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It was an absolutely lovely September morning - so lovely in fact that Gabi had opened the windows, which she didn't generally do. She had sensitive eyes and the sunlight bothered her baby blues, you know? But today was an exception. It was just far too pleasant outside to ignore it. Plus, the sun was still shining on the other side of the classroom, so there was the PERFECT amount of light shining in. It was truly magnificent. Sad to think in just a month or two they'd all be shivering in the cold, probably wet from a never ending rainstorm.
The classroom was decorated plainly today. No trinkets or lesson props to be found. Just Gabriela, sitting on her desk in the front, legs dangling over the side as she waited for the children to enter and take their seats. "Come on in and take a seat! I hope you all had a good summer," she greeted them all warmly as the first students began to trickle in.
Well, that wasn't ENTIRELY true. There WAS something unusual about the classroom - most students just wouldn't see it until they took their seats. The creature that was currently scurrying around the floor was an enchanted toy, so no need to panic if fluffy critters aren't your thing. You MIGHT panic just a bit though, if you were wearing something particularly dazzling, like earrings, a bracelet, or shiny buckles on your shoes. In which case you might find something crawling up your leg, trying to snatch it and quench it's thirst for all things shiny and sparkly...
OOC: Hello hello hello! Welcome to our first History of Magic lesson for the term! This lesson takes place the second week of school so you've had at least one HoM class prior to this, so please RP your characters appropriately.
As you can see, Gabi isn't alone in the classroom today! I feel it's fairly obvious which creature Gabi has enchanted a toy of to run around and cause some mayhem, so feel free to have your characters glance something running around out of the corner of their eye. Please do NOT RP for it however - I'll be taking care of that
Class will commence in roughly 24 hours CLASS HAS NOW STARTED!. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the HoM Classroom Rules before posting! Thank you!
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As Professor Recard went of the correct in order in which the events had occurred, Lukas couldn't help but smile. He was sure he had mixed up at least two of the event but it appeared that he hadn't. Sometimes guessing wasn't a bad thing. Which was the case right now but they weren't being graded on it so it wasn't like it really really mattered?
The lesson was moving on and a lot of talking was happening. More events and names and dates. There was always so much to learn and even more to remember. Rather than raise his hand and end up repeating something that had already been said, he choose to keep silent. Not wanting it to appear like he wasn't paying attention or anything though, the first year picked up his quill once more and began taking notes. At least he was doing something productive other than just sitting there.
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Aww, man! Bernie had ALMOST gotten all of the events in Newt's life right, with only the last two wrong. Well anyway. She now had to guess what in the heck Newt had done that DIDN'T have to do with creatures, or werewolf ledgers, or bans on breeding....?
She sighed but popped her hand in the air ANYWAY. Because she DID agree with Blake.
"I bet Newt was REAL GOOD friends with Dumbledore." This, she had learned, was a solid guess for any important wizard from the 20th century. It had worked with Nicholas Flamel last year! OH OH! Speaking of Flamel! "I bet Newt KNEW Nicholas Flamel, too. I bet the three of them were the very best friends that anyone could have." As for, uh, what that had to do with wizarding events?
She shrugged. "What the others said. He definitely, probably, aided Dumbledore in some way, against Grindelwald, andddddddd, I dunno, maybe his creatures helped him?" JUST GUESSING, it wasn't illegal to GUESS here.
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Her answer being wrong didn’t surprise her much either. She needed to do better.
Sighing, she scribbled down bits and pieces of information the professor was sharing. She really didn’t have to listen, right? She could just read ... all about this in a book. This was probably a very wrong approach but Missa had given up on History of Magic a long time ago.
Anyway....
The next question didn’t stir her brain either - what did though was Eiji’s avid response. He was just very active in this class, wasn’t he?
Oh, wait. Was he showing off? Was there some other agenda to this?
Okay, she needed to stop overthinking this. Maybe today he had just forgotten his unhelpful emoness back in the slytherin dorm.
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Heath finished writing just as the professor moved on. He looked up at the correct answers on the board, cross-referencing his own list. Oh, looks like he’d reversed the Werewolf Ledger and the Ban on Experimental Breeding. That was slightly disappointing, but he hadn’t done as poorly as he thought he would. At least he had the other four events in the correct order! So was he supposed to add the dates these things happened to the same parchment he used for the mini activity or…? He decided to write them on the one that contained the rest of his notes instead; that way he could put them in the right order.
He kept taking careful notes, only looking up as Professor Recard asked another question. Other wizarding world events that Newt Scamander was part of… Heath’s mind immediately went to Newt Scamander’s role in the defeat of Grindelwald, but evidently so did everybody else’s. Having nothing new to add about that, he frantically wracked his brains for something else to say until something one of his housemates (Avalon) said jogged his memory. If he recalled correctly, that wasn’t the only obscurus… obscurial, whatever the term was, that Newt Scamander encountered. He remembered hearing about another one that had survived to adulthood. What was that guy's name? It was something with a C, and it sounded like the name of the foster home his favorite wrock band supported. Crandall? Creighton? No, Credence! That was it!
Heath raised his hand and said, "Newt met another obscurial named Credence during his visit to New York. He tried to help him… and I think that was part of the reason Dumbledore sent Newt to Paris. They were trying to find him before Grindelwald did…" Or something along those lines. His memory was fuzzy on some of the details. So, yeah, he was just gonna…. stop talking now before he made a huge fool of himself.
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Aboli shook her head out of it! SNAP. Had she VISIBLY zoned out?! Glazed over eyes? MERLIN. She hoped not - her hand got to scribbling down EVERYTHING Professor Recard was saying. Did she know any of this? Nope. Was she interested? Nope. But she respected Professor Recard ssooooOOoooo there was no choice but to comply and be respectful.
As long as she didn't fall asleep first. .____.
But her hand was cramping, and that was a great sign right? Apparently Scamander had helped with the take down of Grindelwald, as far as Aboli could gather from her classmates. And that bloke, Eiji....wow. He was smart. Aboli tried to keep up with this words as best she could. Was that younger kid who had MISLED HER in Creatures last week in here? Because she would NOT be listening to any of his comments anymore. MORON.
