Lukas smiled. Someone had to study the difficult things in life. When it came to creatures, Newt Scamander happened to be the best. Sorry Hady. His sister was phenomenal with creatures and he had learned LOADS from her but let's face it, she was no Newt.

What was this? A quiz of sorts on some of Newt's life events. The Ravenclaw stared at the board reading over the six events that were given. This was going to be interesting. He knew stuff about the guy and read up on him a couple of times but a lot of his knowledge was creature based.

Pulling a clean sheet of parchment and his quill from his bag, he silently pondered over the list. Well the first one was a no brainer. It made the most sense so that was written down at the top of his parchment followed by what he thought he remembered reading had come next.

Lukas set his quill down looking over his list. It looked... okay? Out of the six events he knew three or four of them for sure. The two he hadn't been to entirely sure about were the werewolf one and banning experimental breeding. In the end he had just guessed. It was okay to get something wrong if you were learning from it.

Of course she was paying attention ...... so uh say what now on this next text?? Ordering a series of events in Newt Scamander's life? Uh, she was only alive sixteen years and she could barely tell you the order things happened in her own life, which was hardly even an inkling of extraordinary in comparison.

Soooo hmmm.... the chronological order of things. Why was he banned from hogwarts? Was it because he was too smart for his own britches in terms of creating some ban? Or did it have absolutely nothing to do with any of the events listed? Wasn't Tina Goldstein an American? Did he meet her as a penpal first and she encouraged him to do something stupid to be expelled so he can run off with her instead of waiting until graduation? Or did he meet Tina Goldstein after graduation? Actually, the penpal thing maybe made sense...

- Met Tina Goldstein [via penpal]
- Created the Werewolf Ledger [which then...]
- Gets him expelled from Hogwarts [so he can run off with Goldstein who then...]
- Commissions Scamander to write Fantastics Beasts and Where to find them
- Gets awarded Order of Merlin, Second Class as a result
- So he then writes and passes the ban on experimental breeding

Yea, this sounded legit. Maybe.

Kale had given this task his guessin' best. And the third year was more than satisfied with that. Cause a guess could never be wrong. Well. Technically it could be wrong. But it couldn't be wrong in spirit.

The pssssssst caught Kale's fleeting attention. The Gryffindor turned to his housemate AND dormmate, and immediately grinned. Yah. Sure. Of course he would share his answers. Sharing was caring, after all. He had learned that from his mother when Mavis was little. It was better to share toys than to hog them. He supposed it was the same for learning, too. Share what you know. That is the only way people grow. Merlin, that was basically what Professors did.

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Did this make him basically a professor?!

He didn't have the mental acuity to deal with that rabbit hole right now. Instead, he shared his answers with his dormmate happily and whispered, "Yah. Here ya go, bro."

Heath positively beamed when Recard called his answer excellent. He was relieved to know it hadn’t been as big a stretch as he initially thought, but there wasn’t much time to dwell on his success. Wow, he knew Newt Scamander had helped out a lot of creatures, but he never realized it was this many! There were some creatures mentioned that he hadn’t even heard of! He listened, jotting down a few notes on his classmates’ answers until they moved on. Looking up from his notes, he refocused his attention on the professor as she explained the activity. Okay, so they were supposed to put the highlights of Newt Scamander’s life in order. Seemed simple enough… maybe even a little tedious, actually, but Heath wasn’t complaining. He’d take a boring, predictable activity over a chaotic one any day of the week!

He stared at the board, trying to mentally place the events listed. Expelled from Hogwarts… that one definitely came first, and it made sense for the Order of Merlin to be last because he knew it took a lot of accomplishment to earn something like that. So he had the first and last events. Now what?

Heath wracked his brains for answers. He knew Newt met Tina sometime in the mid 1920s, and Newt had already written (or was in the process of writing) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at the time. That meant the commission had to come before meeting Tina, but did those things happen before or after the Werewolf Ledger and Ban on Experimental Breeding? Or somewhere in the middle of the two?

Given the fact that Newt didn’t seem to be an old man when he met Tina, Heath was going to guess that that happened before the other two events. Now the question remained, Which came first: the Werewolf Ledger or the Ban on Experimental Breeding? Ugh, he didn’t know, and he was running out of time to get this done! Still unsure, he wrote down his best guess:

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-Expelled from Hogwarts
-Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
-Met Tina Goldstein
-Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
- Created the Werewolf Ledger
-Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

Nina knew for a FACT that Eiji would not appreciate the one upping from Nemesis Upstead. Nor would he likely be appreciative of what he happened to share. Either way, Nina did, briefly, glance over in his direction. She did, however, recognize they were still in class and as such, she would not be getting distracted. And so she continued taking notes and listening very intently.

