SPOILER!!: The Invisible Man
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Jared considered her answer.
"I suppose you know it's not a good idea to use a phrase if you don't know its meaning?" Just saying. "You've all provided some good insight into how the muggle view of ghosts differs from ours," Jared said, nodding at each answer. Some of them had been quite excellent. "Take two points each."
"It seems that, as opposed to the average witch or wizard's take on ghosts, the average muggle fears or does not believe in them. There are exceptions, of course but, speaking on a general basis, fear of the unknown and uncertain is dominant. I believe that is one reason the muggle world has a larger market for ghost stories. But, all that aside, is it always ghosts that muggles are dealing with? Like Harper and Treyen have said, a large number of muggles tend to think 'ghost!' in the face of strange occurrences - such as items moving on their own - that a witch or wizard could find perfectly reasonable explanations for. For example --"
He cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself and, now invisible, picked up one of the boxes of chocolates on the ground and moved it from one spot to another. Then he cast the counter-charm, so that he could be seen again. "Now, all of you just saw the box of chocolates moving 'on its own.' But that was definitely not the work of a ghost. Can anyone explain what I'm getting at?" OOC: There are no right or wrong answers. Not really. 
The third year pursed her lips together.
"No, well, I kind of know what it means. I just can't explain it. It's like the sky...you know that it's the thing up there that goes blue in the daytime and black at night, but you don't really know what it is."
Ghosts scarey? Hah. Hahahahaha. Why would a ghost be scary? They can't do anything to you. Muggles were just oh-so silly sometimes.
Ellie easily became distracted when Little Professor went invisible and was insanely jealous. Ellie wanted to go invisible tooo!
She thought he might move around an appear somewhere else, but she didn't feel him move (and she was RIGHT there). But she saw him move the chocolates.
GASP.
Whyy was he messing with the chocolates?!
Oh. No. Nevermind. He'd reappeared and the chocolates were no different. All was right in the world.
Blink.
"But they weren't moving on their own. You moved them. I saw you...ish." Because she saw him go invisible, then the chocolates moved, so she kinda saw him move them, yeah?
Sighing, she turned her attention back to the marshmallow on the end of her stick... Only to find that it wasn't there. That it had fallen while she watched the Amazing Invisible Man. Thanks a lot, Professor Deshdadhd.
POUT.