Professor Stewart had written her answer and loads of others on the board. Emmeline wondered if maybe they should be writing these down, but in the end, she decided that it was too much work. Besides, a lot of stuff about smoke could be figured out anyway, maybe.

The silver dagger sheath, and then the revealed blade, caught the first year's attention. It looked really pretty from here! The professor's questions were sort of weird, though. There weren't that many uses for daggers, were there? She thought that her classmates had covered the topic pretty much completely by the time she was ready to answer. Stabbing, cutting, fighting and defense, what else were daggers used for?
The second question also seemed kind of obvious to Emmeline, but only because they were in Transfiguration class. Obviously they were going to transfigure something and the professor's question made Emmeline feel sure that it would be related to the dagger somehow. That could be pretty cool!

She took the dagger when Jessa passed it over, not really paying attention to people's answers anymore. They all ended up on the board anyway, and she had a slightly short attention span, if people hadn't noticed yet. She liked how detailed and nice this dagger was; it was even prettier in person, and it really looked just like a mini-sword. Emmeline twirled it around in her hand with its sheath on to look at the pretty object from all angles before passing it to either Derf or Stasya. They could both reach it from how she was holding it out to them, after all.

Now, how to answer the professor's questions? She knew her answers wouldn't be very good, because lots of good answers were already taken, but she thought maybe she could be specific and get away with having similar opinions. Raising her hand, she answered: "I think daggers can be used in Defense Against the Dark Arts. Maybe against evil vampires as a last resort or something. And, there's a cool charm Professor Marchand knows that lets him summon things from other places, so we could use that to get a dagger!" True enough, though she was still super sure that the professor wanted a Transfiguration-type answer. But at least she'd tried, right?