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Stasya had made a good point; fire and ice were opposites and would totally explain why Professor Hirsch had both out here. She was about to tell her friend that she liked that idea when Miss Olivia P. arrived. Emmeline gave the older lioness a smile and a wave, and then gave Derf the same when he came over, but before she could say anything else about the ice or anything, the lesson had started.
At first, Emmeline was content to listen to her classmates' answers as she thought the problem over. Most of them thought that any of the creatures could be defeated with fire, and Emmeline thought that was probably true -- but then why the ice? Stasya had asked a good question, too; flying away or over the Dark creatures sounded like one of the best strategies to her. Some of her classmates' answers were kind of disturbing, though. Emmeline stared at Miss Olivia H.; battling all three creatures was super brave and all, but unless they were going around hurting people, what was the point in that? Maybe Miss Olivia H. was super good at DADA or a future Auror like Miss Noelle or something. The older Gryffindor's answer went out the window in terms of daring or weird answers, though, when Jessa said hers! Jessa wanted to study them?! WHAT?! Emmeline glanced at Derf and Stasya to gauge their reactions, 'cause she felt like someone should tell Jessa that that was NOT a good idea -- for LOADS of reasons -- but she wasn't sure how to go about telling the Ravenclaw that herself. She knew that Jessa liked experimenting, but experimenting on ANY creature was disturbing, and on Dark ones it was even worse of an idea in the first year's opinion.
So which Dark creature would Emmeline pick? She felt like she didn't know enough about any of them to make a smart choice, to be perfectly honest. She knew what all of the creatures were, of course, but she didn't know speeds or fighting abilities or weaknesses (other than fire) of any of them, really. Someone had said earlier that facing an Inferi would mean facing the Dark wizard who had conjured it, and Emmeline had to agree that that would be much worse than facing only one Dark being. Raising her hand, she said tentatively: "I think I'd take the mummy, Professor. Because you could use loads of different spells to get away from it, maybe, plus fire. The Inferi would mean fighting TWO battles to get past it, and zombies are super dangerous if they bite you, right?" She wasn't sure about that, but she thought maybe zombies spread their zombie-ism through bites, sort of like werewolves did. Mummies seemed like not as much of a threat as the other two options, but maybe she just didn't know enough about any of them. Emmeline flushed with embarrassment and slumped a little on her place on the log; maybe she shouldn't have answered this one.
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