Luna laughed for a minute ''Well you are a Ravenclaw'' said Luna brightly ''And I would'nt necssaily say you aren't crazy at times'' said Luna smiling at Olivia
''And that gives you points for Prefect'' said Luna and then laughing

Fallon tried not to giggle as Professor Cerulean introduced the lesson in pirate speak. It was pretty awesome! She was starting to actually enjoy going to this class. Fallon looked down at the quiz on her desk. As she went through it...she couldn't help but chuckle at a few of the questions. Once she was done she quickly wrote it on a piece of parchment and set it in front of her. She even wrote the meaning on the back because it was just too funny.

SPOILER!!: name card

Front: Dirty Mary Rackham
Back: You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Carter down at his results and blinked twice.

Red Harry Flint?

At least it wasn't Red Hairy Flint.

He scribbled that name on a parchment and propped it up on the front of his desk.

SPOILER!!: Description

Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

He blinked again when he read the description. He even read it once with his eyepatch lifted up to make sure he read it right.

You're easily chipped... and sparky? What in Merlin's name did that mean?

He then glanced at Caroline's name: Red Charity Kidd. At least they were both 'Red' together.

Quiz? We're taking a quiz?
The Slytherin lad grimaced and eyed the door, for once regretful to having sat so far from it. He was still considering making a dash for it when the parchment materialized on his table. Rats! No escaping this innit?

Then it was apparently about a pirate name? Eh? Whatever. Scrible scrible. Scrible scrible. And we have....

*blink*

IronMan? hehehehe.


He glanced at the other parchments, and had to chuckle at some of the ladies with the Dirty nicks. Oi! Wonder if they wanted to know what a dude thinks of them nicks.

And he couldnt help glance over at Jimmy's desk to read...
*coughsnort*

Ok he couldn't help himself.

Amy began to do the quiz, grinning to herself, Sammy was missing out being a pirate, she'd have to gloat about it later. Yep, she would, she continued to complete the quiz grinning. She loved quizes...generally they were stuff like "what character are you?" but this, this worked her a new name. Yes. And that was cool



Hmmm....she wasn't so down with the "Flint"....

She couldn't change it to girls name could she? But a pirate one. Like ummm, LIZ.

Yeah

*scribble*

Daisy looked down at the quiz. A pirate lesson. That was cool. She had never expected this. Maybe the professor wasn't as sane as Daisy thought....
She filled out the quiz slowly, putting her quill into her mouth thinking it was a sugar one. After spitting it out and trying to get bird feather taste out of her mouth, Daisy finished the quiz.


Red Mary Rackham

That was a pretty cool pirate name, to be honest and it even matched her costume, which was red. This is going to be a fun lesson, thought Daisy....

Snorting, Thea wrote down her pirate name and description her parchment:

Text Cut: thea's pirate name!

Iron Ethel Kidd


A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you a tough person. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

Pushing her parchment towards the front of her desk she smiled. Matt would agree with this.. she looked around but couldn't see head nor tail of him. Hm..
Rolling her eyes, she returned her attention back to the front, hoping they would move on soon..

Daichi looked at the piece of parchment in front of him. He turned it around and looked through the questions. They were weird yet..cool. Some words he didn't even understand so he just picked an answer randomly by closing his eyes and pressing his quill on the parchment.

When he was done he looked up his name and wrote it down with a slight frown and his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth.



Placing the quill down , Daichi leaned back in his chair and waited for the others to finish their quiz. Or..no..wait, is he Daichi now or William? O_o This is making him confused~!

Ariana grinned in response to the Professor's 'Ahoy,' and sat down cheerfully. Seeing the quiz appear on her paper, she took it, checking off each answer as she noticed how odd the questions were. Oddly enough, some of the questions seemed very muggle, like the one about Bill Gates... how on earth were purebloods supposed to know who he is? Oh, well, she kept filling out the quiz.

When she finished and her name appeared, it said she was 'mad'. Was she crazy? Welll.... it had been said... many times.... Ariana grabbed a piece of parchment, wrote her name on it, and made a tent out of it to show off her name, 'Mad Anne Flint'



Ariana saw Daichi next to her, and leaned over to see his name. Red William Bonney? Hmm. She grinned in his direction. Pirate names were FUN!

Nika liked this class more and more every minute. The first lesson they had a party and now they were on a ship. HISTORY OF MAGIC IS GREAT! And Nika thought it would be boring... pffttt. She eagerly took the quiz as fast as she could and got her pirate name happily. She beamed as she wrote it down a peice of parchment and propped it up so it could serve as a name tag.