The activity itself wasn’t anything overly interesting. While Nina didn’t know the exact dates for some of these events, she could put together a relative order. Newt Scamander wasn’t anyone of real interest to her in the grand scheme of things, but as it was covered in their textbooks and would likely be on their end of the year examinations… Nina made sure to read through the chapters ahead of time and commit as much as she could to memory. That’s what you were supposed to do when you wanted to go to a good uni.

Dipping her quill into her pot of ink, she began to write.

1. Expelled from Hogwarts
2. Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
3. Met Tina Goldstein
4. Created the Werewolf Ledger
5. Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
6. Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

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Um. Umm. Ummmmm.

If he didn’t know much of anything about this amphibian guy, how was he going to know when he did WHAT? This class was starting to seem more and more like a failure and he didn’t know what to do or what chapter to start reading and something told him all these events had their own chapter.

He had a headache, officially. He’d never liked history when he was homeschooled and now there was this other kind of history he would need to learn from scratch. Was this was a brain overload felt like? And just think, this was basic introductory stuff. He could only imagine how overwhelmed he would be as exams drew closer.

Guess?

He could guess?

Well then, that made this a little easier.

Kitt leeeeaaannnneed closer to his dormmate—great bloke by the way—they all were in that dorm. Pssssssst, Kale, pssssst. Can I uh...can I see your answers.”

Please?

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Kale had given this task his guessin' best. And the third year was more than satisfied with that. Cause a guess could never be wrong. Well. Technically it could be wrong. But it couldn't be wrong in spirit.

The pssssssst caught Kale's fleeting attention. The Gryffindor turned to his housemate AND dormmate, and immediately grinned. Yah. Sure. Of course he would share his answers. Sharing was caring, after all. He had learned that from his mother when Mavis was little. It was better to share toys than to hog them. He supposed it was the same for learning, too. Share what you know. That is the only way people grow. Merlin, that was basically what Professors did.

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Did this make him basically a professor?!

He didn't have the mental acuity to deal with that rabbit hole right now. Instead, he shared his answers with his dormmate happily and whispered, "Yah. Here ya go, bro."

Gabi had been pacing the room, watching them all work as she kept glancing at the clock, waiting for 10 minutes to go by. So naturally, Kitt's nudging towards his neighbor had not gone unnoticed. She walked by him and tapped his desk with her polished fingernail, smirking at him slightly. "Eyes on your own paper, please, Mister Lazarus," she reminded him gently. And that would be his ONLY reminder before points started getting taken away, in case he wasn't already away.

And as for Kale..."Please don't share answers with your classmates - let them figure it out themselves," she told the Hufflepuff with a small nod, reminding him as well to not encouraging cheating in her classroom. Admirable as his actions were to help his friend, she didn't want this to become a habit so she was squashing it NOW.

She continued to do her laps around the room, glancing at everyone's answers to see what people thought. There were a variety of answers - some right, some wrong, but it seemed evident that everyone was at least putting in effort to put them in the correct order. After what seemed like an eternity (probably since she had been walking around and staring at the clock) 10 minutes had passed, and their time had elapsed. "Alright everyone, that's a wrap," Gabi announced as she headed back to the head of the class. "Here is the correct order!"

She waved her wand and the correct answers displayed themselves on the board.

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-Expelled from Hogwarts (1913)
-Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (1918)
-Met Tina Goldstein (1926)
-Created the Werewolf Ledger (1947)
-Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding (1965)
-Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class) (1979)

"These are just a small snippet of the accomplishments that Newt achieved during his long life," she explained, pausing to give the students a moment to scribble down the correct answer in their notes. "As you can see, the earliest event was his expulsion from Hogwarts. Interestingly, he took the fall for his good friend, Leta Lestrange," she added, giving a bit of background to the story. Quite honestly? It was a dumb decision to do that, in her opinion. At least he had gotten to keep his wand - a luxury that was not awarded to many. "However, his reputation for being skilled when it came to magical creatures, especially after the first World War, as many of you brought up, led him to being approached by a publishing company to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," she continued on.

If only she knew how many of her students were thinking about the fact that he had been successful despite being expelled - she'd be just a LITTLE concerned about putting the wrong ideas in their heads.

