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Zara Gwendolyn Monroe
Sixth Year
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SPOILER!!: White Team Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelsheen  Salander took his seat with the White!Team and recognized a few familiar faces-- he gave little Alice a smile and nodded his head in GlitterPuff's direction. His tilted his head at the quirky Ravenclaw boy who started to wax poetic about grilled cheese sandwiches, then ran off to the kitchens to get servings for the class. "Hey see if they could rustle up a side of nachos too!" he called out. Free food-- specially those that he didnt ask for-- was AWESOME!
Focusing back on the task at hand, he furrowed his brow and said "Hmm so, Muggles experiencing weird weather, freak accidents, missing people, black billowy streaks across the sky and the sudden appearance of a bald, pale dude with no nose.... well, they're gonna say what they always say when they cant explain things-- the Aliens have landed!" Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl
"Michael Jackson," Fletcher mused, rubbing his chin. "Michael Jackson." He repeated the name once more for good measure and THEN the mental image of the guy with no nose cropped up. "Michael Jackson! Genius. That just might work!"
"Yeah I doubt they would," Fletcher shrugged. "We were just discussing that."
"They would just avoid talking about the mysterious occurances going on all around them? Hmm," Fletcher didn't really think they would react that day. "But Muggles really rely on their media as sources of information... and I'm sure all their tellyvisors and newspapers would have a field day with bridges collapsing and stuff."
"Ooh good idea," Fletcher also nodded approvingly at the other Ravenclaw. Geez, what was this group? 'Claws and Gryffs? "An apocalypse is one way to describe the havoc Voldemort was wrecking, I reckon."
"Yes, exactly!" Fletcher offered Salander a knuckle-bump. "It's all the aliens' fault and the ALIENS are bringing the APOCALYPSE! All led by Michael Jackson.
As the one boy in their group ran off to get everyone grilled cheese, Fletcher cracked a grin and raised his hand to answer the question for Team White!
"Well, Professor," he started, "we think the Muggles would have reacted by trying to find a rational, normal, non-magical explanation for every odd occurence. They might have described Voldemort as some sort of 'terrorist' and compared his appearance to Michael Jackson's. They probably also would have thought aliens and UFOs were involved if they say flying cars or people on broomsticks, for example. And finally, if things got too bad and dementors were attacking left and right and building were exploding, the Muggles might just have given up hope and declared it all to be the apocalypse. Because no matter what, we all agreed that Muggles wouldn't accept that magic and wizardkind was to blame.... because obviously, in the mind of a Muggle, magic does not exist."
He nodded and looked back to his group to see if they had anything to add.
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Originally Posted by CreativeAllie18 Alice gave Salander a small smile back and listened to his answer. She laughed quietly to herself. Aliens? She knew some muggles were thinking along those lines but most were thinking end of the world. "Most muggles were thinking it was the end of the world. Nearly all the newspapers read "apocalypse" somewhere in their titles."
Alice nodded in agreement at what the boy had said. "That sounds about right," Alice said quietly, not wanting to sound too opinionated among so many older students. Quote:
Originally Posted by Canoir Greengrass Freya nodded at the older boy opinion. "Yeah. Most muggles would think something like that. If something happened in their world that out of their mind they'd assumed that Aliens did all that thing." she said. "They never believe magic is exist. They thought magic is just some tricks." she added
Again Freya nodded her head when the older Hufflepuff boy summed up team white opinions. Quote:
Originally Posted by PattyH. Patroclus nodded in agreement with the school famous, Glitterpuff, but his eyes were really glued to the door way. Now that the professor had agreed on the Grilled Cheese, it was all Patroclus could think about.
"Wooo Hooo!" The boy sang, rubbing his hands together as Jacob returned. Snatching the first grilled cheese he could, Patroclus sunk his teeth in and began to eat.
Mid-grilled cheese, Patroclus thought of something else to add, " Muggle have grown up reading books that tell them that we are just stories, I bet you could walk up tp one and say, Hey I am wizard and they would just calll you crazzzzzy!"
