 be curious, not judgmental
Sophie was taking meticulous notes, even though none of the concepts mentioned so far were particularly hard to grasp. Technology... the study of building or creating something. Simple, buuuut if she didn't write it down, she'd forget later. She added the areas of medicine, informational technology, and construction under the definition as some sort of examples, but she wasn't entirely processing what Hadley was saying. Some stuff about some muggle stuff. Or something.
Coming up with some practical ideas and uses... she could probably do that. She thought about Tobes and all the visits to his house and neighborhood, considering the different simplistic, muggle-like things he had available to him. After the first minute passed, she still was brainstorming, so to make up for lost time, she jotted down the professor's own example, then spent the rest of the five minutes adding a few more.
She made lots of faces while she scribbled answers down, occasionally stopping mid-word to try something different. She had a feeling most of hers wouldn't count, but it felt better to write something that didn't make sense than to write nothing at all. Probably.
Muggles were weird.
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