Chloe took a look at the parchment the professor was referring to and could not help but chckle at some of the questions possible responses. She decided to fill in most of the crudest ones and only be honest some of the time. When she read her results she smiled, she certainly was not suprised with the answers she gave though she did wonder why charity would be in the name.

Chloe then pushed her parchment to the end of her desk and sat back and looked at all the other, man this was a hoot.

Uh, woah. Samira had never taken a quiz on her...pirate name. Ok, weird, but she didn't mind. It was kind of different, and Samira liked different. So, without further ado, she took the quiz.



Hm...that wasn't bad. Mary wasn't a horrible name...and Samira did like cash. Well, it could be worse, she thought with a smirk.



Uh...Samira did not go wherever the wind took her, thank you very much! She went wherever logic took her. And that was usually the logical path. But then again...she was musical, and she certainly did have flair and style. This was very acceptable. Samira felt pleased.

" A pirate name ? Well, That sounded Fun " Isabella Thought . She took the quiz Reading Every Question Througly . Finishing Her Quiz She Found Out her Name which Was
BLOODY MARY FLINT .

DESCRIPTION :
Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it's the open sea. For others (the masochists), it's the food. For you, it's definitely the fighting. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

O____O

Riley had read the announcement in the Common Room that mentioned Pirates and the idea that they could wear pirate gear so he did that and understood but was not sure why the Professor was talking like that. Did they all talk like that in the old days? Geez.

He took the quiz that was waiting for him on the desk and answered each question carefully and grinned when he saw his Pirate name and the explination underneath, that sounded about right!

Settling into his desk, a parchement and quill on the top so he could take notes, Simon looked back up at the front...fore of the ship as Professor Cerulean spoke begining class. Pirate names?...like he needed on of those he mused to himself with a raised eyebrow, looking down at the parchement that appeared in front of him. Picking up his quill he went to work filling it out not wanting to take the assumed fun out of the lesson.

SPOILER!!: Pirate name

Dirty Sam Cash


You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine. Arr!

The captain couldn't help but frown at his result and description. How can ye be dirty if you clean offen? Simon pushed it aside so it was still present but he didn't need to look at it.

Ariella completed the quiz in a few minutes. She had her name, but was a little offended. Oh well. It was just a pirate name, right? She shrugged it off and wrote her pirate name neatly on her parchment in purple ink.



She pushed it to the edge of her desk and stood it upright, eager to get on with the lesson.

The professor smiled as the students one by one finished up the little quiz. She flicked her sword and all of the papers with their pirate names shot into the air and flew towards the board. As they reached the board, it looked as though they were absorbed into the board and then...one by one...each person's name and pirate name was listed across the board in an old fashioned type handwritting.



Gemma turned to watch and once everyone's name was done being written out on the board, she turned back to the class and with a smile said, "Arg! Ye be some strong pirate names!" she said with a little wink as she held up her sword and pointed it out at the classroom.

She put her sword down on the handrail in front of her and smiled suddenly talking like herself again, "Hello everyone! And welcome again to Lesson Two of History of Magic! This week we will be covering a subject that is rooted in both Magic and Muggle history. This is something that just recently has sparked the interest of many wizards here at Hogwarts and in the Wizarding Community with the arrival of our mystery ship in the lake..." she said motioning with her hand out the window that faced the mystery ship.

She paused and then glanced across the faces of the students, "Ay! I be talkin' about Pirates!" she said with a smile and her best pirate accent.

"Pirates are something that can be found in both Muggle and Wizarding history. And in both accounts are often linked to some kind of magic. In the wizarding world, most of the magic that the pirates used is easily explained. In the Muggle world, the magic was a mystery in their stories." she said with a smile.

"I had you take the pirate name quiz just as something fun...don't worry I won't call any of you by those names." the professor said with a little nod up and down. "But before we get too far into pirates, can anyone name any famous or even fictional pirates from either the wizarding or muggle world and stories?" she said looking out into the crowd.



OOC: Please have fun listing these pirates. They can be anything from movie pirates to real pirates to fairy tale pirates to anything. Please limit your answers to one to give the others a chance to answer! I'll give you a little bit of time to get answers in! Don't forget to raise your hand first! And remember there should be no talking/chatting cuz Gemma is stalking watching you...

Amy put up her hand BLACCCKKKBEEEAARRDDDD Yarr Matey Amy nodded and HOOK and Jack Sparrow she continued, grinning, she loved pirates, and she particulary loved Jack Sparrow. Not Elizabeth Swan, but Jack, Jack was cool, and so was Angelica. She was cool.