"Tina Goldstein was, of course, his future wife, so that was an influential moment in his life when he met her," she paused for a second to give them a second to catch up in note taking once again. "The Werewolf Registry that he helped create was done in an effort to try and keep track of werewolves in Great Britain," she explained, although whether or not it was ACTUALLY beneficial was up for debate. That was a topic for another day, perhaps.

"The next event was the Ban on Experimental Breeding that Newt was instrumental in creating," Gabi stated, continuing her explanation of the topic. "The obvious benefit to society from this is that experimental breeds cannot be made willy nilly. This prevents wizards from possibly upsetting already established ecosystems or releasing potentially dangerous creatures on society," she explained. That was all rather obvious, right? "Finally, for all his contributions to magizoology, as well as his other great achievements in life," which they would all touch on in a minute, "Newt was awarded the Order of Merlin, 2nd class, in the 1970's." she finished.

"This is the perfect time to transition to our next topic of conversation - the impact Newt had on the wizarding world OUTSIDE of his work with creatures. What other events in Wizarding history was Newt Scamander an influential part of?" she asked them.

OOC: Ok everyone, onto the next question! You'll have approximately 22 hours to post in this part of the lesson, maybe a bit more depending on how crazy work gets tomorrow (you never know with my clinic). Let me know if you have any questions!

Chloe had been pretty quiet during the lesson. She found history interesting and got so caught up in her own thoughts she would forget at times to share them with the class and to be honest to listen to the direction the lesson was going. So when they started talking about New Scamander she began thinking about all the creatures in his book and how he got those creatures, then she thought about his case and how cool it would be to have one of those.

The next thing she knew they were doing a sequencing activity so Chloe started to work on that and putting her notes in order. She didn't want to use her book, she wanted to see if she could figure it out on her own. When the professor started talking again and revealed the order she compared it with her own notes, darn two mixed up. Giving herself a thumbs up on getting the rest correct she moved it to listen to the next part.

"He was heavily involved in the Wizarding World where he had to go against Grindelwald."

Claudine’s gaze shifted from the board to her notes checking her answers. It dawned on her with much embarrassment that she only had the first and last events correct. She proceeded to make a note of the correct order. No one needed to know just how off she was. Anyway, what other wizarding events could she think of that Newt being involved with?

Hmmm.

All she could think of was the Wizarding War and no doubt there was going to be many students who said that. Well, this introvert was not going to waste her breath repeating that since she could think of nothing different. Only note taking would happen now.

Isla compared her answers to the professor's. She hadn't gotten them all right, but she hadn't done half bad yet either. She eyed the professor with a 'you don't mean to say' expression when she told them that the expulsion was actually him taking the fall for someone else. Nope. Never. She didn't care how good of a friend someone was. She wasn't getting expelled for them.

She listened to Recard detail everything else, and she tried her hardest to keep mental notes. It was no use, though. Once she'd gotten hung up on the fact he got expelled for someone else, it was hard to think about anything else.

...but yet here was the next question. Isla had actually read about how intelligent Newt was and how he was pretty much super smart in all the subjects offered at Hogwarts. She raised her hand. "He was pretty good at Charms, I hear. Speaking of Grindelwald, Scamander supposedly used a Revelio Charm to get past Grindelwald's Human Transfiguration," she recalled.

Nodding as the correct order came up on the board, Ewan quickly jotted it down again a little neater this time so that it would actually be legible when he looked back to revise for his NEWTs. Sure, it wasn’t likely to come up but you know, just in case.

Ewan did find it interesting that Newt had been expelled though. After all, he’d done well with himself despite not having completed his studies. Or was it simply luck? He had a feeling that it was a mixture of both luck and finding something you were good at and enjoyed, something that he really wanted to do, yet something that eluded him.

Ewan continued to add all of this extra information to his notes, his quill scratching across his parchment in at a rapid speed as he did so, determined to get it all down, only pausing to listen to the Professors answer. He’d read a little about the whole wizarding war against Grindelwald but well, he’d grown up as a muggle and it wasn’t exactly an everyday point of conversation with his muggle father. Nope. He just continued to listen intently to the answers of others, only answering when he actually had something to offer.

”He helped capture him in New York didn’t he?”

WELL. So sometimes logical guesses got a girl to the right answers. Phoebe preened in her seat as she drew big stars next to each of her answers. Right and right and right and riiiiiight. Perfect score.

