Aha! So she was right! It was Alexander Graham Bell. The only reason Natalia remembered the face was because... well, he kinda looked like a nice teddy old-man.

Natalia continued to take in around sixty-percent of the information the professor was throwing out at the class. A couple of times, Natalia had to ponder 'really?' before absorbing in the new facts. She did not know ANY of the information on Bell's personal life, yet they were quite interesting and somehow relevant to the inspiration his innovation. Of course, all of this would have been quite interesting to Natalia if she wasn't so exhausted. The fourth year remembered to make certain mental notes to each of the information she received: Thomas Watson? Ew, what a common name; Elisha Gray? Never heard of that name, but what a shame that she couldn't receive the patent.

How society was changed by the telephone?

The muggle world was of course, deeply affected by the new way of communicating. To more, um, traiditonal wizarding family, it barely made a ripple in the pond. But she had to say, magical or not, a world without the telephone was a world without... LIGHT.

Okay, maybe not to that extent, but telephones were pretty significant. Besides all the points her classmates had mentioned, Natalia was not impressed by any of them. Grinning slightly, the Lioness believed she had thought the most ingenious point of all. Perhaps she should raise her hand and contribute to the class discussion this time. Yes, she couldn't contain her ingenious idea all to herself.

"No telephone, no telephone booth." Grinning wider, the fourth year felt her weariness diminishing slowly as she spoke aloud in class. "No telephone booth, one less convenient way of entering the Ministry of Magic." INGENIOUS, wasn't it? Come on, who would want to get in the Ministry by using the public toilets? DISGUSTING.