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[COLOR="Teal"]"So let's start with the first form of Muggle Magic..." she paused and walked over to a table that was covered with a green table cloth and spotlighted in green as well. "The first one is called Close Up magic. It's the type that requires the least skill and many can do it with just a little practice. It usually involves the use of simple things such as a deck of cards, some small balls or a coin. It entails making people believe in one thing but doing something else. This kind of trick proves that the hand is faster than the eye. " she paused for just a second so the board could keep notes in green to match the table and spotlight. "An example of this type of magic was my extremely lame rings trick from earlier"
"Can anyone name some more Close Up Magic tricks that they have witnessed or heard about?" she said glancing over the crowd.
Oh, great. This was why Sierra hated Muggle Studies class. They were always asked to provide suggestions on Muggle things she'd never experienced before. The only Close Up Magic tricks she'd ever heard of were the ones the professor just explained.
She raised her hand.
"Professor, I'm a pureblood witch. I've never..." She trailed off. She hated admitting failure, and that's what she saw this as.
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Lezleighd "The next type of Muggle Magic is called platform magic. It can also be known as parlor magic," "club magic" or "cabaret magic". This is done in a much larger scale than the first. Some tricks of this type that are well-known include cutting a person that is inside a box in half or making a person who's lying down levitate in the air after the table below has been removed. " she paused and then continued, "This type of magic usually requires an assistant or an audience member in order to make it happen." She flicked her wand and a screen dropped down on the edge of the stage. The stage lights dropped and a video began playing on the screen giving an example of platform magic.
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Actually a pretty cool trick from America's Got Talent a few seasons back!
After the video finished, she glanced out at the students again, "Some famous platform magicians are Penn & Teller and the gentleman you just saw, Kevin James." she paused as the screen disappeared into thin air. "Can anyone give me more examples of platform magic? Now remember that this isn't making huge items disappear or anything crazy like that...we aren't to those tricks yet..." "Eww," Sierra whispered to herself. She eyed the rest of the video with disgust.
"They just diffindo'ed that man..." Again, she rolled her eyes. She had very, very little experiences with Muggles and their way of living, so how was she meant to provide an answer to this? She raised her hand again.
"Okay, so, I don't know any platform magic. I'm a pureblood witch, and I've just never had many experiences with the Muggle way of doing things," she said.
"...but, umm, yeah. They just diffindo'ed that man..."
Or, at least, that's what it looked like to her.