Jaina giggled some more. "Well, there are fire engines and there are fire trucks. If it's a brush fire, then you would need a brush truck or fire helicopter. My next door neighbor was a fireman and he told Joshua and I all about the fire equipment." She would have just said fire engines years ago, but since she got the lesson, she now knew the difference. "You could use transfiguration if there was an accident. Like if two cars hit and someone was pinned in one of them, you could transfigure the piece trapping them into paper so it could be broken easily. Just a thought." She had lots of thoughts on how to help muggles....after all, she was could at helping people.

Help muggles with magic? Why had the school become the muggle protection adgency?

"Well you could use accio to summon something they needed..." But that's kind of like stealing... sort of...
"Or just basic charms could help them. Everyone really - muggle and wizard alike. Like using magic to fix something broken, light a fire, a cheering charm's always useful as well"

Yep, Emily had used a few of them at home.

"But those are just basic spells. If we were helping them on a big scale it would be like... saving their lives? Like, if they fell off a high level you could use a Cushioning Charm. Or like putting protective enchantments around their houses..."

Yep, her parents had told her all about doing that during the great war. Every life is important!

"Very good, Isobel. Aguamenti could have many uses for helping - drinking water, putting out fires etcetera." Isabelle smiled and nodded her head. A good start, and the chalk was going to be working overtime.


"Ahh rats, yes. Some muggles keep them as pets, while others don't want anything to do with them. Transfiguring them would be good for some." Another smile.


Well didn't this one have an imagination on her. A hole with sharp sticks? Perhaps she'd been watching muggle adventure movies or something. "Interesting scenario, Lexi. But turning the sticks into something more bouncy would help there, yes." Wow. Just...wow.


"Conjuring oil, most helpful in that situation. Well done Conan. Although we would have to be careful to get the right sort of oil, or I hear, cars can break down with the wrong stuff." Or so her sister helpfully told her once. Yeah, her brother-in-law could be - silly - at times.


Mhmm. Right. The first child to make the point that out. Isabelle smiled and lowered her head. Maybe she should have mentioned it was hypothetical, and she wasn't planning on having muggles in the classroom? "In that case then, Sierra, maybe you would be able to conjure something medical related to help them? A cold flannel for their head perhaps?"

"I would say Accio is more of a charm, as we are not conjuring or changing the appearance of the thing. And I was more thinking about little ways we could help them, rather than teach them things. They'll never be able to perform magic, as you know. But helping with chores in some way for a muggle you know, is not a bad idea. Thank you." Smiling, Issy turned towards the next person.


Isabelle narrowed her eyes at the older boy to her left. SOmething was wrong with him, he seemed - angry, was it? "More a charm, dear, but certainly helpful. And that is the sort of helpful idea I was after....Are you - are you alright, Mr Dakest?" Mhmm, she was concerned.


"I think for that one to work the water would need to be contained in something, as water itself is a very broad thing...." Yes, she was being vague. Some of the ideas were leaving her speechless.


"You would have to be lost as well, in that scenario, Zane. And if you knew enough of the woods layout to make a map for it, would you be lost in the first place?" What was the phrase? Devil's Advocate? "But you have given me an idea for another spell, thank you!" But maybe for another lesson, she'd see how this one went.


"Conjuring plain notebooks is relatively simple, but as you say, there are alot of words in novels and such, and you'd need to know them all or...you'd get a very strange muddled up book, I'd think." Isabelle gave Jake a warm smile of acknowledgement.


"Ahh just the sort of thing I was after, Miss...Reagan. And that would be a lovely thing to do, yes." A nod and smile, before Issy checked that all the achievable answers were being taken down on the board.


"Good thinking, Georgiana! Yes Incarcifors transfigures an object to capture something. Most useful - could even be good for the rat scenario mentioned earlier." Hmmm, maybe that would be a good one to learn? Or maybe she would still let them choose. It might be a long lesson. "Although I think transfiguring dangerous animals in order to recapture them and release them back to where they should be is admirable, I doubt we'd be able to achieve that in this classroom." Wink.


"Excellent idea. Or perhaps, just expanding on that, we could transfigure an object into a water pump to achieve the same the same effect?"


