This was turning out to be a pretty interesting lesson. Sinead leaned forwards to listen more closely to the professor's words as he responded to everyone's different questions, carefully inking down all the different ideas. It sounded like a pretty inexact art, but any kind of permanent enchantment on an object like that was interesting. She knew it was possible, of course, but she still hadn't learned how to make objects exert a magical influence on something else in any of her lessons, so this was all new to her.
"Professor," she asked now, sticking her hand into the air and waving it slightly from side to side in case she wasn't attracting enough attention as was. "I don't understand why wood should be less good if it's just to do with living things. Because trees are alive as well, right? Unless it's to do with magical connection. And then maybe a wand wood tree would be better? Anyway, shouldn't any material work? If metal does? Because metal's never alive, is it?" Hm. Maybe she hadn't entirely answered the question that had been asked, thinking about it, but she was really just as interested in what she was thinking about. Anyway, everyone else would answer that, so she was just keeping things interesting, really.
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