Patroclus was crazy alright, crazy for Grilled Cheese! Quote:
Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu
OOOOohhhhhh!!!! Ellie grabbed a one, or two, or four grilled cheese sandwiches. And hey, if anyone was gonna complain they didn't have one, they could just walk their little selves down to the kitchens. Jacob was on her team after all. That gave them first dibs, right? Right.
She took a bite and mulled all this over. "They did think we were crazy.Way back when. I think my great great great great grandpa or something was going to be tortured at a witch trial. Lucky he had his wand and apparated out. Rumor is, though, that that was how Nick died." That's what her dad said, at least. But he was in Gryffindor, he would know.
She went back to eating the sandwiches. They were excellent.
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Originally Posted by brelovesweasleys Yes, white team. She followed Salander as he left the table to join the group that was matching their changing marker color. Hey, Fletcher was there! He seemed to be around a lot more this year, or at least that's how Rae noticed it. She wasn't all too distracted by one person this year.
Rae listened to Fletcher's final statement about that the muggles would think... Wait, what was a tellyvisor? Before he could even finish, Rae had to put her head down on the desk to keep herself from obnoxiously laughing or something of the sort. Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl
Fletcher liked all these kids' answers. He made signs of agreement and approval as they all spoke, nodding and "uh-huh"-ing and such.
But then, then, all thoughts of class were lost as that Cheesy Claw reappeared with REAL grilled cheese!
"AWESOME. Nice job, man," he grinned and grabbed two sandwiches, one per hand. Mmm yeah. This was a good start to a snack. Mouth full, he looked at Rae with her head down. "Whatshamatter?" Quote:
Originally Posted by brelovesweasleys Rae heard Fletcher's voice once again, this time directed at her. She popped her head up, maybe it was a little red from laughing. "Oh nothing's wrong.." Whhhhhaaaatttt?! "Are those grilled cheese sandwiches?" Her eyes grew wide as she snatched one. She could feel a smile across her face Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelsheen At that Salander had to Laugh.Out.Loud "Right on!" he guffawed, returning Fletcher's fist bump.
Salander punctuated his agreement with a two thumbs up. He was still snickering though, which was intensified when he saw Rae put her head down, obviously trying to keep herself from guffawing just like he did. "Alright!" he exclaimed as he helped himself to a sandwich. "No nachos?" he asked dissapointedly as he looked at the giant plate, then shrugged and took out a big bite. "Would be nice to have a drink to go with this." he mumbled between mouthfuls, shiftily eyeing Fletcher and Rae.
Salander nodded his head in agreement with the others. "Muggles would believe something that is so fantastical like Aliens and Apocalypse rather than something that makes more sense such as other humans like ourselves having special abilities." Sylvie nodded as she leaned against her desk, listening to what the White Team had come up with. "That was very nicely stated and thought out. I bit odd, if I can say, but interesting for sure. I can slightly see the resemblance with Michael Jackson and the idea of it being the apocalypse is very feasible as well. It's usually in some people's nature to think up something far more outlandish than to possible accept that maybe there is a reason, such as magic, why certain things are occurring." She really did enjoy the thought that went into their answer. Outside the box thinking. Very smart they were. Quote:
Originally Posted by Walrus Jacob some how was able to open the door to the Classroom with the giant plate he was holding.
"Sandwiches are here!"
He walked through the door, and place the plate on the teachers desk.
Alright he said, he wouldn't say anything about Grilled cheese... he didn't promise not to say anything about Chocolate Mousse Cake! Loophole!
Jacob went back to sit with the White team... so what we're they doing now? Upon seeing Mister Blunt's return, she smiled and retrieved a slice for herself before turning her attention to the next team. SPOILER!!: Green Team Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn Aw right, that was true too.
"Which, is why I mentioned the extra jobs opening up to keep that from happening." she said, tapping her quill on her desk as she slung her other arm over her chair and fingers laying on the top of it. No one really wanted another Grindelwald. Unless of course...they did and would be siding with whoever it was.
Glancing over to the professor, Evelyn turned back around in her seat, waiting for the others to say what they came up with as she took one more peak at her team mates. Anyone going to say what they discussed? Yes? No?
Maybe?
