SPOILER!!: professor
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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!
West sort of listened with a squint-y concentrate-y face, one that this professor wouldn't be familiar with since he'd never actually been to her lessons before, but NOW he was a third year and could do elective classses.... so he was trying this one out.
He was about to answer when Sierra said something that interested him.
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Originally Posted by Anna Banana
Memorable elections... Sierra raised her hand. "Well, a few Ministers before my father, there was a woman named Reagan Taylor. She won the election against the previous Minister, Mr..." Uhh, what was that man's name? "...Cooper?" She said that last part like it was a question. "Anyway, it's memorable to me, because it's the first election I really remember, and because my dad took over afterwards."
"Brennan Cooper." Paaaause. Oh yeah, hand up. He did that.
"He's my second cousin even though he's real old and all." Sixty three, West was pretty sure,
"That's Mo's uncle."
But that wasn't what West's answer actually was gonna be, he was just interested from hearing Sierra, that was all.
And actually, he wondered if this professor would actually know if he made something up or said something real. He did know some stuff that was obscure enough that probably she wouldn't have heard of it anyway and could THINK it was made up. He decided NOT to make something up. Yeah. But first...
"Professor, its sort of hard to talk about memorable elections without talking about the parties involved and stuff isn't it? Because its what people represent and stand for and everything what actually makes people care enough to think any election is memorable anyways, right?" So he started with a question? Anyways. In saying that, he thought hard to give an answer and kept his hand up.
"The English General Election of 1689 was the last election where Wizardkind officially had a vote in any of the United Kingdom Elections, because that same year King William III & II and Queen Mary II began their reign and they turned down a delegation of Wizards who were asking to be protected under Muggle law, since their Bill of Rights, even if it was good for lots of things, didn't protect Magical folk. So after that we went into hiding, and we stopped legally being able to vote in their elections too." So that was kind of important right? Ever since then, in the United Kingdom at least, Wizarding Politics had become more important, even life and death in a lot of ways.