HMPH.
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Heeeey, she'd actually done pretty well with that list of hers, huh? Cecelia smiled to herself, switching event number three and four so that they were in the correct order. She added the dates too on account of she was trying hard at this studenting thing today. Then she drew a smiley face at the top of her parchment because that's how she felt. Smiley.
But um...uhhh...what if she didn't know much about what Newt did outside of his creature endeavors? Because she didn't, not really. So instead of adding anything, she just jotted down a couple of the more interesting facts her classmates shared and drew herself a little bowtruckle to accompany her notes.
Kale felt his face turn a violent, tomato red at the suggestion that he was doing something wrong in helping his friend. Cheating. She was suggesting he was cheating. And he so totally wasn't. He was helpin' his buddy by showing him his answers.
Kitt was new to the whole wizard stuff.
Being kind was not a crime.
And that was on periodt.
But still, in the spirit of respecting authority, the Gryffindor said, "Sorry, Professor."
Once she clicked away, he mouthed back to Kitt, "I'll help you after class." In case he was still confused.
When she moved onto the next question the third year kept trying to raise his hand, offering an answer, but his peers beat him to the chase with each bullet he knew. Eventually, the Gryffindor ran out of knowledge and had to sit there in sadness.
Tom raised his hand, seriously a lot of things were already said and he'd got the order wrong, it would have been epic to have been awarded the order of merit but being expelled from Hogwarts for something would have made for a great story.
"He was friends with Dumbledore and did a few things together." Tom had no idea what they did together but he was sure that they had done a few things that had gotten them both into trouble.
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Okay so her order of events was WAY off, but at least it was a good exercise. Also interesting to note was that Tina Goldstein was his future wife whom he didn't meet until after Hogwart. So all you kids who think you're gonna meet the love of your life at only fifteen, get real! This was why Carsyn was all about the casual relationships right now, cause why be serious at this age? Honestly, ridiculous. There would be time for that in the future, she was sure.
But moving on though, after jotting down the correct order of events along with brief notes that Professor Recard stated, Carsyn considered the next question... It was plural, so what else was Newt influential in during Wizarding History? Grindewald and Dumbledore were mentioned. As well as the first wizarding war and other than that, Carsyn really didn't know much else besides the obvious creatures involvement and contributions ...
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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."
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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.
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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?”
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Heath finished writing just as the professor moved on. He looked up at the correct answers on the board, cross-referencing his own list. Oh, looks like he’d reversed the Werewolf Ledger and the Ban on Experimental Breeding. That was slightly disappointing, but he hadn’t done as poorly as he thought he would. At least he had the other four events in the correct order! So was he supposed to add the dates these things happened to the same parchment he used for the mini activity or…? He decided to write them on the one that contained the rest of his notes instead; that way he could put them in the right order.
He kept taking careful notes, only looking up as Professor Recard asked another question. Other wizarding world events that Newt Scamander was part of… Heath’s mind immediately went to Newt Scamander’s role in the defeat of Grindelwald, but evidently so did everybody else’s. Having nothing new to add about that, he frantically wracked his brains for something else to say until something one of his housemates (Avalon) said jogged his memory. If he recalled correctly, that wasn’t the only obscurus… obscurial, whatever the term was, that Newt Scamander encountered. He remembered hearing about another one that had survived to adulthood. What was that guy's name? It was something with a C, and it sounded like the name of the foster home his favorite wrock band supported. Crandall? Creighton? No, Credence! That was it!
Heath raised his hand and said, "Newt met another obscurial named Credence during his visit to New York. He tried to help him… and I think that was part of the reason Dumbledore sent Newt to Paris. They were trying to find him before Grindelwald did…" Or something along those lines. His memory was fuzzy on some of the details. So, yeah, he was just gonna…. stop talking now before he made a huge fool of himself.
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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.
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Aww, man! Bernie had ALMOST gotten all of the events in Newt's life right, with only the last two wrong. Well anyway. She now had to guess what in the heck Newt had done that DIDN'T have to do with creatures, or werewolf ledgers, or bans on breeding....?
She sighed but popped her hand in the air ANYWAY. Because she DID agree with Blake.
"I bet Newt was REAL GOOD friends with Dumbledore." This, she had learned, was a solid guess for any important wizard from the 20th century. It had worked with Nicholas Flamel last year! OH OH! Speaking of Flamel! "I bet Newt KNEW Nicholas Flamel, too. I bet the three of them were the very best friends that anyone could have." As for, uh, what that had to do with wizarding events?
She shrugged. "What the others said. He definitely, probably, aided Dumbledore in some way, against Grindelwald, andddddddd, I dunno, maybe his creatures helped him?" JUST GUESSING, it wasn't illegal to GUESS here.
As she had predicted, many of the students brought up the wizarding war and his fight with Grindelwald. Gabi smiled and nodded at each of them in turn. "Very good. Newt was definitely instrumental in the downfall of Grindelwald in the first Wizarding War. It showcased just how skilled he was in all aspects of magic - and showed he wasn't just focused on creatures, and was an all around brilliant wizard," she summed up. Once again, she found herself thinking that she could easily do a whole series of seminars on him! Although she was probably the only one who would find that interesting because she didn't know that Derfael Ashbury-Hawthrone existed.
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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.
Gabi doubled back to Islay's answer, as she had brought up something interesting that Gabi had been hoping someone would have touched on. "There is certainly the argument for that, Miss Moreau," she nodded at her with a smile of approval for her answer. "The werewolf registry is a bit of a...complex issue, both in terms of how useful it is and how well regulated it is. A fascinating subject if you ask me - however we do need to stay focused on Newt," she added with a small chuckle. Perhaps she'd be interested in reading the thesis she had in one of her books on the subject? Probably not, because she was a teenage girl. But it was there if she wanted it!
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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.
Ooh, an interesting fact for Phoebe to bring up! Gabi had been certain most of them would have taken the Grindelwald route. "Good point Miss James! One of his lesser known novels, for sure," she added with a nod of approval.