"Good idea. Something to drink from if they were thirsty. Good." Another one on the board.


"I would say that would be an extremely helpful thing for you to do, although, as you say, not something we can practice here today." Isabelle scratched her chin as she thought about the girl's question. "Technically you disappear from the place you started in, and reappear somewhere else, so it's not vanishing as such. When vanishing an object it goes into a state of non-existence until it is brought back - if it's brought back. Apparition is slightly different to that." Did that make sense?


"Yes, good one. I always do that with my own things, seeing as I tend to take more than I need." Smiling at the girl, Issy moved on.


Yep, trouble. She could feel it. In her bones.

"Why wouldn't you want to help, Mister Kim? Some muggles can find themselves in situations that they can't get out of without assistance. And if we, as a magical population, come across something like this and can use our powers to help - why shouldn't we? Hypothetically of course." The Statute prevented any of this from becoming actuality. Mores the pity.

"But I do like your ladder idea, good thinking." And mind. The. Chair. "I did tell you to be careful," Issy said, trying not to roll her eyes.


"Good idea, yes, although you would have to be there with them." And not many wizards of witches worked in muggle areas. "What sort of thing would you do? Transfiguration wise."


"Incendio, good idea. You could always conjure something to help with the injuries, too." Kill two birds with one stone. Or whatever the saying was.


Tickle war. These kids were actually amusing. "Wouldn't that be considered cheating, Miss Adler?" Was all Isabelle said. Not to mention it was more a charm anyway, but the cheating comment would suffice. Heh.


Arya seemed to be a deep thinker, and she had a point. To an extent.

"Everyone needs help occasionally, Arya, even muggles. They can't all help themselves, especially in some situations - the ladder and roof for instance." Probably a lame example, but she wanted to use one a child had already said. "If we can use magic to assist, even if it's just a little bit because it was the easier option, wouldn't you want to?"

Isabelle smiled at the girl, hoping that she could see from her view why they were doing this lesson. She knew muggles weren't completely helpless, but being helpful wasn't a bad thing. "And I think maybe Human Transfiguration is a bit much for the first lesson of term, but it is a good idea. Thank you."


"Another one for Aguamenti, good. I like the simple ideas you guys are coming up with. Much easier to envisage it being taught in the lesson." Isabelle chuckled and placed her hands in her pockets as she walked around the room, and onto the next person.


"A mattress large enough for an aeroplane to land on? Urrrr well, it would take a great deal of concentration and time to get it large enough, but I suppose you could do, yes. Not today though I don't think - the room isn't quite large enough for one of that size." Crinkling her nose as she smiled, Issy nodded at the girl. Disasters seemed to be high on the list of answers.


Perhaps not useful in helping muggles, unless....Hmm. But Incarcifors certainly was. "Incarcifors is very good, as I said. You can capture a great many things with it. Lapifors maybe for another day?" When the subject wasn't muggles. Heh. "Good thinking, Kurumi."


"Assuming they don't already have one, conjuring or transfiguring a hanky is a nice idea." Although why hiking, Isabelle had no idea. Kids.


"Alohomora is more of a charm, but some good ideas there." Although a universal key to fit might be a challenge for them. Hmmm.


"Shelter or repairing something, good, yes." Smiling, Issy thought back to the notes she'd had from what they learnt last term. Tents, wasn't it? Maybe not for this lesson then.


"Similar to what Ivory said, yes. Although I'm not sure water cleansing would be considered transfiguration, but as I said, creating pumps to help with that could work." Smile.


OOC: If you are going to pretend to be here all the time, please just pick up from the last question asked, and not post answers for everything, or I will dock points in the future. Just a warning.

"Entertaining is admirable, if not helpful. But good, thank you." Loadssss of answers to be doing with. Isabelle was glad she wasn't the one writing them down.


Hmm, another disaster. Not the answer, the problem that he gave as a situation. Obviously. Non of the answers had been complete disasters. Except maybe the hole and sticks - not sure where that one came from. Heh.

"Ahh yes, I think I remember reading about that. Little bit before my time, but you are right - being able to help with the clean up would have been good. Transfiguring the lumps of congealed oil and mess into something more green, as it were, is an admirable idea."


