The notes on the board were welcome, even though Sinead had already copied down most of her classmates' answers- she scanned over them as Hirsch recapped the topic, checking that she'd got all of the information down correctly. The Bavarian Erklings sounded pretty horrible, and kind of stupid too; surely if they just sat around eating children in the open, it wouldn't take long for the parents of those children to find them and, presumably, take care of them? Which brought her right onto her answer to Hirsch's next question, something which was so obvious to her she couldn't believe nobody else was saying it...

"Children are much easier to attack than adults, especially when they're witches or wizards," she pointed out, eyebrows lifting intently. "They'll probably be easier to lure away because they're less suspicious- but mostly they're less likely to hurt the Erkling than a fully trained adult witch or wizard. It's like we don't eat wolves or bears, we eat sheep and cows, because they're not going to attack us. That would mean they should probably hunt Muggles, too, because they're even less likely to hurt the Erkling, but maybe there's something different about magical people which means Erkling only want to eat them?" It was easy to be matter of fact about this kind of thing in a nice safe classroom- thinking about the issue objectively like that, Sinead really forgot she was talking about children being eaten by monsters. She was sure no competent witch would let that happen, anyway.