Eh. Raising her hand, it seemed like it was their turn. "Well, for the wizard public, there was multiple interpretations of the event. Some of us would have been glad for finally coming out of "hiding" and be able to use magic freely without most of the consequences. On the other hand though, some of us probably wouldn't have enjoyed the fact that muggles would have been introduced to our wizarding world under such a harsh event, and instead would have liked them to have found out about us in a more lighter sense like...curing cancer or something." That's what that one girl had said right?
"And then, I think it was also mentioned that some would use this opportunity to take their "rightful place" and try to conquer the muggle world instead. So all in all, it really depends on the view points of the individual witches and wizards, and like we were discussing earlier in class, where they came from." Quote:
Originally Posted by leo Lucy was in the green team supporting the wizarding people "According to me, i wouldn't believe anything about magic if i was a muggle. I would not follow to what the ministry said and would put them in jail for spreading just rumors of magic" she said and looked around. Quote:
Originally Posted by mellamaet Cass listened to what her teammate had to say. When she was done, she added "Also, I don't think exposing the muggles to magic would be the best idea...especially when concerning their mental health." Quote:
Originally Posted by Magical Soul Louisa thought about this slowly; If I were a wizarding public and muggles knew the reason behind those attacks and catastrophes.. Hmm.. It's not that they knew about us, it's only Prime Minister who did actually so that changes things.
"If I were the wizarding public at that time, I'd be scared to death for Prime Minister to judge wizards and witches by those Dark ones that were corrupting his side of the world..." She said with bent eyebrows expressing concern and continued, ".. And I'd be worried about muggles knowing about us and then refuse to mingle with us.. leaving us out or accusing us of being aliens." Yeah the little girl did watch lota muggle-machines (TV).
Louisa looked over at her team-green-mates and listened carefully to what they had to say. Yay! Very close opinions, nice. Not that it mattered to her, heehee. She sat there moving her feet back and forth playfully enjoying this lesson. Again another team that thought out what they were going to say and phased it quite nicely. "Yes, the wizarding public would have many views and I believe you did well touching on them all. There is always bound to be those that believe the prejudice that have been instilled in them and those that would prefer that they just be allowed to be who they are and perhaps completely co-exist along side of muggle without completely hiding who they were and what now. This is all a hypothetical situation, but I think you did well in seeing what I am trying to get at." More students that thought outside the box. She was really growing to like how some of this students thought. SPOILER!!: Purple Team Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley Well I guess I will talk for the Purple team" Rex told the professor. No one else spoke up.
" Well the Ministry needs to keep everything hidden from HogWarts, Muggles and thee rest" Rex said to the professor. " The Ministry would have the paper tell everyone that there is no problem in the Ministry" Rex explained to the professor. " The ministry is not going to really protect the innocent, they are going to protect themselves at all costs" Rex finished his Ministry staement for the Purple Team. Quote:
Originally Posted by CharGryffindor Rubiey spoke up too. No-one from the purple team was speaking, so she stepped forward.
"It's like some of the other groups have alreaady said: Muggles are oblivious. They will make up the most un-realistic stories, just to stay ignorant about magic. I think that it makes them feel safer; they would rather believe that 10year old bridges are bound to collapse, or that there's freak weather conditions, than actually face up to the obvious. It would be too much for Muggles to handle." She smirked; she had just summed up her mother. "The Minister of Magic is right to let the Prime Minister know, and of course he isn't going to say anything; people would think he was nuts. They think all witches and wizards were 'burned at the stake' back, like, a billion years ago, and refuse to think anything different." She finished. N'awww, silly muggles. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley " Just think how you would feel if this happened in the Ministry today' Rex told Rowan. " you will get it' Rex smiled.
" Nice going "Rex told Rubiey"You and I have different opinions for the Ministry as I already told my point earlier" Rex said to Rubiey
" I also think the Ministry would shut down their doors" Rex told the professor.
" I think the Prime Minister and The Minister of Magic would deny anything happening with the help of the editor of the Daily Prophet." Rex explained to the professor.