What was it with them and their ideas of where muggles would get stuck? Isabelle kept her giggles in as another child mentioned a different place. A desert. Yes. "Although it needn't be a desert, just anywhere that it would difficult to find petrol or gasoline. Good idea."


"Build up the sides of riverbanks, you mean? I suppose you could try, Mia, yes. But sometimes nature just cannot be controlled, so whether it would work sufficiently is another matter." Although Merlin knows it was a good idea.


Simple but effective ways. Just what Isabelle had had in mind when she set the lesson, even if they had gone off in a disaster scenario tangent. "Although as it stands by law, Mister Leone, we couldn't even do that for fear of someone seeing. My question is more based on the hypothetical situation of being able to be open about ourselves. What sort of thing would you do?"


"At the moment yes, Lucy, we would be in danger of that happening. But you never know what might happen in the future." At least they were clued up on the fact the Statute made it impossible for them to actually do any of this for real.

"Well money is one of the five exceptions, so we couldn't conjure it or duplicate it for anyone. If they had some of their own, and knew where it was, you could summon it for them, but that's all."


"Possibly yes. Especially if they were going near something dangerous." Smile. Decent thinking.


"Interesting, and very helpful. And the doves would be a sweet touch, if not helpful in a situation." Issy smiled some more and moved to the front of the room as the last of the ideas were mentioned.


"I think perhaps you could transfigure a chair or table leg into a false one, yes. Not a real leg though unfortunately." Yes, that wouldn't work.


"That would be a very nice thing for you to do, Patroclus." Very nice indeed. "Transfiguring things into bedding or covers or some such thing is a good idea as well, to add to yours." Yep, her brain was working with the ideas the kids were giving her. And at least he'd said multiply the food, not conjure. He'd paid attention. Good Prefect.


Okay, so not everyone wanted to help. The non-charitable ones were showing their hand. Mwahaha. *cough* "I'm not saying we are going to do it in front of muggles, Miss Flores-Sheperd, merely what we would do IF we could. I'm just asking you to use your imagination to come up with ideas to help your fellow human beings. We are better equipped to help after all. If a muggle couldn't help themselves, waiting for another muggle to come along or using muggle methods might not be the easiest or best thing to do. Wouldn't being charitable be nice?"

Raising an eyebrow at the Slytherin, Isabelle gave her a smile. She wasn't going to get angry for another person's opinion, even if it didn't really match her own.


"Aguamenti again, yes good. That is assuming you knew a muggle to get lost with..." Isabelle grinned. So many muggles getting lost. Were they all that vague? Meh, her brother-in-law maybe.


"Conjuring food is one of the five exceptions, dear. But you could summon it or multiply any you already have, certainly. And books would be more difficult as I said before." But good try, yes.


She had really thought about that. Deeply thought, it seemed. Issy was impressed, and said so. "I'm impressed that you went so detailed into that scenario, Charlotte. Human transfiguration is a complex area however, and sometimes painful, so if it went wrong you might do more harm than good. But I do like your thinking."


"I like the sound of that idea, Miss Maloney. Making the hard to move pieces into something soft and malleable would make the task of removing it easier." And thus the chance of the injured getting worse is reduced. Nice.


"I was thinking more along the lines of transfiguration spells, such as the fire - which is a good idea to warm a person. The cheering charm, and the cushioning charm would be more Professor Descoteaux's area, I believe. But they are good ideas for helping."

With a flick of her wand the chalk dropped won again and a list was visible on the board. "Now I have only included the ones that we can possibly practice in the lesson today. That is not to say any of the ideas were bad ones, just maybe not practical for right now, inside a classroom." Isabelle smiled as she turned away from the students and walked over to the board.

OOC: I will add in here anyone I missed while typing this, but for now I will move on to the next part. Choosing what to do!

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"Now then, as you can see it's not a long list, due in part to what I mentioned about difficulty, time, space, etcetera. But I would like you to choose which of these spells you would like to try and learn today. One vote each please." With a smile, Isabelle looked out across the assembled students. She had faith they could do any of them.

"The compass thing looks pretty cool," Jake suggested, just moving his hand slightly so it was up-ish from where he was leaning on the table. "'Cause, you know, they can't do the four points. To be honest, I just like the look of it. Muggles aren't gonna have a look in."

