Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Alex raised her hand because she had a good answer to share. She said, "Professor there was a memorable election in the United States in 1948. Thomas Dewey ran for President against Harry S. Truman. Everyone believed Dewey would win the election, even the newspapers printed that he had won. It turned out that Truman actually won the election. It was a huge upset." Alex loved that story because the underdog came out on top.

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Ohh, elections. This made Sierra think about her father. He'd been elected to the position of Minister of Magic, although it'd been more of a 'people's choice' thing rather than a voting thing. Although, she guessed those two things were one and the same.

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."

Originally Posted by DecemberMoon

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Sky thought over that question while taking a bite of her (delicious) jello. Most of her classmates had already named the ones that had come to mind, while a couple of others had clearly not been listening to the professor. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes as a student came in late, immensely glad that said person had not been a Slytherin. Finally she had it and raised her hand while swallowing a second bite of jello. "There's the election of U.S. president Kennedy, or JFK, who was the first ever Catholic president. In fact, he was so important, they named one of the country's busiest airports after him!" Yep, right in her own hometown, too.

So far, Roxanne was impressed with the class. And the children's answers (except the one's that had decided to be lazy and repeat the professor's example, of course). Though, her brow did raise when a young Hufflepuff just decided to blow, late, into the classroom like there was a tornado after her. Really? Didn't the child have an alarm clock? Hopefully the professor would punish her for disrupting class like that....

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva smiled as class began. She was excited to learn more about the elections and the voting. Since doing her internship over the summer she was very interested in the board and how they became members. Plus, learning more could help her on the committee that was lead by the professor.

As she asked the first question Minerva put up her hand, "Professor, there was Abraham Lincoln's second election. It was right in the middle of the civil war and they were afraid that he would not get elected because of the state of the war and if he did get elected again that any chance of reconciliation with the south. No country had ever held elections during a military emergency, but Lincoln said you could not have a free government without elections."

Putting her hand down she sat listening to other answers. She knew more muggle because she grew up muggle, but she was interested in learning more of the wizard elections as well.

Originally Posted by Bumblebee

Seth nodded at Peyton's gesture. Of course she could eat the jello sitting in front of him! He didn't like eating sweets, didn't sit well with him. He gets extremely hyperactive, quite quickly.

Anyways focusing his attention back at the Professor he politely raised his hand. Before he didn't know much about muggle politics, but just to indulge the purpose of this lesson he had read several books about muggle American Presidents.

"The one I know about, through reading several books about. Is about the tall, honorable man, President Abraham Lincoln back in 1864. He won by a landslide against his opponent from the South, George B. McClellan." Seth replied, as yes he had brought that book with him. It was safe inside his backpack, along with many other books.

Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

Originally Posted by fish_kid

Finally a class Ofim could answer questions in. Not only was he muggle born, he LOVED history.. and this kinda tied into that, right?

"Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the ONLY President of the United States to serve FOUR consecutive terms." he answered the Professor with a smile

Originally Posted by Harry174

Laura looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "Well the United Kingdom General Election of 2010 was very confusing as it resulted in a Hung Parliament and it took nearly a week for two parties to come to terms on an agreement so they could have a Government." Laura had heard about that and thought it had been funny.

Originally Posted by sarahlooo

Originally Posted by Emzily

Elections? How boring! Theodore was disappointed, since all of the lessons last term had been super AWESOME with all the superheroes and stuff. He'd even brought his cape in his bag JUST in case more of the awesome would commence.

OH well.

But he'd learnt the basics of elections from his muggle schools, so he raised his hand lazily, "Winston Churchill..." He said, thinking about his facts carefully, "... was elected as prime minster of the United Kingdom during the.... second world war." Yes, he'd learnt all about him in History classes. Not that he could recall any particular facts ABOUT the guy and his leadership.

He was actually surprised that no one else had mentioned him yet.

Or maybe he'd gotten the question wrong. Ehhhhh, not too bothered either way really. The third year's eyes drooped a little but he remained awake like a boss.

Originally Posted by Saz Hale

Christmas thought about the question and raised her hand and said "Well the election i remember is when Nicolas Sarkozy beat Jacques Chiraq to become prime minister of France and then he lost his position in 2012 when the opposition beat him"

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa thought of numerous muggle government elections she had heard of. But she remembered on that would always remain in her memory.

She raised her hand when no one else offered an answer and said. "The elections I remember is the US Presodential elections where a Senator from the State of Illinois, Barack Obama, became the first African American to be the President of the United States of American."

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella sat quietly, writing down notes and doodling on her parchment. The blonde didn't know too much about elections but she did think the whole idea of voting was pretty neat. They should have a great ice cream election here at Hogwarts and decide on a school flavor. Yeah, she'd totally vote for Oreo if that ever happened. Just saying.

As far as an election she could name from history, there was one she recalled hearing about. Raising her hand, the fifteen year old sat quietly until she was called on. "Professor, Artemisia Lufkin was the first witch to be elected Minister of Magic. She's got her own chocolate frog card and everything." So yeah, she was pretty important as far as Ells was concerned. You go, girl.