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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.
Gabi chuckled a bit. "Yes, that is pretty important when you're working undercover," she said. Although she wouldn't exactly call him a SPY. More like...a covert operator. Newt didn't strike her as one to be sneaky enough to be a TRUE spy.
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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!
"Fascinating things, Obscurials," Gabi gave a small nod of approval at the Ravenclaw at her answer. "It was his work with obscurials that accidentally led him to stumble into his fight against Grindelwald, in a way," she added. That and some runaway creatures, of course.
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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.
That was...um. Ok. Gabi blinked for a moment at the Slytherin, unsure at first how to respond to their answer. "That's an interesting take," she noted, giving Nem a slow nod. "I'm not entirely sure that was Newt's intention. Remember that this book was written as a guide for wizards and witches who were NOT familiar with creatures and looking for practical information on them. Was it not possible that maybe he was trying to dissuade people from hunting them by stating they weren't 'useful'?" she asked them with a raised eyebrow. Snaps them for coming up with an out of the box answer, though.
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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?"
"He did," Gabi smiled and nodded in response. "This way he was able to get more up to date information on dragons for newer editions of his book!"
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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.
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."
Gabi nodded at Cole with a soft smile. "Yes, he did work with dragons during the first World War, it was what helped him build a bit of notoriety as being skilled with creatures, and helped earn him a book deal later in life," she added.
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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.
Eiji was feeling particularly chatty today, wasn't he? Gabriela was a bit thrown for a loop, as she was used to him just moping around quietly - which was fine by her. Still, he earned another small smile in his direction. "It is quite possible that, at the time Newt wrote the book, he was unaware of just how useful they would be in potions," she responded. That was why he was constantly releasing new editions with new information, after all. "We all should be seeking to better understand things that we are ignorant about, as you said, no matter how successful we are in any given topic," she added as an afterthought. Believe it or not, Gabi knew that firsthand.
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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.
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.
If Gabi knew what was going on in the poor Hufflepuff's brain, she would have definitely felt like she was on a looping roller coaster. She had, of course, interpreted his answer a completely different way - thinking that he was admiring how he had studied knarls in the past. What had been deep thought about the validity of his methods, she had taken for the ramblings of a young third year boy as he basically thought out loud about how Newt had accomplished it. The jerks bit was sort of endearing, to be honest - she liked when students presented their uncensored versions of themselves! So in summary - they were on totally different wavelengths. Whoops. Hopefully he wasn't going to be gazing off in to space too much or he'd miss her explanation of the main activity they were about to do...
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Originally Posted by Sunflower
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?".
Interesting answer from the Ravenclaw. Gabi didn't really view that as a major battle of the war, but it was important to Newt nonetheless. "Very good, and Leta was his old childhood friend that he actually took the fall for when he got expelled," she added as a fun fact. Did she mention that she didn't agree with that decision at all? Because she definitely didn't. So no getting ideas, anyone!
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As Professor Recard went of the correct in order in which the events had occurred, Lukas couldn't help but smile. He was sure he had mixed up at least two of the event but it appeared that he hadn't. Sometimes guessing wasn't a bad thing. Which was the case right now but they weren't being graded on it so it wasn't like it really really mattered?
The lesson was moving on and a lot of talking was happening. More events and names and dates. There was always so much to learn and even more to remember. Rather than raise his hand and end up repeating something that had already been said, he choose to keep silent. Not wanting it to appear like he wasn't paying attention or anything though, the first year picked up his quill once more and began taking notes. At least he was doing something productive other than just sitting there.
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Missa was ... zoning out again.
Her answer being wrong didn’t surprise her much either. She needed to do better.
Sighing, she scribbled down bits and pieces of information the professor was sharing. She really didn’t have to listen, right? She could just read ... all about this in a book. This was probably a very wrong approach but Missa had given up on History of Magic a long time ago.
Anyway....
The next question didn’t stir her brain either - what did though was Eiji’s avid response. He was just very active in this class, wasn’t he?
Oh, wait. Was he showing off? Was there some other agenda to this?
Okay, she needed to stop overthinking this. Maybe today he had just forgotten his unhelpful emoness back in the slytherin dorm.
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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.
Aboli shook her head out of it! SNAP. Had she VISIBLY zoned out?! Glazed over eyes? MERLIN. She hoped not - her hand got to scribbling down EVERYTHING Professor Recard was saying. Did she know any of this? Nope. Was she interested? Nope. But she respected Professor Recard ssooooOOoooo there was no choice but to comply and be respectful.
As long as she didn't fall asleep first. .____.
But her hand was cramping, and that was a great sign right? Apparently Scamander had helped with the take down of Grindelwald, as far as Aboli could gather from her classmates. And that bloke, Eiji....wow. He was smart. Aboli tried to keep up with this words as best she could. Was that younger kid who had MISLED HER in Creatures last week in here? Because she would NOT be listening to any of his comments anymore. MORON.
HMPH.
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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.
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Heeeey, she'd actually done pretty well with that list of hers, huh? Cecelia smiled to herself, switching event number three and four so that they were in the correct order. She added the dates too on account of she was trying hard at this studenting thing today. Then she drew a smiley face at the top of her parchment because that's how she felt. Smiley.
But um...uhhh...what if she didn't know much about what Newt did outside of his creature endeavors? Because she didn't, not really. So instead of adding anything, she just jotted down a couple of the more interesting facts her classmates shared and drew herself a little bowtruckle to accompany her notes.
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Kale felt his face turn a violent, tomato red at the suggestion that he was doing something wrong in helping his friend. Cheating. She was suggesting he was cheating. And he so totally wasn't. He was helpin' his buddy by showing him his answers.
Kitt was new to the whole wizard stuff.
Being kind was not a crime.
And that was on periodt.
But still, in the spirit of respecting authority, the Gryffindor said, "Sorry, Professor."
Once she clicked away, he mouthed back to Kitt, "I'll help you after class." In case he was still confused.
When she moved onto the next question the third year kept trying to raise his hand, offering an answer, but his peers beat him to the chase with each bullet he knew. Eventually, the Gryffindor ran out of knowledge and had to sit there in sadness.