A thought occured to Jake and he suddenly looked under the table, looking up at the underside. When he came back to the surface, it was with a hint of disappointment on his face.

Shut up. He's normal.

Satine wrote down the list and circled her vote and then checked one more time to make sure that was for sure her choice. She smiled and then raised her hand,

"Professor, I vote for #5-The compass one." she said with a smile still glancing at her circled list.

What would he do? Cedric mulled over. But then decided, considering how many varied answers the other students come up with, that all that one could do to help a muggle had already been stated, let alone the far-fetched ones. But he simply couldn't help himself so he said, "A muggle driver was driving on a lonely, dark road. His car's headlights were broken so it simply wouldn't work but he was on a tight time so he wouldn't stop driving. He didn't know, both side of the roads were perilous cliffs. I will conjure light to guide him through his way." Cedric wasn't really sure if he made sense at all but he had just to say what he got to say.

Cedric peered at the board in utmost skepticism. Aguamenti was a well, an easy spell to do but he thought it would be boring to learn it... most especially when you already knew the spell. Conjuring oil would get them dirty. Turning something into a handkerchief could be fun for you could detail it with intricate details, letting your creative juices flow, but for what? Watches into compass, interesting enough but he thought they've done that before, didn't they? Hmm. Ugh, decisions. "I'd like to learn Incarcifors, professor."

Aguamenti? Knew it!
Conjure oil? Emily didn't like the smell of oil, so no!
Incarcifors? Cool, but she coudn't see when she would ever need that.
Item into a handkerchief? Already had one!
Watch/other item into a compass? That sounded useful! She was always getting lost.

"I think the watch into a compass would be the most useful Professor!" she smiled. Magic was so cool! Hopefully they could do them all over the lessons, but for now - watch to compass. Sorted.

"Professor, why have the classes changed from learning magic to helping muggles? I mean It's alright, I guess, to help muggles, but why the change?"

He thought about the opening feast he went to and was introduced to Mr Gervic.

"I mean most of the muggles I've talked to believe in fate and faith rather than actually believing there is magic in the world they live in."

Chloe knew augmenti so that was out. A spell to to change an object into a compass is boring. Incaerfus is interesting changing an object into a cage but how useful is that really? And the hankerchief one sounded just stupid. That left just one. She raised her hand and responded, "I would atrumia partum to conjure oil cause oil can be used to run so many things atleast in the muggle world which I would like to properly explore abit someday".

Jaina turned her head and looked at the Slytherin boy. "You know, some muggles do believe in magic. Don't let some that strictly believe in faith and fate count for everyone." She couldn't understand why he would lump everyone together like that. "After all, I don't lump all wizards and witches together and say that they could careless what happens to us muggleborns and our families." True, she didn't get along with her parents, but still, they were her parents.

"Professor, I vote for #1," Jaina said with her hand raised.

Helena looked carefully at the options on the board, then raised her hand. "I'll vote for the compass idea."

Well, it sounded pretty interesting and useful not only for muggles, but for her as well. Oh wait, there's that spell, she thought, feeling her cheeks turn pink.

OOC: Sorry about earlier.

Dahlia pondered the options. A hankerchief could always come in handy.

She raised her hand. "I'd like to see number 4."

So that was - 4 for compass, and one each for Aguamenti, oil, handkerchief and Incarcifors. Good.

"Thank you for the votes guys, I'll leave it open until you all decide."(OOC: For about another hour, then we'll get onto practice) Isabelle, flicked her wand at the chalk again and it scribbled down the current numbers. "I would just like to say, that I know a couple of these spells might seem easy to you older students, but I wanted to provide a broad range of options, to include those that are in first and second year and might not know how to conjure water yet." Bear that in mind youngun's.

Smiling, she turned her attention to the boy who just asked a question, rather than vote...


"We are still going to learn magic, Mister Trevors, I just thought it would be nice to have a discussion on what use we could put the magic towards." Isabelle remained calm as she spoke. The boy didn't seem that interested in the subject of muggles. "I can't say what my fellow professors have been teaching you, it is up to them. But we do stick to the curriculum," she finished with a nod.

