Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa being the romantic that she was, raised her hand and answered,"Professor I think that the wizard did it because he was in love with the Princess and the only way to win her love AND the approval of her father, the King, was to save her. Plus I think that he wanted the opportunity to kiss her. I mean he could have easily just opened her mouth and poured it down her throat."

Originally Posted by hpfan18

Originally Posted by Gabrielle

Glenn looked reproachingly at the Professor as he snorted. She was being serious about her answer. It wasn't funny.

At the Professor's next comment, Glenn replied in a slightly hardened tone, "I guess like what she did with the Princess. Someone could make the potion and put make it prick some muggle and the muggles around would think they had fallen into some kind of coma..."

The badger answered the next question, "Well - he loved her, right?" She questioned, "He would want to save her."

Originally Posted by nups21

Huh? Why did the wizard save the princess? Why not? Ira was a bit confused by the question. So now couldn't a person save another's life?

She heard others' answers, and agreed with all. Yup, maybe it was like love at first sight? She raised her hand up and answered, "Professor, maybe because it was a case of love at first sight... and maybe because she was a princess... actually I think the latter might be the real reason" Because Ira didn't belive in love at first sight. Yup, Ira agreed with the general opinion that the Prince had his own selfish reasons..

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella frowned. There were probably many reasons a wizard would want to save a princess. "Well maybe he had a hero complex..." The first year had done it again, said the first thing that came to mind. She looked at Professor Scabior sheepishly, knowing this wasn't a great answer. It was a thing though right? The hero complex...Ella's mom was always saying that her dad had one...liked to save people and all that.

Originally Posted by iceblossom22

Raising her hand, she blinked twice. "He possibly either had a hero complex," she supplied. "Or he was just after the money and the King's personal favour."

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

"These people had to have been in it all for themselves," Sierra said, raising her hand. "I just can't believe that the Prince wasn't thinking of himself and all the glory and honor he'd receive for waking up that Princess." It was the logical thing to do. Wouldn't anybody want to go through with something if it'd bring them so much more in the long run? Only Hufflepuffs would believe all the true love mess.

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

The Ravenclaw stared innocently back. What? It could be very possible that that was the Hag's plans, given their reputation of spite and deception. And then the Professor said nobody really knew the Hag's plans since it was foiled. Vickers still thought putting the Princess in a coma was just stage 1 of the Hag's plans.

He listened to the next question and raised a tentative hand "Leverage Professor?" the Ravenclaw started "Leverage on several fronts-- the Wizard could've been a rival of the Hag... Hag thinks she's outsmarted everybody but here comes the Wizard upending her plans, proving to all that he was better than her. And certainly being the person that saves the King's daughter will sway many things in his favor." And the kiss? Why even bother coating it on his lips? "...And I guess most guys would grab the opportunity to kiss a pretty girl." he mumbled sheepishly in the end. It was true, specially one that without a doubt wont be dodging it.

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi looked up from her cauldron for a moment when Professor Scabior called their attention to him and went into a little more detail about the historical parts of the story. While notions of true love were...nice to think about, and even caused the Gryffindor to flush a bit. Truth was, that sort of thing just...didn't happen, did it? Kurumi raised her hand, surprised that she had rather Slytherin thoughts about the motives for this wizard. "Perhaps he wanted to gain the king's personal favor? Saving the princess, especially in the way he did, would certainly catch the king's attention." And make him set for life.

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Jory raised his hand. "Perhaps he wanted to show he had courage to do something other wizards couldn't do?'' he said.

Originally Posted by SilverTiger

As Professor Scabior had basically given a response to everyone other than herself, only deigning to give her a nod as if to acknowledge he'd heard her but had nothing else to say, Stella's heart had sunk. Maybe she'd been so off that he couldn't even think of a way to insult her answer, because he basically had done that to some of the others. It was discouraging, but at least she could prove herself to Professor Lafay. She hadn't messed up her potion yet, after all, but that became more of a question as she'd heard Professor Scabior say her name after clearing his throat. Looking up from her cauldron, she blinked as he'd continued speaking. Obviously setting up another mini-lecture, but he'd said she'd been right. Not only that, but he'd quoted part of what she'd said while she'd been thinking about how much she disliked what Leticia the Hag had done. He never did that. Usually he insulted people if they'd said something intelligent.

She was definitely paying attention now, in any case, as he'd gone on to discuss the wizard who had saved the princess, and Leticia's mistake. Points taken from the hag, obviously, if she'd honestly thought that nobody else would have known about the Draught of Living Death. It seemed to her like the wizard had himself been hiding, though. It didn't seem like anyone in the castle had thought of potions. Curses and magic, but nobody had thought of the potion, or to brew the antidote. And she found her hand raising almost involuntarily. "Was anyone else actually magical in the situation? Isn't it possible that Leticia had thought she'd be able to get away with her plan because she'd thought that she was the only magical being around? Some muggles believe in magic, but they don't understand that it's real, after all." There wouldn't have been the need for the Statute if they thought it was all real. "The wizard might have been living amongst Muggles, even royalty, thinking that there wasn't anyone else who had the skills he did. he'd pick up on the suspiciousness of the situation because he would have known about the Draught of Living Death. Saving the princess could mean that he wouldn't have to live in hiding anymore. Technically." Even if he had to pass his kiss off as true love conquering all, he still would have the knowledge that his magic had saved the princess. And she could assume the wizard knew enough to work with what he had in front of him, spin his story to his benefit.