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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.
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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.
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.... 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.
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Okay so her order of events was WAY off, but at least it was a good exercise. Also interesting to note was that Tina Goldstein was his future wife whom he didn't meet until after Hogwart. So all you kids who think you're gonna meet the love of your life at only fifteen, get real! This was why Carsyn was all about the casual relationships right now, cause why be serious at this age? Honestly, ridiculous. There would be time for that in the future, she was sure.
But moving on though, after jotting down the correct order of events along with brief notes that Professor Recard stated, Carsyn considered the next question... It was plural, so what else was Newt influential in during Wizarding History? Grindewald and Dumbledore were mentioned. As well as the first wizarding war and other than that, Carsyn really didn't know much else besides the obvious creatures involvement and contributions ...
To be quite honest, Gabriela wasn't surprised that many people had stayed silent. The big thing that most people knew about Newt (outside of creatures) was his fight against Grindelwald. So when the same answer kept getting repeated, it was only natural a few students would just opt to remain quiet rather than keep repeating things. It made sense. Although Kale did get a small nod from her with a smile at his apology for copying notes. She always appreciated when students owned up to their mistakes and didn't make excuses.
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Tom raised his hand, seriously a lot of things were already said and he'd got the order wrong, it would have been epic to have been awarded the order of merit but being expelled from Hogwarts for something would have made for a great story.
"He was friends with Dumbledore and did a few things together." Tom had no idea what they did together but he was sure that they had done a few things that had gotten them both into trouble.
Gabi smiled at Tom and nodded. "Yes, and interestingly, Dumbledore was one of the few people who believed Newt was innocent when she got expelled," she elaborated as a fun little fact for them.
"As you have all shown, Newt Scamander is arguably one of the most influential wizards in our history," Gabi began to summarize up the lesson, which would in turn lead them towards their main activity. "Even though his main focus was creatures, he also found himself - most likely unwittingly - mixed up in the first Wizarding War with Grindelwald. Without Newt's help, it's hard to say what the outcome of the conflict may have been," she explained. That was the beauty of history, honestly - you never knew what MIGHT have happened and could only brainstorm about it!
"For our main activity, we'll be focusing back on his role with magical creatures," she explained. This lesson was meant to be a broad overview of Newt as a wizard, but there was no arguing that his primary achievements had been with magizoology. "Many magical zoos have popped up around the world, dedicated to the conservation of magical creatures, and today we'll be doing the same, in a way," she grinned. "You'll make up your own zoo honoring Newt Scamander and all the ways he has helped magical creatures throughout the years!"
She waved her wand so that the instructions appeared on the board behind her.
"I'm not asking for you to come up with a complete layout and construction plan, of course," she joked with a small smirk. "I just want you to brainstorm out some ideas. For the assignment, pick three creatures to display in your zoo. You could do more, of course, but the minimum is three," and she was sure they would find that to be more than enough. "Because zoos are important to the conservation of muggle animals as well, you can have a mixture of both magical and mundane creatures in your zoo, as long as ONE is magical," she told them. Magical creatures was kind of the main point, but she knew some people preferred a good old fashioned lion, tiger, or bear over fancy unicorns or dragons.
"I have a number of magical nature magazines - and some muggle ones - that you can use to cut out pictures of your animals and paste them to your parchment. Name each animal in your exhibit, and come up with a name for your zoo," she explained. The more creative the names, the better! "Finally, I want you to answer the question - how does your zoo honor New Scamander and all he did for the wizarding world? Think of it as a mission statement of sorts! And most importantly - don't take this TOO seriously, ok?" she asked with a small smirk. Gabi asking them to NOT take something super seriously? Call the presses.
"The main goal here is to be creative and have fun, and think about all the work Newt has done for animals - even the imaginary ones in your zoo. You'll have the rest of the time to finish up, and be sure to ask me if you have any questions!" she added before spreading out the magazines on her desk for them to use and taking a seat, signaling that it was time for them to begin! As she sat down, she took out her wand and tapped the niffler toy again on his head, which caused the tiny creature to reanimate once again. "Jacob will be running around to give you some inspiration," she added with a grin. She knew some people would be pleased with that - and others, not so much. Oh well. She was in too good a mood to care today!
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-Select 3 animals to display in your zoo. They can be magical or non-magical, as long as at least ONE is a magical creature of some sort.
-Use the magazines provided to cut out pictures of these animals and post them on to your collage
-Name each animal and your zoo as a whole
-Answer the following question - how does your zoo honor Newt Scamander and all he did for the wizarding world?
OOC: Hey everyone! Thanks for hanging in there - I took a bit longer than anticipated to move on because work kicked my butt yesterday. The last part of the lesson is to make your own zoo! To receive full points, RP your character planning out their zoo and make sure you address the four main points Gabi posted on the board. If you want to get creative you can save actual images to your image hosting site of choice and include them in your post, but a simple explanation of the pictures will also be accepted! One post is all that is required but if you want to do it over the course of a few posts, that is totally fine.
You'll have the next 48 hours to get your projects done. Let me know if you have questions!
And yes, Jacob will be around causing havoc. Sorry in advance.
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Truly, Islay likely would have been interested in reading the thesis…what, she liked reading in general? The brunette just smiled up at Professor Recard as if accepting that yes it was complicated, but it was more because she knew not to really get the class on a tangent…”thank you either way,” she smiled softly and tapped her pen against her hand almost nervously.
Soooo they were making zoos?...or was it more like historical eco-parks? Using magazines…huh, Islay questioned for a second if she use them but then decided against it as she stood walked to where the magazines were and grabbed a couple. Obviously she was going to share with those near her – she wasn’t about to hog a pile of magazines like some…tyrant.
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OOoOOooooh designing a zooooooo. Aboli was already scribbling ideas before Recard had even finished explaining. She was DEFINITELY taking the two mundane-one magical route. She just had to figure out the layout and the reasons for why each creature appeared.
Hmm.