Ariella tried to remember a pirate name. Yes, she remembered her muggle friend telling her about some pirate from a movie......hmm.....

Her hand shot up into the air. "Captain Jack Sparrow," she said. "A muggle pirate. He's a fictional character from some pirate movie. I think it's called....Pirates of the Mediterranean? Or no, maybe it's Pirates of the Caribbean?" She thought about this for a minute. "Yes, it's Pirates of the Caribbean."

Oh, finally. The normal, mature part of the class. Thinking the question for a moment, Evan raised his hand to give a real, and rather scary example. "There were the pirates of Somalia," he said, frowning as he tried to remember the details. "They would hijack the ships passing through Aden... and they would demand astronomical amount of money from their countries."

Jamie happily took the name quiz aaand.... "Dread Pirate Rackham!"

Oh YES. Did he want to get any cooler?! Owhh, he wanted the teacher to call him by his pirate name. It was way better than Jamie Keaton...

Errmm... famous pirates, famous pirates. Alls he could think of was ones from movies. Raising his hand, Jamie said,"Captain Hook." From that muggle movie, Peter Pan. There were plenty more, he was sure, but Hook and maybe Sparrow were all that came to mind. MERLIN, History of Magic was absolutely awesome.

Isabella Was Glad That They Would Not be Called by Those Pirate names since she really didn't like her own . Raising her hand she said , " Professor I've Heard Of Captian Morgan Adams She Was In A Muggle Movie Called Cutthroat Island . " Finishing Her sentence Bella Wondered If The pirate Was named Morgan But She Didn't Say anything just incase .

Famous pirates? Ryden perked up at the mention of it. THIS was ok. This she could handle. Easily. There were TONNES. Plus, hello?! Treasure Island. One of Ryden's personal favourites.

Hmm. "Well, there was Captain Flint, professor, from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson..." she said, raising her hand. Of course, Long John Silver was another one but Captain Flint, even though he never appeared, was still the one to mention. Yep yep.

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Looking around, he read some people's names... one Rackham draw his attention... and he grinned at last, at Mina, who was sitting a few desks away. So she was dirty and a Rackham too. 'Sweet!' he mouthed the word towards her, though his mind did notice their surnames were the same... and he couldn't help but think maybe it was a sign. His smile froze for a moment as his gaze turned dreamy into her parchment, but no, he pushed the idea aside. It was stupid to think such things at Hogwarts.[/B]

Catching a glance of Evan not to far from herself, Mina glanced at his pirate name and smiled. "Thanks" she mouthed back. The whole dirty part wasn't sitting well with her still, but the whole Rackham part wasn't all that bad. Plus it looked like her own boyfriend was on too. Added bonus in her mind and maybe it was a bit of a sign, well if she believed in those kind of things. The thought of having the same surname as Evan did make her smile, but she pushed the thoughts to the back of her mind for the moment. She needed to focus on the lesson first, but that didn't mean she would keep the thoughts in her mind for later.

Noticing all the names appearing on the board, she turned her full attention back to their pirate professor.

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Originally Posted by Lezleighd

"Pirates are something that can be found in both Muggle and Wizarding history. And in both accounts are often linked to some kind of magic. In the wizarding world, most of the magic that the pirates used is easily explained. In the Muggle world, the magic was a mystery in their stories." she said with a smile.

"I had you take the pirate name quiz just as something fun...don't worry I won't call any of you by those names." the professor said with a little nod up and down. "But before we get too far into pirates, can anyone name any famous or even fictional pirates from either the wizarding or muggle world and stories?" she said looking out into the crowd.

Thinking about it for a moment, she raised her hand. "The Dread Pirate Roberts." Okay, he was a fictional pirate in one of her favourite books and all; but he was still a pirate and that's all that mattered.

...Well, Evelyn wasn't all that interested in pirates. She was more interested in WHY people were interested in the subject.This seriously wasn't the first time people saw a ship right?

However, even if she didn't dress up as a pirate or study their lingo, she did look up information about them. After all, she at least wanted to know what in Merlin's beard they would be discussing today. Though why this was tied into muggle history when they should be learning about the wizarding history was beyond her. "There was a pirate named Captain Howell Davis." she said after raising her hand. "Noted for his intelligent and cunning ways to get what he wanted instead of using weapons like the other captains." And apparently noted for his looks as well.

Shame that he didn't last too long.