Daphne had been busy not looking at everyone on the other side. Especially not at Celandine. She continued to not make eye contact even as she let herself drop on a beanbag recklessly.

"Herpo the Foul, sir."

Rhea smiled and sighed deeply. Finally...something other than blood tension. She plopped unto a cushion and shot her hand up in the air.
" Bellatrix Lestrange Sir," she said confidently.
"And her husband," she added as an after thought.

Rhea frowned someone else had said her answer.
"Hmm..Peter Pettrigrew played a huge part in the Rise well second Rise of Voldemort."

Cela sat down where Cope had indicated, giving him a little grin and settling comfortably before raising her free hand. "Technically, Durmstrang students are taught Dark Arts rather than defence against so it might be a generalisation but there are definitely Dark Artists associated with that Institute..."

Y'know.

Like her brothers.

Fred took a seat on one of the beanbags in the middle of the room and then looked through his text book and raised his hand and said, "I believe Salazar Slytherin was pretty dark wizard sir considering he made the Chamber of Secrets which held a Basalisk which traveled Hogwarts through the pipes is pretty dangerous considering just looking into their eyes could kill a person".

Awww, poo. I missed all the fun.
 

One thing was for sure - History of Magic was definitely not boring at all today. Rachel's senses were aleart to each and every movement of her classmates and found herself feeling very uncomfortable with all the questions Truebridge was asking. The red line that had previously angered her so much? Now it just scared her.

She had thought that the pureblood mania was finished. Gone - no more. After the legendary Harry Potter, people should have learned that no good comes out of it. Yet Evolette McKenna and Willow Kovak were still standing on the other end of the line. On the part that stated that it should matter... But it SHOULDN'T!

Rachel had walked over and placed herself on the right side of the line from the very beginning and had stayed there until the very end. It really really scared her that not many people had joined her. She had no idea there were so many purebloods in her grade...

Then again, she didn't really think of blood status every day - thankfully. She, of course, had nothing to be ashamed of when concerning her muggle born status (although she IS stlightly ashamed of her family - about their own prejudice... The exact opposite to the one they were talking about) but it was still unnerving to be standing there with the lesser amount of people.

. . . Did he REALLY expect her to just jump back into the lesson like that, after such a DEEEEEP beginning? Shaking her head slightly, she leaned on the wall and kept silent - preferring not to take a seat. Taking a seat meant going back to reality and while this state she was in wasn't the most pleasant one, she wasn't ready to go back just yet.

Phoebus had stayed rather quiet the entire time during class; He'd been on the Muggleborn side of the line seeing as how neither of his parents were even remotely magical at all. Quite the surprise Phoebus had been, that was for sure. He moved on to the current topic and he raised his hand from where he sat. " Well, there were Alecto and Amycus Carrow." He said, and he paused to think again for a moment, hand still raised. " I'd think that they'd sort of...well qualify as Dark Wizards." He said, feeling a bit out of sorts and oddly defensive about how some people seemed to place so much importance on blood status. He was a Muggleborn and he never had any trouble with any of his subjects. Sure he might not like some of them, but he always managed to do better than a good deal of his classmates who were now being revealed to be Purebloods.

Kiri lowered herself onto one of the big cushions and crossed her legs awkwardly. She put her hand under her chin and watched as the other students chose somewhere to sit, thinking. Some of the views of some of them in the previous exercise had surprised her a little, but now that she came to think of it, as someone who had never spent much time even considering this (maybe from her comfortable position as a pure-blood), it was only to be expected that upbringing and personal experience changed how one saw the world.

What interested her the most was how people had looked when they'd stood... wherever they'd stood. Some seemed apologetic. Some defiant. And some had been really uncomfortable. Was that when character and experience didn't quite fit with what was the generally considered norm? On matters such as the importance of blood status?