But why were they talking about the non-creaturey stuff? The creaturey stuff was interesting! If they got off that, they'd end up talking about some boring government bills he wrote or something. Oh! Speaking of things he wrote... "He wrote other books! Other than Fantastic Beasts. My daddy used to read to us from the Anthology of Monsters." Rawr.

Bummer! Blake had gotten a few of them out of order, but he corrected his notes quickly so he had it all right for whenever the exam came.

"Didn't he partner with Dumbledore with the downfall of Grindewald?" Okay so he had kind of asked a question within his own answer, but he had at least given it a chance.

Valencia's and immediately shot up. "He was a spy." she said excitedly. "Before the start of the Wizarding War. But he was told to keep it secret." Obviously. That's how being a spy worked.

Well, 4 out of 6 wasn't too bad, considering that Avalon had only heard some stories about Newt from her grandfather and done some light reading. At least she had gotten most of them right, and thankfully, the activity wasn't graded. The Ravenclaw listened to the Professor Recard's explanations intently, jotting down some notes as she went along. She truly couldn't believe that he got expelled for someone else! What a stupid thing to do. She didn't think she could ever do something like that, no matter how heroic it might seem. Hogwarts was jut too important to her.

Her classmates had covered Newt's involvement with the Wizarding War and Grindelwald, so Avalon decided to contribute a different fact about his life that she remembered reading in a history book. "Newt was successful at containing an obscurus, even after its host died." She had never heard of any other wizards accomplishing that before. "He was able to encase it in some sort of bubble and keep it in his magical suitcase." And from what she had heard, Newt's suitcase was amazing. It could apparently adapt to whatever creature was inside it. If only she could come up with something as neat as that!

When Rasting eventually turned to look, Nem merely smiled at him some more. Happy to be here, happy to learn, et cetera, et cetera. Clearly not an antagonistic bone in this little angel's body. Mental notes were, however, being made. Nem had endless hours of ennui ahead that they would have to suffer through; maybe Rasting could provide some entertainment here or there.

Things moved on eventually, and Nem sat back in their chair, spinning the ring on their thumb. The only thing written on their parchment so far was those six life events of Newt Scamander, in entirely the wrong order. Even as Recard prattled on and on, taking obvious pauses for note-taking, Nem just sat by and listened, even as tempting as it was to instead think about more interesting things.

When there finally came a question, their hand rose almost at once.

"It's not really an event, I suppose, but the rise of Horklump prejudice!" Nem put in earnestly, once they were called on. "He wrote himself that he used to dismember them when he was a kid, and then in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, he mentioned they have no discernible use, even though a lot of other creatures weren't exactly mentioned in terms of usefulness, at least not in so many words. A bit cold and heartless, professor, when you really think about it." Not that Nem would know anything about that kind of thing, of course. "But anyway, when you've got the guy everyone considers the main authority on creatures saying stuff like that, people are gonna latch onto it and absorb those ideas too, obviously. So now we have more Horklump prejudice than we might have had otherwise."

Was there such a thing as Horklump prejudice? Maybe. Did Nem actually care so much about the topic? What do you think.

Islay let out a squeal of excitement when she saw that her list and the list on the board there EXACTLY the same – okay, so maybe she was a little over excited about it. When the werewolf registry was brought up she did furrow her brows a little and raise her hand in question “Professor Recard, couldn’t the werewolf registry be used as a way to discriminate those afflicted? Even those who simply were attacked and were not born as werewolves themselves?” she asked out of concern for well, anyone that happened to be among them.

Her mind immediately going to the uncle she had just heard of over the summer and his affliction. When her next question was brought up Islay listened and looked around before raising her hand once more, “Mr. Scamander was an instrumental part of the capture of Gellart Grindlewald during the first part of the first wizarding war – before his later escape” they had learned a lot about this in Beauxbaton because of how close the fighting had come to the school.

Noah glanced at his notebook and began checking his answers against what the Professor had explained. Welp. He had gotten the order of 'Writing and Passing the Ban on Experimental Breeding" messed up with "Created the Werewolf Ledger". Oh well he was pretty close.

He listened to the Professor speak, noting that she had called out Kitt and Kale for trying to look off each other's notebooks or something like that. Oof- fellow Lions... Luckily she hadn't taken any points away from them. That was nice...

Now to the question that had been asked of the class. What other events had Newt been involved in? Well Wizarding War, events in America. "Didn't Scamander work closely with the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau?"