Number 1...his early life. He was expelled, then he...what had he done next - she glanced back up at her notes. Then, he was commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts. What's an animal that could represent that part of his life? What's an animal that seemed to be an outcast, but was really quite sweet, perhaps misunderstood? And THEN, Aboli had it. She wrote the FIRST animal her zoo would entertain - sharks. To represent what society might have seen him as - dangerous, outcast, in the deep end - but really, he was smart and just trying to do his best! It was SIMPLY PERFECT. Also, who didn't love visiting sharks? Aboli thought they were cool.
Animal #2. Aboli tapped her quill end against her cheek as she thought. The next part of his life. The COOL part. He met the love of his life AND did the thing for werewolves...what if I did wolves. A pack of 'em! Wolves are really lovey dovey to each other and stick together. It could represent THAT part of his life. And so, she jotted down WHITE WOLVES as the second animal. She figured people would enjoy the regalia of white wolves.
Last animal, and it has to be magical. It should encompass his accomplishments as a WHOLE and everything he did not just for wizards, but for humanity. He banned experimental breeding... Honestly, Aboli just kept thinking about Thunderbirds. So, she added a Thunderbird to her zoo. "A poor zoo with only three animals..." she muttered to herself, but for the sake of the assignment, she was done deciding which creatures she'd include. Sharks. Wolves. Thunderbird. She even had different KINDS of animals - fish, bird, mammal. That was cool, too. She was missing a reptile, her favorite, but eh. She would live!
Now, to cut out pictures of them! She went to go peruse the magazines Recard had told them about.
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Plan and design their own zoo. Man a huge chunk of their classes thus far had to do with creatures. Maybe it was a theme of the school year this year??? Maybe there was going to be some kind of petting zoo or other wise brought to Hogwarts this year!!! Blake was speculating that was for sure, but it was fun to come up with conspiracy theories ever now and then ... but moving on ...
What animals did he want at his zoo. Unicorns for sure, that was on of the most magestic creatures to ever exist. And then ...... what else ... Maybe bowtruckles .. the weren't huge, but watching them as an entire society was fun, and then probably just tigers because those were cool no matter if you were a muggle or a wizard.
So to recap:
1. Unicorn
2. Bowtruckle
3. Tigers
Blake had taken some scissors out and had begun to cut out pictures collecting all of them in a pile while he began to think of names to give them.
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Up until this point, Morgan had been pretty zoned out. There really was A LOT of talking going on and he really didn't know too much about Newt Salamander in the first place. And that much note taking (or the prospect of it, because in reality he wasn't taking that many notes), caused him to shut down a little.
He also hadn't done well in the guessing game of his timeline order. But Morgan did find it kind of interesting that one, he'd gotten kicked out of Hogwarts but didn't end up a total loser and two, he did some sort of werewolf thing. Inspired, he started doodling werewolves in the margins of his "notes" during the discussion, unable to feel like he could constructively add anything as again, he didn't know much about Newt Salamander, only looking up when his dormmates got called out for cheating. Oh snap.
But luckily they didn't even get into trouble and Morgan gave them an encouraging smile as they both looked somewhat abashed. There were obviously perks to being the headmaster's son and he was pleased that they didn't even lose points or get detention or anything else bad.
And THANKFULLY they were done taking notes now. Morgan didn't quite follow ALL the instructions, but the gist of it was there (and thankfully they were on the board for reference). Make your own zoo! The Gryffindor hopped up from his seat and grabbed two magazines to bring back to his desk. What kind of cool animals should he include??
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Hmmmhmhmm. Bernie got busy finding the magazine pictures she wanted and all the animals she also wanted in her zoo. How to choose JUST three though? What could she pick that would honor Newt Scamander? Besides something obvious, like a newt or a salamander??
Bernie tapped her chin as she thought. She still didn't know that much about Newt from her classmates' answers, except that it sounded like he'd studied every animal under the sun and then some. Maybe a........ niffler? She beamed at the little one running around. OH, and a bowtruckle, had to have that, and then maybe a......... werewolf? Did they have any pictures of these magical creatures here in these magazines? She shuffled a bunch of clippings around in her hurry to find the right one, carelessly shoving several to the floor.
Also, did werewolves belong in zoos? Er, what had de Nostredame called them in her first year? Something something...shapeshifters....they were technically people, NOT animals, right??? er...
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Cecelia would MUCH rather be thinking up her very own zoo than coming up with facts to share, so she was SO on board for this activity even if she DID believe creatures should be in their natural habitats and NOT kept in a zoo.
The blonde wasted no time claiming a magazine for herself and she flipped through it cheerfully, wondering what creatures she'd want to feature. The problem was narrowing it down. There were simply TOO many to choose from and so she just decided to start a list and THEN go from there.
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-Occamy (cool)
-Mooncalf (cute)
-Unicorn (awww)
-Erumpment (wow factor)
-Elephant for mum
-Golden Snidget for dad
-Grindylow (scare factor)
Cecelia looked at the list she had so far and propped her chin on her hand, sighing. Maybe she'd just cut out all the options and put them face down and then pick three at random? Hey, yeah! That way it wasn't really HER picking one over another. No picking favorites here!
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Isla had to agree. Scamander had done so much more than she thought he had, and she was still amazed that he had done it all after getting expelled from magical school. Not that she planned on getting expelled, but it had just changed her perspective on a few things.
She raised her eyebrows and kind of leaned back in thought as she heard what their big assignment would be. That actually sounded fun and easy, much different from how some of the other lessons had turned out for her pointing fingers at YOU, Trent and WWW. She listened to the rest of the instructions, but at the same time, she was getting out parchment, a color-changing quill, and some ink. She was also tucking her feet back under her bottom, because unlike other, she was unamused by Jacob.
Oh, wait. She needed some magazines first, right? She collected a few pretty interesting ones then got herself situated again. She spread the materials out in front of her and got to work tapping her quill against her desktop while she waited for the ideas to roll in.
