Zhenya was minding her own business, not listening to what conversations were going on around her, when she heard a shout. And... it was her name. It made her jump, wondering who had said that? She looked up and saw Ira. She gave a friendly smile and waved, "Hey Ira." Ah, and the question of her whereabouts. She lightly bit her lip and said "I uh... was in Russia," and shrugged a little. Without going into the very lengthy back story of everything, it was difficult to explain why. "I had some family problems." That was essentially why she had left.

Originally Posted by Lezleighd

Professor Cerulean looked up from her magazine with a smile, “Hello Zhenya! I did...thanks for asking...and yourself?”

Originally Posted by Lezleighd

The professor stood up once it seemed the seats were all filled and walked towards the dry erase board at the front of the class. She smiled at the students and felt the usual butterflies in her stomach. After so many years of teaching, she still got them on the first lesson of the term.

“Welcome everyone to our first Muggle Studies class of the term. I want to remind you that this is a Muggle Studies classroom so please refrain from using magic in the classroom unless I specifically ask you to. I will use a few tricks along the way,” she said motioning up to the flags waving in the magic wind and then with a snap the music stopped in the background, ”to set the tone and decorations of the class, but overall we’ll try to stay away from magic in here on a regular basis.”

She turned towards the board and wrote out the word ‘VOTE’ in all capital letters and then turned back to the students, “As many of you have noticed and heard, we are having an important Hogwarts Board of Governors election this term. It is an exciting opportunity for us to vote for those individuals that will best represent us and make decisions for our school’s success and future,” she paused and let that sit in.

“Voters choose their leaders and in doing so give authority and legitimacy to government. The rights of citizens to vote and participate in periodic, democratic elections are internationally recognized human rights. They are also essential to a country’s peace and stability.
Achieving fair and free elections around the world has become a matter of concern for international organizations that promote peace and human rights.” she continued as she started pacing the stage a little bit.

She stopped in the middle of the stage and looked over the students knowing that some of them were probably already getting to tune her out, “There have been some pretty amazing elections over the years in both the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds. For instance, in 2000, the Muggle world had an election that rocked the world in the United States. It was full of controversy surrounding who had actually won the Presidential election and the country actually had to wait a few weeks before they even knew who the official President was...and this was all over what they called a hanging chad...so pretty much a piece of paper that was stuck to some ballots that were cast. Many times these elections are ridiculous no matter what Political Party you are in.” she paused again and walked towards the board and picked up her marker.

“But enough about that, can anyone share some examples of memorable elections from either the Muggle or Wizarding world that you can remember or have heard about? Remember we are be biased in this lesson so don’t be mean about other Political Parties. We are just talking about the Election and Voting process and not so much the different parties involved.” she said asking the students their first question...she held the marker ready to make notes on the board.


OOC: Class has officially started so all conversations should be over...remember not to rp your charrie coming in late or Professor Cerulean will take off points.

Please have fun with your answers....they can be real or made up....doesn’t matter! Remember the professor is always watching!