She straightened up a little and raised her hand. "Professor, I believe there is also the, er... Gode...lots? Godelots? Father and son. They were owners of the Elder Wand. The father, er, used the Wand's power when he wrote Magick Moste Vile, didn't he?" Kiri paused. "No, I'm sorry, Most Evile. Anyway," she went on," he was killed by his son who wanted to possess the Elder Wand."
She paused again before continuing, "And I suppose the followers of all those Dark wizards could be added as well, even though, er, I don't really know any names."

Chris raised his hand and said, "What about all the wizards that were part of Voldemort's group the Death Eaters? And If you were wantinga more infamous Dark Wizard then Voldemort himself, or Grindenwald?" he said giving his answer.

Daniel was nodding at the answers his classmates had given. Then he raised his hand and said, "Professor, how about Regulus Black? Can he be counted eventhough he changed for the good in the end?"

Ray thought multiple times and listened to all the answers before it came to his mind... A bad wizard a bad werewolf. "Fenrir Greyback?" Ray answered.

LouAnn didn't know most of her classmates, so she wasn't one-hundred percent sure who she should be surprised about or not, when it came to taking a stand on that line. So instead of looking too much into that, she she focused her attention on the pile of cushions and beanbags that had been summoned to the center of the classroom. She chose a comfortable looking beanbag and took a seat before raising her hand.

"Antonin Dolohov is a famous dark wizard," she replied. LouAnn's mother had discussed Dolohov with her and Lucas once while being home-schooled at the Purple's dining room table. Supposedly, the man was one of the earliest Death Eaters and was responsible for torturing a number of people.

Audio fond a open seat on the cousins and plopped down, looking around the room as everyone began to speak of different dark wizards. A bunch of names started to list in his mind. He was taught a lot about that subject seeing as most of his family came from most of them. He found himself raising his hand after thinking of one that no one else had said, "The Gaunt family."

People were soooo quick. It was unfair. But Livvy racked her brain for ideas, as she crossed her arms and tapped her foot on the floor as she thought about it. What other dark peeps were there? Everyone else had stated the basic ones. What was left for HER to say?

Ehh... Raising her hand, Livvy gave an answer. "Um. Would Circe count as one? I don't think that turning into a beast is particularly a delightful encounter. And Merwyn the Malicious... not too great of a person for inventing all those jinxes and hexes." What else? She thought so more for a few moments, searching for another famous dark wizard.

"Ooh. What about Barty Crouch Jr., sir? I believe he may have been involved in the Dark Arts one way or another," Livvy said. Hmm.

She chuckled gently at Plymouth's comment on Professor Kazimeriz being involved in the Dark Arts. The guy was CREEPY... that's fo sho... she'd give the boy that. And really... what professor gave a student ear hair on the first day? Apparently one that was like Kazimeriz.

So unfair! All the other students were naming people before she could even remember what a dark wizard was. But Nikki thought hard, trying to think of a dark wizard she had learned, read, or heard about. Finally thinking of someone, Nikki raised her hand. "Um Godelot Sr?" She said, unsure. "I think he owned the Elders Wand at some point." She added.

Truebridge just turned to look at Plymouth and shook his head once.

If you can't say anything nice...



"You are mixing up Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle; their fathers were indeed Deatheaters and dark wizards, but do you think casting a dark spell automatically makes someone a dark wizard? I'll add them to the list but we'll discuss it further." Truebridge answered.



"Is it fair, do you suppose, to make a generalisation about a whole family? Was every Gaunt automatically dark? I'll add this one to the list but once again it will be a discussion point." Truebridge told the Slytherin boy.

"Circe was an expert in transfiguration. Doing something distasteful doesn't nearly constitute performing dark magic. Otherwise everyone one of you who have thrown a hex or a jinx or a curse would be considered dark wizards and that is simply not the case."

"Many of the owners of the Elder Wand could in fact be considered dark wizards."

Truebridge flicked his wand and a list appeared on the board.

So, again; do you think casting a dark spell automatically makes someone a dark wizard? Is it fair to make a generalisation about a whole family?" Ethan asked the class as a whole.

"And what exactly makes a dark wizard dark anyway?"