It kind of amused him at how unwittingly Newt really did seem, almost like some of the creatures that he looked after. He somehow managed to practically sleep walk into the grasp of Grindelwald and thwart him so many times it was almost comical. Still, the fact whether he meant to or not didn’t diminish his achievements. He was a hero, not only to creatures but to wizards too just like the professor had said. In short, he was somewhat of a new hero for the Ravenclaw prefect. As someone who recently decided to go into that field, Newt was obviously one of the stand out role-models (which made it even more amusing that he was expelled).
With this in mind, the prefect had decided to put a little thought into how he’d be honouring Newt with his own zoo. He didn’t want to pick random creatures but then again, the zoo was supposed to be about the creatures wasn’t it? He wanted balance.
Picking his quill up again, he began to jot down the creatures that he wanted as well as some possible zoo ideas too although he had to admit, being creative wasn’t exactly his forte.
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Diricawl
Golden Snidget
Nundu
How does your zoo honour Newt Scamander and all he did for the wizarding world? I’ve chosen all magical creatures, choosing creatures for a variety of reasons. The Diricawl because it can be difficult to keep these creatures without muggles finding them because they believe they’re extinct.
The Golden Snidget, mainly because this creature was almost extinct because of wizards and the creation of quidditch. Wizards have a responsibility to look after the bird due to their lack of care throughout history.
As for the Nundu, Newt actually had one in its care and it didn’t actually kill him. Rumour has it that it would take over 100 wizards to contain a Nundu so if a zoo could get one from birth and study it in a safe environment, maybe it could help us understand it.
Newt wanted to care for the creatures above all else as well as for wizards to gain a better understanding of them. I think that my zoo epitomises that
Finally settling on his three and the reasons why he chose them, he began to skim through the magazines supplied and create a collage of sorts to represent his zoo. First, the picture of the Nundu, then the Diricawl and finally the Golden Snidget. Underneath, he wrote the name of his zoo in bubble writing just because he wanted to.
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Claudine had been right when she deduced that many would raise points about Newt’s role in the war and was pleased she had not bothered repeating anything. Instead, she had focused on making her notes. The lesson took an even more interesting turn when she learnt that they would be focusing on the role with magical creatures. After all, creatures were her favourite thing ever to learn about. As for creating her own zoo… Claudine was delighted. Hadn’t the topic of possibly having her own sanctuary in the future come up in her career discussion with Fuller-Thompson? Anyway, what was even better was the fact that they also got to add mundane creatures into the mix and this was sort of an art project because… collage. Thank you, Professor Recard.
Claudine already had some animals in her head that she might use but she carefully flicked through the magazines (while keeping an open mind) looking for animals that spoke to her. In no time she was able to locate three: two mundane, one magical. The pictures were cut into neat squares. When it came to art, it all needed to be as perfect as possible.
The Snakette, now back at her desk, seized a fresh piece of parchment from among her stationery and got to work. It was carefully labelled with her basic information, the name of her zoo (after much thought) and then, the three imaged were glued:
Now for the fun part: the collage. Aboli had a small stack of magazines that as she found things from, she cut her pieces and placed them back in the pile that others could grab from. She only cut one like...a few extra pieces to add on. She also grabbed her colored pencils to help out her ~aestetic. Cut cut. Glue glue.
SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE.
Aboli finished her collage and thought it looked pretty good for her having not been prepared to do one today AND done in about ten minutes. Cool. She added her name and her year to the back as well as her house. Hehehehe. She glanced around to see if anyone else had finished theirs...she was sooooo nosy to see other people's STYLES when making something creative. She saw a younger snake's [Claudine] and gave her a thumbs up. "I like yours," she said softly.
SEE? SHE WAS MAKING FRIENDS.
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K had spaced momentarily after the second question was posed, primarily because she didn't really know anything about Newt Scamander other than a couple of the creatures he had studied. So when Professor Recard what else he had down for the community? Well, K was at a loss. She was surprised she did as well as she had on the activity by only messing up on 2 placements for the order of events of Scamander's life.
Bringing herself to attention though, she tried to catch herself up by taking notes on what the other students were offering for his accomplishments, just in case she needed this information later. Her quill posed for a moment hearing Islay's question regarding the discrimination of werewolves, but Professor Recard did not go into too much detail into her response because they were needing to focus on other things, so she went back to scribbling everything else down on her parchment in front of her.
But then, sounded like the note portion was over and they had an in class assignment they needed to do. And K was pleasantly surprised to hear that it actually sounded fun. She would do all magical creatures, and one's that she knew had been in The Care of Magical Creatures, because that seemed like a very straightforward response for how her zoo honored Scamander. But also, she wanted to honor her previous school so she decided to do the Wampus cat, the Horned Serpent and the Thunderbird. All the representations of her siblings previous houses.
Pulling out another clean sheet of parchment, K began her zoo, writing down her animals and their names:
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--Horace the Horned Serpent
--Theodore the Thunderbird
Not very creative, but she'd take it. She thought about filling the rest of her time in class by creating lavish back stories, because sometimes imagination was fun, but she decided she should probably focus on finding photos of her animals first. She stood up and made her way to the piles of magazines after her other class mates, selecting a couple of magical magazines and heading back to her desk as she plopped down and flipped through them.
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It wouldn't surprise Phoebe if her classmates created zoos full of dragons and unicorns and other big, fabulous beasts. And honestly, as she flipped through one of the magazines the professor offered, Phoebe found it tempting. Erumpents and elephants. Or an underwater wonderland with ramoras and dolphins! The sky was the limit.
But if this zoo was in the spirit of Newt Scamander, than even the littlest bugs would catch the man's interest. He liked the dangerous, but he respected the mundane. That was pretty cool. Not much of a zoo, but it would make Phoebe stand out amongst her classmates, right?
"Step right up, step right up, to the Scamander and James Tiny Zoo," she whispered as she rolled out a sheet of paper and began placing torn bits of paper in strategic spots on the page. Was she going to be able to find some pictures of boring creatures in these magazines?
Islay began cutting pieces of the magazine apart as she worked on her collage. She wanted this to look nice, she didn’t just want to slap something together. Islay didn’t consider werewolves to be creatures, to her they were more of a chimera – a human and a beast at the same time…and they deserved the same rights as any human wizards did, even if they were muggle werewolves.
