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"For this first lesson I have decided to let you choose what you learn." Issy's eyes took in all their faces before she continued. "This is why I asked you to prepare to be creative. Imagine for a moment," cue the walking around the room "that you could perform magic infront of muggles, and even use it to help them. I would like you to provide to me a situation where you think a muggle might need assistance, and which spell you would use to help them. Be it transfiguring something, conjuring something - I'm going to let you decide. I will list them on the board behind, then we shall have a vote on which one we learn in the second half of this lesson."
Isabelle stopped at the front of the room and folded her hands in front of her. She kept quiet for a few seconds to let what she had said sink in. Hopefully they would come up with something good. They looked like they might. "Bear in mind what you cannot do, as per the five exceptions behind me. Please let your imaginations go. Fire away!"
Since everything they were talking about was just review for the young Hufflepuff, she decided to let her legs swing idly as she listened to the conversation continue. It was interesting some of the questions that were asked, but she only just listened enough to keep up with the class, her mind on other unimportant things.
It was when the class turned to muggles that the lesson had her undivided attention. To say Arya was confused at to why all the lessons seemed to revolve around helping muggles when in reality they weren't allowed to would be an understatement. She just didn't get the sudden interest. She wasn't against it in any sense, but she still didn't get it. If anything, it was only disheartening to know they could only speak in hypothetical terms.
It was Sabel's first answer that turned her attention from the other students to him, more to tease him that a patronus is a charm and not a transfiguration spell, but his demeanor and the rest of his response that had her biting her tongue. That...she had no response for that, simply because she knew so much about that response and what hadn't been said. The only thing she could do was suck on her bottom lip and look at him with a worried expression before turning her eyes on the professor and slowly raising her hand.
"I don't know how much help we would be professor. Muggles are perfectly capable of helping themselves, and have done so for a long time." She chewed on her bottom lip thoughtfully, hand lowering.
"Most of the things already mentioned they can do on their own and wouldn't need our assistance. Other's situations would make them dependent on us, and we'd have to be around them constantly to help in those cases." She paused when she realized she was rambling a bit and focused on the question posed.
"I guess....if we wanted to assist them in anything....that they couldn't already do on their own...we could transfigure them into animals they wish to study....see how it is to live be the creature and stuff." SHE wouldn't want to be any creature, but she knew for a fact that some muggles would.
"Though....they could still could become dependent on us for that." Arya frowned at her response, crossing her arms over her chest. This topic just became more confusing.