What was WRONG with this girl? She was stealing chicolate frogs amd she made a generally optimistic second year start to cry! Who did that? And the retaliation. Did people start drinking their potions from class early? And did this Gryffindor girl have like ten of them? The was a box being thrown and someone had a spell going that missed and .... Merlin! There was a full out war starting and it was hard to imagine this stopping without a prefects help. Then again, even teachers had trouble controlling her this year. So that was going to be tough going. Sigh. So much was going on tonight and it was making her slightly dizzy. Should she stand up and say something? Her mother taught her to stand up for others, but this girl was a seventh year probably and Ophelia was a five foot two first year. So that was going to be interesting.

Just before class started, the blonde turned towards Kyroh and offered him a small smile of consolation. Awful consolation prize, but the chocolate frog was HERS and that wasn't negotiable. Sorry, she wasn't THAT nice. Maybe give him a bit.... Wait, that would involve something like ripping it in half... and that was't happening. Sounded too gross. And possibly messy. What was the anatomy of these chocolate frogs? How did this thing work? Uggh, no time to figure it out. Sighing, she held out her chocolate frog to him, nodding. Whatever. she'd be nice to him. Ophelia had sandwich baggies full of melted together candy in her suitcase, she'd take from that later. This kid needed the frog more.

Sorry professor, it was hard to focus while things were happening in the background. Like a billion things. All at once. But chocolate frog cards, yes. That was the lesson and this was the part where she thought it through and answered. Okay, what was the use? Well, they were a familiar item in her household, as her brothers and sisters collected and traded them like they were going out of style. Which meant that Maleficient over there was wrong in a way. Oh yeah. There was no way to hide the smug expression as she raised her hand.

"The cards are used to teach people, like someone else said. See the person, read the facts and then learn something new. " And here came the part she was afraid of. Should she stand up for this? Run out of the room? She already made someone cry. What could that woman do next? But it was important, because the cards DID have meaning.

"And they're used for trading, like between my brothers and sisters. They trade them like they're going out of style, sometimes even in exchange of a favor, like doing chores or eating someone else's vegetables." Hence how she lost all of her cards, and why her mom put a temporary ban on Ophelia having cards in the first place. Anyway, that brought her to the peak of her answer.

" So, no disrespect, but doesn't that make them currency, like bartering" yes, that was sort of geared towards a special someone, but it still tied in with the lesson. Ooh, it might be a good time to look who was on her card. Rowena Ravenclaw. Ooh cool.