Cutting out the pictures from the wizarding magazines she made sure not to clip any creatures wigs as she worked on her collage. Here we go she thought as she successfully clipped around the wings of a majestic looking grey horse with a shimmering silver-white mane. It was beautiful the whole breed was beautiful. There, she could do this. Adjusting it on the paper she decided to add in another few creatures – who cared if she went a little but extra with this. Right?
Clipping out more winged horses Islay had assembled every breed of winged horses. From the soft grey Granian to the stark black spectral and skeletal Thestrals. Of course, she wasn’t going to loop the Thestral and the other winged horses together, they were carnivores. Clipping another winged creature creatures from the bunch Islay feft like she had enough – sure, it might have been overkill but she didn’t care.
SPOILER!!: ZOO
MOREAU AVIAN & EQUESTRIAN SANCTUARY
--- WINGED HORSES -------ABRAXAN, GRANIAN, AETHONAN
--- CARNIVOROUS WINGED HORSES -------THESTRALS (and any creatures found to also be related to the THESTRAL)
--- KNOWN AVIAN CARNIVORES -------HIPPOGRIFF
Writing down what her plans were for the Sanctuary Islay leaned back and considered it once more. Was this plausible? Did this make sense – and before putting the final touches on the zoo proposal and sticking everything together with sticking charms she gave it a final once over.
MOREAU AVIAN & EQUESTRIAN SANCTUARY
The MOREAU AVIAN & EQUESTRIAN SACNTUARY will focus on the housing and study of Avian creatures. These creatures will be housed based on their diet and known facts – the local Thestral population will be cared for solely by those who can see them – while this is unfortunate for the people caring for them it is beneficial for the breed that they can be cared for by someone that knows when they are in need of care. The creatures housed here will mostly be those that are rescues and some bred in the facilities for the use of magical educational academies such as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The facilities will be capable and staffed to care for the creatures with housing provided for the workers as well as for their families incase of emergencies.
Islay couldn’t help but grin when she heard people acting as if they were running an official zoo calling people to step up to the zoo. It was sweet, and endearing to see how much of a vested interest people were giving the project, and the creatures. Taking a moment to look around Islay just couldn’t help but feel like she had gone overboard YET again…okay, maybe that was her thing?
SPOILER!!: the entire project in one place -- whaaat?
ISLAY MOREAU, GRYFFINDOR SIXTH YEAR
MOREAU AVIAN & EQUESTRIAN SANCTUARY
The MOREAU AVIAN & EQUESTRIAN SACNTUARY will focus on the housing and study of Avian creatures. These creatures will be housed based on their diet and known facts – the local Thestral population will be cared for solely by those who can see them – while this is unfortunate for the people caring for them it is beneficial for the breed that they can be cared for by someone that knows when they are in need of care. The creatures housed here will mostly be those that are rescues and some bred in the facilities for the use of magical educational academies such as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The facilities will be capable and staffed to care for the creatures with housing provided for the workers as well as for their families incase of emergencies.
--- WINGED HORSES -------ABRAXAN, GRANIAN, AETHONAN
--- CARNIVOROUS WINGED HORSES -------THESTRALS (and any creatures found to also be related to the THESTRAL)
--- KNOWN AVIAN CARNIVORES -------HIPPOGRIFF
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IF YOU MAKE HER ____________
curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
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OOoOOooooh designing a zooooooo. Aboli was already scribbling ideas before Recard had even finished explaining. She was DEFINITELY taking the two mundane-one magical route. She just had to figure out the layout and the reasons for why each creature appeared.
Hmm.
Number 1...his early life. He was expelled, then he...what had he done next - she glanced back up at her notes. Then, he was commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts. What's an animal that could represent that part of his life? What's an animal that seemed to be an outcast, but was really quite sweet, perhaps misunderstood? And THEN, Aboli had it. She wrote the FIRST animal her zoo would entertain - sharks. To represent what society might have seen him as - dangerous, outcast, in the deep end - but really, he was smart and just trying to do his best! It was SIMPLY PERFECT. Also, who didn't love visiting sharks? Aboli thought they were cool.
Animal #2. Aboli tapped her quill end against her cheek as she thought. The next part of his life. The COOL part. He met the love of his life AND did the thing for werewolves...what if I did wolves. A pack of 'em! Wolves are really lovey dovey to each other and stick together. It could represent THAT part of his life. And so, she jotted down WHITE WOLVES as the second animal. She figured people would enjoy the regalia of white wolves.
Last animal, and it has to be magical. It should encompass his accomplishments as a WHOLE and everything he did not just for wizards, but for humanity. He banned experimental breeding... Honestly, Aboli just kept thinking about Thunderbirds. So, she added a Thunderbird to her zoo. "A poor zoo with only three animals..." she muttered to herself, but for the sake of the assignment, she was done deciding which creatures she'd include. Sharks. Wolves. Thunderbird. She even had different KINDS of animals - fish, bird, mammal. That was cool, too. She was missing a reptile, her favorite, but eh. She would live!
Now, to cut out pictures of them! She went to go peruse the magazines Recard had told them about.
As one of the students contemplated her assignment, Jacob had made his way from the top of Gabi's desk onto the floor.....and a few moments after that, he was crawling on top of the young girl's shoes. Look at those buckles! Those looked like fun! He played with the silvery part of her shoes for a moment before realizing that this was a futile effort and he moved on.
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Cecelia would MUCH rather be thinking up her very own zoo than coming up with facts to share, so she was SO on board for this activity even if she DID believe creatures should be in their natural habitats and NOT kept in a zoo.
The blonde wasted no time claiming a magazine for herself and she flipped through it cheerfully, wondering what creatures she'd want to feature. The problem was narrowing it down. There were simply TOO many to choose from and so she just decided to start a list and THEN go from there.
Cecelia looked at the list she had so far and propped her chin on her hand, sighing. Maybe she'd just cut out all the options and put them face down and then pick three at random? Hey, yeah! That way it wasn't really HER picking one over another. No picking favorites here!
