presence unknown for legal reasons." Such as, " Hippogriffs can sometimes be mistaken for the more ferocious Griffins at the first sight. Imagine the scenario on one mistaking a Hippogriff for a Griffin in your own backyard. The result can be quite devastating if one is not aware of their differences." Now that's one creature one would be a little more hesitant on running up to hug and pet.
Leading to next question, " Now what are some of the distinguishing features that make Griffins and Hippogriffs different from each other?"
--- OOC: Try to mention only one fact/difference between them. =)
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