"Thank you, Jaina, I can handle it," Isabelle smiled, giving the girl a thankful look. "And you are right, some muggles do enjoy magic, they just think it's different to what it actually is. And you can't really say that everyone feels that magic isn't real, Benjamin, after all we don't know all the muggles in the world."

Clearing her throat, Issy walked back to her desk and leant against it, rubbing her temples. She'd need a clear head. Maybe she should open the windows after all.

Chyler nodded and wrote what the Professor said as a side note, since it wasn't really Transfiguration but might help her with example giving when trying to prove or disprove theories. Examples were always good for those. Putting her quill back into the inkwell, the redhead raised her green orbs back to the board and quickly read over the list of things. None of them particularly appealed to her, although the fifth one was pretty ok.

"Professor, I vote for the fifth," Chyler raised her hand and glanced at the option again. Meh, it was the best one there. Sighing, she leaned back in her chair and waited patiently again for the lesson to pick up again.

Aha, creative people. But the suggested charms were mostly useless, in his eyes. Whatever. These were professor's picks. Raising his hand, he said "I say number two." Because that was the most interesting one. Compass one was mweh. Simple.

Kita frowned. Making decisions was definitely not her forte! She was still staring at the board and decided to go through an elimination process.

Aguamenti... check! Atrumia Partum? Conjuring oil was sure going to make the room stink. Incarcifors? Taberleta? Comletia? Why is it that she hadn't heard of these spells? Maybe it would be useful to learn the other spells.

Her stare turned into a glare. This was proving to be more difficult than she thought. A memory of a holiday popped into her head. She sat up and blinked. "I'll go with the compass one," she said, with a small smile on her face.

Melanie gazed up at the board, going over the choices. Hmm, what to pick? She already knew aguamenti, so that spell was out. The Hufflepuff would like to learn all the others, but one in particular stuck out in her mind. "I vote for Atrumia Partum... the oil conjuring spell." she decided, raising her hand high. She'd probably be driving soon, if her aunt kept her promise to teach her. And, really, who wanted to pay for oil?

Melanie just sorta nodded at what the professor said about some of the spells seeming easy to older students. The water conjuring spell was the only spell she knew on the board and, honestly, the only thing she considered as she looked over the other spells was their usefulness.

Oh good question! why didn't he want to help out a muggle? "I don't know" Hyun said and looked at his fingernails, examining them. "muggles have adapted themselves in to the world without having to use magic so why reveal the magical world? If they knew about magic the whole world population would want to learn magic and i think there will be fights over it because they simply..can't do it. They will get frustrated and demand to know how we use it?" oh wow what a lame answer but it was the best rambling he could think of at the moment.

He grinned stupidly at the professor's comment. "Actually, professor, you never told me to be careful, just that i should not break the chair and i didn't" He couldn't help it.
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Still no wand work? Hyun was slowly getting impatient. He really wanted to do magic so the faster he voted on one of the examples the better. He raised his hand in the air (this time his left hand, for some chance). "I'll vote for the compass, professor" It sounded the most useful. He did, however liked the oil example but it would only make a mess. And it was only because oil = money ...and he had money.

So it wasn't just her, the professor had noticed something was wrong with Sabel as well. Her eyes flicked over to him, considering her friend for a moment before turning back to the professor when she responded to her answer.

Arya knew what the professor was saying was true. Everyone does need help, but the thought that they were specifically speaking of muggles didn't sit well with her. Or maybe it was the way the professor phrased her question? Nodding her head slowly, she pushed aside all the other question swirling around in her head for the moment. Yes, for the most part, she would want to use magic to assist because it was the easier option, but she couldn't. Hm.

No, she still didn't understand why they were doing this lesson. At least why it was being tied to muggles, but she knew her questioning the professor could go on all day, and simply nodded her head again at the response to her idea. Human transfiguration wasn't something she wanted to try right now anyway.

Turning her eyes to the list on the board, immediately knowing what spell she wanted to learn. "I'd like to learn Comletia." Her hand went up briefly. It would come handy when she had to go camping, and when she was allowed to use magic outside of school.

Luin smiled as the teacher replied to her answer happy that she came up with something interesting, as she wasn't too sure about most things that muggles did in their everyday lives.