Another one who was DEEP in thought. They probably wouldn't notice if he just kind of...crawled into her bag, right? Jacob snuck his way into her bag, tossed a quill out of the bag and onto the floor to get it out of his way...but was sadly empty handed when he emerged a moment later. Or was it empty pawed?
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K had spaced momentarily after the second question was posed, primarily because she didn't really know anything about Newt Scamander other than a couple of the creatures he had studied. So when Professor Recard what else he had down for the community? Well, K was at a loss. She was surprised she did as well as she had on the activity by only messing up on 2 placements for the order of events of Scamander's life.
Bringing herself to attention though, she tried to catch herself up by taking notes on what the other students were offering for his accomplishments, just in case she needed this information later. Her quill posed for a moment hearing Islay's question regarding the discrimination of werewolves, but Professor Recard did not go into too much detail into her response because they were needing to focus on other things, so she went back to scribbling everything else down on her parchment in front of her.
But then, sounded like the note portion was over and they had an in class assignment they needed to do. And K was pleasantly surprised to hear that it actually sounded fun. She would do all magical creatures, and one's that she knew had been in The Care of Magical Creatures, because that seemed like a very straightforward response for how her zoo honored Scamander. But also, she wanted to honor her previous school so she decided to do the Wampus cat, the Horned Serpent and the Thunderbird. All the representations of her siblings previous houses.
Pulling out another clean sheet of parchment, K began her zoo, writing down her animals and their names:
Not very creative, but she'd take it. She thought about filling the rest of her time in class by creating lavish back stories, because sometimes imagination was fun, but she decided she should probably focus on finding photos of her animals first. She stood up and made her way to the piles of magazines after her other class mates, selecting a couple of magical magazines and heading back to her desk as she plopped down and flipped through them.
Jacob was getting increasingly annoyed that he hadn't found any good TREASURE yet! This class was seriously disappointing. He hurried over to the desk of a Hufflepuff student, scrambling up her chair as she got up to go get magazines.
Unfortunately for Jacob - and for K - the little toy was still on her chair as she went to sit down, which forced the small toy to JUMP for his LIFE before he was sat on! Even though he was a charmed toy, he still let out a little SQUEAK as his small rubber body hit the floor, and he was off again.
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I'm still standin'________________________________________ better than I ever did
Lookin' like a true survivor_________________________________feelin' like a little kid
Slytherindor ♛ The Crazytastic Besties ♛ Shan Watson ♛
A zoo dedicated to Newt Scamander? How would he design that? He paused, wondering what he should include in there. What sort of animals would be in there..? Definitely a niffler. What other creatures? And what should the zoo be in the shape of? Oh yes, he could picture it now. Newt Scamander's suitcase. Or maybe the suitcase was the entrance to the zoo?
He picked up his quill and started scribbling.
SPOILER!!: Into the Suitcase!
Scamander Sanctuary
Noah Nam, Fifth Year Gryffindor
A zoo dedicated to Newt Scamander would be set in a park. There would be a statue of the great Mazigzoologist cast in bronze and below him would be an enlarged replica of his famous suitcase which was the entrance to the zoo. Stepping inside, you have to go down a spiral staircase to your left and right are aquatic exhibits. There you will see a menagerie of sea creatures cohabiting. If you venture far enough, on your left hand side you will see the colourful sea floor with various sea corals, tropical fish, murtlaps, dolphins, and kelpies cohabitating. To the right hand side, you will see a lake habitat with grindylows, eels, algae, and trout. This is only the beginning of the Scamander Sanctuary.
Leaving the first exhibition, you will find yourself entering a quiet secluded forest at midnight. If you arrive on a certain day, you will either find a unicorn, some winged horses (such as a thestral), or maybe even a doxy or fairy if you're lucky.
At the exit to the zoo, you will find a memoriam to Newt Scamander, congratulating and regaling all of his stories. There's even a portrait of him beside it that has him smiling and interacting with viewers. Occasionally there will be a surprise creature from the exhibit behind him or on his shoulder. As you head for the exit, you'll find a Niffler, happily diving through the donations jar. Rumor has it, he's the descendant of Scamander's trusted Niffler.
He picked up his quill, reading through his work once more, before he picked up a pencil and began sketching. He sketched each of the exhibits briefly from a bird's eye view, then added coloured pencil, and cut out images of said animals to the collage. He put it in a shape of Scamander's suitcase before he took a step back to admire his work.
He just needed one more sentence then his project would be golden.
SPOILER!!: Into the Suitcase!
Scamander Sanctuary
Noah Nam, Fifth Year Gryffindor
A zoo dedicated to Newt Scamander would be set in a park. There would be a statue of the great Mazigzoologist cast in bronze and below him would be an enlarged replica of his famous suitcase which was the entrance to the zoo. Stepping inside, you have to go down a spiral staircase to your left and right are aquatic exhibits. There you will see a menagerie of sea creatures cohabiting. If you venture far enough, on your left hand side you will see the colourful sea floor with various sea corals, tropical fish, murtlaps, dolphins, and kelpies cohabitating. To the right hand side, you will see a lake habitat with grindylows, eels, algae, and trout. This is only the beginning of the Scamander Sanctuary.
Leaving the first exhibition, you will find yourself entering a quiet secluded forest at midnight. If you arrive on a certain day, you will either find a unicorn, some winged horses (such as a thestral), or maybe even a doxy or fairy if you're lucky.
At the exit to the zoo, you will find a memoriam to Newt Scamander, congratulating and regaling all of his stories. There's even a portrait of him beside it that has him smiling and interacting with viewers. Occasionally there will be a surprise creature from the exhibit behind him or on his shoulder. As you head for the exit, you'll find a Niffler, happily diving through the donations jar. Rumor has it, he's the descendant of Scamander's trusted Niffler.
When you leave the zoo, you will see a note to the right. Dedicated to Newt's love of all creatures and their love for him. This is a sanctuary dedicated to a few creatures that he came across throughout his adventures and is a place where young witches and wizards can learn about their favourite animals. Interactive exhibits happen quite often so that any child can be inspired to embrace their dreams as a future Maizoologist.
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