.... Were those boys CHEATING? And the Headmaster's son, no less. Nina Castillo was not at all impressed. She had heaps of respect for Headmaster Trent though, and had no doubt that the man did not stand for his son cheating like that. While Nina wasn't outright staring, she did lean back to listen in when Professor Recard walked their way.

And.... She was far too nice. No surprise there. How were they to learn that cheating was wrong if she just brushed it off so easily like that? Whatever. Nina didn't actually care.

What she did care about, however, was getting the answers right. And it was no surprise that she did, though she still smiled to herself. There was nothing wrong in taking pride in one's accomplishments. As for the next question, she again chose to stay quiet. Eyeing Nemesis Upstead for their answer, but otherwise listening and jotting down her own thoughts in her notebook.

Kitt grinned wide at his dormmate, a big ol' appreciative sort of grin that was basically synonymous with a thanks for saving his life. "Thanks, mate!" He began scribbling down the answers but stopped short at the perfectly manicured hand now on his desk.

Kitt felt the blood drain from his face at the sight of the professor, thinking he was really in for it and poor Kale too for only trying to help.

Imagine his RELIEF when he got off with a warning. Kitt nodded obediently, somewhat embarrassed to have been caught. When she walked off, he mouthed a "sorry" to Kale. Truly, he was.

Aaaaand then they were back to history talk and Newt and accomplishments. While the Professor spoke, Kitt took the time to scribble down the answers to the earlier activity. Might as well now that it was over. Was this going to reflect poorly on his grades? It hadn't been a TEST, yeah? Because then that would make him a really bad cheater.

Kitt flopped his head down onto his desk, forehead smacking against the wooden structure while all this information poured in. This was insane. Everyone was saying a ton of things he had no idea about and he wasn't sure if he should give an answer. Last time he tried while knowing nothing about the topic, Professor Williamson said it was harmful to younger kids.

He didn't wanna be HURTING people.

But man, all this info hurt for sure.

SPOILER!!: Catch up mini activity

Cole was taking diligent notes as Professor Recard lectured. Newt Scamander could come up on the end of the year exam, plus he was a very interesting fellow. He was more than just an author of their CoMC textbook. He had led a life that had been very eventful. To list events in order was difficult, but Cole gave it a shot on his parchment.

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1. Met Tina Goldstein
2. Expelled from Hogwarts
3. Wrote and passed the ban on experimental breeding
4. Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them
5. Created the werewolf ledger
6. Got Awarded the Order of Merlin

Cole read and read his order of Newt's life events. The award he got should be at the end and Tina should be at the top. He was satisfied with the list. If it was correct was another story.

When the right list of events was revealed by Professor Recard Cole prided himself with having at least a few right answers. Scamander was a famous guy but he hadn't followed him that closely. One thing he had read this summer though came of use now when they we're asked what else Scamander was known for. Raising his hand Cole said confidently "Scamander worked for the ministry during the first World War where he took part in a programme to wrangle ironbelly dragons. The programme wasn't very successful though because apparently the dragons just tried to eat everyone that wasn't Newt and had his hand with them."

Turning his parchment over to continue his notes on the backside, the seventh year nearly found himself yawning as class continued. Despite his poor penmanship, his answered had been in the correct order but he hardly felt a sense of accomplishment on the matter. Nah, he was still thinking over the previous round of question and answer and absolutely NOTHING to do with that younger Slytherin. NOTHING.

Okay? Nothing.

Only his irritation absolutely made him pay attention ever single word that she was saying and he hated that he actually snorted in amusement with her whole spiel on Horklumps. Because it WAS hilarious.

So naturally, his hand went up because he now had something to say about it.

"Suppose there is a lesson to be learned from the fact that not even the great Newt Scamander seemed privy to the Horklump's vital role in the creation of such potions as the Wiggenweld Potion and the Herbicide Potion thanks to their juice. Instrumental in the field of healing potions as well as rather useful with some alchemy transmutations. Pure contradiction to the line in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them my classmate spoke of. So suppose a lesson we can learn is that no matter what Order of Merlin class you receive and how much a professional you are perceived of in your field that no one is exempt from ignorance and infallibility, wouldn't you agree professor?"

Oh look at that, he had spoken twice in class now. A record for him, truly. And he had done so without casting even the tiniest of glances towards the little snakette. See? He was building off her answer. Such a kind classmate he was.

Also, that Gryffindor Cole needed to pay attention. This point had already been raised and the Slytherin couldn't help but roll his eyes a bit.