Luin jotted down each of the ones that were listed.
She then thought about it for a little while, listening to some of the other student's answers, and then raised her hand, "I think turning watches or other items into compasses is a good one to do. It is something that would be very useful to anyone if they got lost anywhere and were unable to get away." Luin thought this class was going to be very interesting, she was definitely not expecting to be able to have so much student input to what was going to be taught to them, and especially about muggles. She never really knew much about what muggles but she figured is she could she would help them in some ways.

Jaina bowed her head down. "I'm sorry, professor. I didn't mean to let my temper get to me. It won't happen again." she said sheepishly. Well, if they didn't know it, now they did, she was muggleborn. She was just hoping that her hair hadn't changed to the bright red it would when she argued with her parents. To ensure this, she shook her head and replied, "I promise, it won't." There, maybe no one noticed if it did

Lexi smiled at the Professor and nodded her head. As she went into thinking mode she tried to decide what would be the most useful spell. Wellll they could always cast the point me spell turning their wands into a compass of sorts... it would point North. Hmm. |Hehehe. A cage WOULD be useful.

Raising her hand she said, "I would like to learn Incarcifors." Simple as that.

A good point, certainly. Some muggles did seem to want to start a war over the most trivial of things, and magic wasn't that. "I can see your point, Hyun, but I hold the personal view that people should help people - and why should we hide our magic when it could possibly help, and we could all work together?" Now probably wasn't the time for a deep and meaningful talk on that subject though, so Isabelle merely smiled and moved away.

...Until he spoke again. "Be careful with your tone, Mister Kim. My patience and humour only stretch so far." Giving him a warning glance, she now DID turn her attention back to the rest of the class.

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"Thank you for all the votes, it would appear that the majority of you have chosen the compass spell. A useful one for those that don't want to constantly use Point Me! And want something more permanent." Muggles for instance. And the kids did seem to think they got lost alot, so why not learn this? Plus the fact you could use it then keep your wand free for other things. Anyway, moving on.

Walking to the table behind her desk, Isabelle took a deep breath and picked up one of the many boxes. "In here I have a range of watches - wrist ones, pockets ones, big, small. I'll pass them out to you all then we can concentrate on getting the incantation correct, along with the wand movement." Placing the box down on her desk, Issy lazily flicked her wand and watch after watch made it's way to a students desk. "Once you have had a chance to get the feel of your watch, you can try the proper pronunciation of the spell. WITHOUT wands first." She emphasised that bit. Didn't wand them to blow something up because they didn't do the right wand movement.

"Alright everyone. The incantation for this spell, as you can see on the board, is Comletia, and it is pronounced thus: Com-LET-e-AH. Have a go at getting that right, then we'll move to wands."




OOC: I'll be back a little later, feeling a bit ill right now. Please just have your character inspecting their watches and practising the incantation - NO WANDS YET. No excessive chatting please, just keep it to the learning. Thanks.

Ah. Eyeing the firstie population that posed possible explosions, Evan muttered to himself the incantation "Comletia--comletia--comletia!" Move onto the phase with wands, possibly quickly?

Ok, maybe he had gone a bit too far, but he loved getting on peoples nerves! Still , he also knew when it was time to stop before any points would be taken. Hyun looked up at the professor with an apologetic look on his face and nodded his head. He didn't like saying sorry so he hoped the professor would be ok with just the look.

And now for the fun part! Yes they were actually going to Transfigurate something! He grabbed his wand yet again as the last time but was stopped again when the professor said they were to practise without wand. Bleeeeh! Hyun shoved his wand back in his holster and took a deep sigh.

Watching as watches in all kinds of shapes flew around the room, Hyun looked to see a red banded wrist watch hovered towards his desk. He picked it up and examined it. The watch had no scratches or anything, it even had a cool little star in the middle! how cool was that?!

He placed the watch back on his desk and started to practise saying the incantation.

"Comuh let e ah
Comuh let e ah"

...wait that wasn't right... stupid accent.

Hyun tried again, this time listening with squinted eyes at how to pronounce it.
"Com let e ah! com let e ah , com let e ah , come let me ah....no wait, com let me ah~!
Comletia!"