What? He had actually gotten something correct?

Simon smiled shyly as the Professor turned to the whole class and became very enthusiastic again. She was asking them to delve further into the historical situation that he had brought up. Set the scene. Cast characters. Merlin. It sounded as if they were trying to recreate the scene for a major motion film for a second. Nevertheless, Simon liked how she had phrased it. It made the event seem all the more interesting. Besides, he already found the event really interesting because he was intrigued by dragons.

The whole Ifracombe incident had always stumbled Simon since he had heard of it. Why would a common green welsh dragon? A relatively quiet, harmless dragon attack a group of people? He could've sworn that he read somewhere that the green welsh dragon would've avoided contact with human beings. Had the dragon been provoked by hunters? He then thought about his classmates answers'. Was the dragon nuts? Had the dragon been hurt? Was it a publicity stunt? Was it right for the Toke family to have intervened? He supposed so, but performing memory charms on a large mass of people was described as being very difficult. The text had also said something about some dodgy guy- Dodgy Dirk that had remembered the incident and went on to inform other muggles about it. So other muggles must've known too... And besides didn't the Ministry monitor dragon populations? Migrations and whatnot? The whole incident was baffling.

Simon became distracted by this thought and tried his best to refocus and listen to the answers that his classmates were suggesting. However, focusing back on the discussion proved to be a harder task. But, what happened to the dragon? Who knew? He remained silent and listened to his classmates.