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Originally Posted by potiongirl10 Amy spoke up " i think that the minister of magic has the right to tell the muggle prime minister what's going on because well... he needs to know what's happening otherwise more bad things might happen" she said uncertainly she thought that was a good answer but wasn't sure Quote:
Originally Posted by CharGryffindor "I'm not sure, Rex. I don't think the Prime Minister would deny that anything was happening; it's just that no-one would believe him, from a Muggle point of view. The Minister for Magic has a duty to inform the Muggle Minister of what is happening, especially when the life of Muggles is at stake. But how many Muggles do you know that would believe him if he came out saying that a group of evil wizards and witches destroyed the bridges, or an entire town was destroyed because of giants? That's why it would be safe to tell him." She paused.
"Back then, when it first happened, everyone already knew that You-Know-Who had returned, by this point, so the Minister didn't need to hide it from everyone. He only leant on the Prophet to avoid hte public going into disarray, and can you blame him? People were panicking enough that He had returned, they didn't need to be upset further by hearing deaths every day. But I agree it was wrong to do that. People had the right to know." She stopped, and took a deep breath. She wasn't sure if that was anything to do with what they were talking about, but oh well, she fancied a debate. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley "Well, I love your point" Rex told Rubiey. " We need to convince the other teams" Rex laughed. "We are both on the same Purple Team" Rex said to Rubiey. Quote:
Originally Posted by PandaGirl Heather madly kept taking down everything her group mates had said. History wasn't her best subject, but atleast, she should give it a try. She barely understood anything said, still, it wasn't any reason for her to just give up. She buried herself on taking down notes endlessly and staying alert and listen to everything her groupmates had said. Oh, why did she not listen to her parents about the history? Quote:
Originally Posted by MissFeenella "True", Fee whispered smiling back.
"Well, i understand were Rubs is coming from but i also unbderstand your point of view", Fee said trying to explain what she thought,"i suppose the minister wouldnt tell the muggles cause they wouldnt believe him, but he wouldnt tell the wizarding world either. Foirst to avoid panic ans second to block it out. I mean who would want to know that under his or her captaincy something like a dark wizard become powerful? But isnt it the minister's fault then if the situation gets worse? I think so."
Fee took a deap breath. Quote:
Originally Posted by WillowSeawinds "Thanks Rex. I'll try," she said. " think that the Ministry would deny everything as long as possible to avoid frightening the muggles. The last thing people need are a punch of terrified people running around willy-nilly." Rowan crossed her fingers and hoped that this was a suitable answer. Looking to the next team, she frowned a bit as she listened. It sounded as they really hadn't come to a real consensus about what to say and were slightly fighting amongst themselves. Clearing her throat, she looked pointedly at them. "Yes, the Ministry would look out for themselves first and cover themselves. Crude as it may sound, they would go into survival mode. We have to remember this is a hypothetical situation and the Statue is not in effect. But you have to also take into a count just who was the ministry was made up of at the time. There is no question as to whether it was right for the minister to contact the Prime Minister, I wanted to know the possible different view the Ministry as a whole would interpret the event." They had gotten most of what she wanted them to get, but she felt still maybe they didn't completely grasp the point.
Two teams out of three wasn't really that bad, was it?
Pushing herself off her desk, she looked back to all the groups with a small smile. "Well, how about we move on to another topic before we end the lesson and I give out the homework?"
Yes, it was quickly approaching the end of the lesson.
"This will be a quick question, I promise. In honour of our visiting guests, each team will take the view of a school. As we discussed earlier, where you are from will affect how you might view something. The same goes to where you get your education. As I mentioned before, the lessons I was t taught here differed from those I was taught whilst I was at the American Academy. But history is history and you can't change how it happened, but you can change how you are taught it. For example, do you think wars here are taught with the same vigour overseas, where they don't directly affect those it's being taught to?" History of the world can be taught all over, but if it held no meaning, it wouldn't truly have an effect on people.
"Team Green will be the Durmstrang Institute. Team White will have Hogwarts. Team Purple is the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. Now, here is the event I want you to discuss. The Tri-wizard Tournament. It has been held between the three schools for sometime before it was stopped. When it was brought back, Hogwarts played home to it. Now thinking about each school and their views, how do you think each school felt about it taking place here?" |