Wait... what? Flynn had a face journey when the professor said his name because it didn't sound like she had actually heard what he had said. He was teeeechnically calling into question the validity of Scamander's approach, right? Like, just watching knarls wasn't that much in the way of methodology, was it? MAYBE he should have transfigured himself and LIVED as a knarl instead? And, actually maybe the dude didn't HAVE a thought process, maybe he just projected on the knarls. Also the professor didn't mind the use of the word jerks, he supposed, so that was good to know. But ummmmm he would.... take the random 'excellent', he supposed, even if the rest of it felt bafflingly out of context to anything he'd actually said.

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Truthfully, Gabi could do an entire months worth of lessons on the impact Newt had on the study of magical creatures. That was better left to Williamson, however, and Newt wasn't ONLY known for his creatures work. "Excellent everyone! As most of you knew before you even walked in the door, Newt studied and wrote about nearly every magical creature in existence. However, his impact on the wizarding world extended far beyond his book on magical creatures," she added. That was also something she was sure they were aware of - but did they really realize just how much he accomplished in his life?

"For our mini activity today, we're going to focus on some of the highlights of Newt's life. Here are six events in Newt's life - your job, without knowing WHEN they occurred, is to put them in chronological order from earliest accomplishment to latest," she explained.

"If you're not sure, simply make your best guess," Gabi added. If they could figure out one or two of the events, it would likely be easier for them to put the rest of them in some sort of order that made sense. "Alright everyone, you'll have ten minutes, have at it!" she clapped her hands, signaling that it was time to get started.

Flynn was still in baffled mode so he spent the majority of the time they were supposed to order events around figuratively scratching his head. And then when he actually started on that, best guesses and all, he was still a bit head scratchy because his big problem was, if he put it in an order, he'd have the order he put it as the order that went in his head, and not necessarily the actual order. That wouldn't be any good for exams! It was better then to just wait for the answers, he decided, that way he'd remember the right order (even if he didn't get why it was something worth knowing- History of Magic was SO weird like that) stuck in his mind.


Wait a minute, how was expulsion an accomplishment? How was meeting someone an accomplishment? The others were, Flynn could see that well enough but those two? He was REALLY trying not to go glassy-eyed over here, but ended up gaping in consternation at the next question. What events? Like..... like the events that.... were.... in this timeline maybe? Like those events? That they'd.... literally just.... discussed?

Yup, sorry professor, you've lost him. MAYBE if she'd stuck to the creature bits.... Flynn let his mind, and his gaze, wander. Prefect-watching was a way better use of his time.

Well.......Naya totally got the Scamander timeline wrong. First event and last event was all she seemed to get right. She wrote down the right answers in her notes and then tuned in to the next question. Naya tried to think back, going through her knowledge on the subject. Given her performance on the previous task, it was apparently limited. The first answer that came to her mind had already been given. Naya thought of something else, but she was pretty sure that was not what the professor was after. She decided to keep quiet for now. Maybe something good would pop into her head. Maybe. Hopefully. Soon. In the meantime, she would keep taking notes. Taking notes and sucking up knowledge.

After reading through the list of events, she got to work silently, scribbling away on her parchment. She was certain about the order of most of them, through her prior knowledge of Scamander and by deductive reasoning, but was confused about which came first, the Ban on Experimental Breeding or the Werewolf Ledger.

Turns out that she did get the two events in the wrong order. She corrected her error and added in the years when each event occurred. She listened as the professor spoke about each event in more detail - it was always so interesting to hear about the lives of great witches and wizards. Of course, the version that they were given was very brief, only consisting of the highlights. Jina took notes on the things that she did not previously know and which may appear on the exam. The next question got her thinking more seriously, since Scamander was quite obviously very well known for his contribution in the wizarding war. She wanted to say something more specific than that though. She raised her hand and said, "He was involved in the Battle in the Lestrange Family Mausoleum. His friend Leta Lestrange died, and that's when he really decided to join the fight against Grindelwald."

Jina smiled at the Horklump answers given by the two Slytherins, though she knew that they were not trying to be funny. While listening to the other students, he sketched a few Horklumps on her parchment, with speech bubbles saying "prejudice?" "ignorance & infallibility?".

Oopps, some of her answers were waaaaay off but that's okay because she copied the correct list that Professor Recard wrote on her notes. Most of Newt Scamander's adventures involved creatures in it, so the second question was quite hard. She had the same answer like the others- he was involved in the war against Grindelwald and saying it again just makes it repetitive. No need for that. Jillian did thought long and hard just in case she left out something but so far that's the only thing she could remember.