Originally Posted by Poolicious

Messer turned his attention to Professor Cerulean when she started the lesson. They're talking about elections? He didn't really know much about Muggle Politics or just Politics in general. But he did remember about a muggle election when he still lived in Denmark.

The fourth year raised his hand up in the air. "When I still lived in Denmark, there's parliamentary election." He didn't know whether its a big news in other countries or not but its certainly a very big event for Danish people because he remembered his grandfather always talked about it over and over during that election time. "They hold the election was in order to elect the 179 members of the Danish parliament" he said. "And if I'm not mistaken only citizens on the national register are eligible to vote in this election." he quickly added.

Originally Posted by Bubbles

Her hair was being ruffled. Peyton's first reaction was to elbow the person doing that, but she heard Richard's voice and of course, the princess part. She glanced up at him, a big smile on her face. "Hi, Richard," she said with a mixture of a giggle. Hehe.

Oh? He was fixing her hair? Howcuuuuute! *___*

She let him do whatever it was to her hair, she knew he wouldn't make her look like a clown. He was nice. Yep. He was. Before he walked off, Peyton waved at him. Richardjustdidherhair!

She was quickly distracted when Seth blocked her view from Richard. "Hey..." He was in a good mood. Whyyy? Was he up to something? And he didn't tease her. Seth Aguirre was definitely up to something.

Interesting class? Peyton glanced around and shrugged. Maybe. She wasn't into politics unless people were voting for her to be ruler of the world.

Peyton was about to ask why he was in a good mood and WHAT had gotten him in a good mood and if he was going to eat his jello. It was yummy. And if he didn't want his then she would. But, Professor Cerulean began the lesson. Instead, Peyton gestured his jello with her green-gray eyes.

You gonna eat that?



Peyton turned her attention to the front of the classroom. She liked this professor so far. She called Peyton by her first name and didn't make her feel so old. Peyton took out her notepad and pretty new quill her dad had send her. It had her initials on it. Woot! Woot!

The snake stared, scribbled, and staaaared. She didn't know nothing about muggle politics. Okay, maybe not ANYTHING because her brother's family was involved in it...or something like that.

OH!

She may not get the entire gist of politics, but she had a story to share! Peyton raised her hand. "There was this voting election for Mayor some years ago in Massachusetts - I lived there some time - and my family helped with promoting and stuff." So she wasn't the best at politic-story-telling, but she was going with it. "Our party won." Of course they did! Johnathan's father was like, the best mayor ever!

It still amused her that wizards helped in muggle politics. Not that they used magic to help out. Her father was against cheating, unfortunately, and he wanted to do it the "muggle way". That, and it was his best friend, Mr. Walker, who was running for mayor, so her dad definitely didn't want to get him in trouble.

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict

Muggle Studies always gave Selina a really full stomach. This class was the most delicous class that she had in her class load. It was sort of a party every time that she had this class, which meant that she never bothered eating before she came. There was never any doubt that she wouldn't be eating. Food!

As she nommed on the food, the class started and Selina perked up almost automatically. She had to at least attempt to leave something about muggle culture. She had limited knowledge on the subject because, well, she grew up in the wizarding world. But what she found odd was that the first question addressed wizarding world voting as well. Um, okay? The seventh year could do that.

She rose her hand and answered cautiously, unsure as to why they were taking wizarding policy, "One election, professor, that is sort of famous is the election of Kingsley Shacklebolt to minister of magic. He was the head of reform after the Great War." He was sort of very important.

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Jory tried to think of an election most people would be familiar with. But he didn't really know about any except one he read about that had taken place in the United States. He raised his hand.

"The Presidential Election in the US in the year 1960,'' the Puffer began. "It was one that was famous because all fifty of the country took part for the first time. The results came were close with John F Kennedy getting 49.7 percent of the votes and Richard Nixon 49.6 percent.''

Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa

Now this seems like a very interesting question to start a muggle studies lesson. I am sure I am gonna like this class. Now for the question, I know....
Oichi raised her hand and responded, "I have cousin who lives in the US. She told me about their 2000 election in Florida that caused a stand still in the presidential election that lasted a week. It was crazy!", Oichi responded excitedly.

Originally Posted by Jessiqua

Zhenya gave a small shrug to Professor Cerulean and said "It was good, thanks."



Elections? Zhenya hardly knew what the word politics was. She didn't recall ever really learning anything about any elections. The only thing she knew about was once in Russia when the President was overtaken. She didn't even know much about it, just that it was so silly. She raised her hand and said "Professor, well, I know in Russia a long time ago there was a President and I think he kept doing things that the people didn't really like, so the Vice President stepped up and knocked this guy off the lead. But all I really remember learning was that the Vice President thought that the Public had had enough with the President, so the next day there was a vote of the Politic people and they decided to vote the Vice President into the head role, and people weren't happy!" She remembered one night listening to her grandparents complaining about it... STILL! So, it must have been within the last 10 years, she thought.