Still feeling pleased that the professor had liked her answer, Eliza listened to the others giving examples with a small smile on her face. She felt like there had been a lot of good answers given, and thought the points Mr. Vinteren had made were good ones to keep in mind.
She had liked the hands on things they'd done in the past with History of Magic, like the walled up rooms with the riddles. That had been neat. Other than that, she learned most of what she knew by reading it or by hearing it passed down through word of mouth.
She shrunk in her seat a bit at the mention of so much death at Hogwarts. She was saddened of course that two of her professors had passed away within the castle, but at the same time, she still hadn't known any of the very personally. She couldn't think of a name and location of a death someone hadn't already offered up, except for the jobberknolls from last year, but she wasn't sure if he was including animals or not. Though she thought they should be recognized too. She kept quiet, feeling that she didn't have much of a right to speak of the dead as if she had known anything about them. She more liked to give them respect by not throwing emotionless facts about them... Then again, she knew the only way to know it happened was to acknowledge it.
This next part she felt better about answering though, so she raised her hand. "Professor," even though he'd told them the title wasn't necessary, "We usually know about things because our elders or other people we know relay the information to us. Sometimes it's done by story or song, or sometimes just in a conversation. Information can get misinterpreted and skewed though, so it's best to always take what you hear with a grain of salt. Even text books aren't completely accurate, because it's so hard to stay neutral when reporting on this you haven't witnessed first hand. Even then it would be hard." She paused for a breath and added. "I like West's idea of using the pensieve more often. Then books could be transcribed from all sides of every story, to be thorough and unbiased." She would normally still be a bit down about all of the death talk, but for whatever reason, she seemed to be keeping her head above it today.
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