Smiling as Emmy took the seat next to him, Patroclus turned his attention to the telephone and the questions that the wonderous Zooky-Dooks was asking.

"Professor, then both involve the exchange of enegry! With a telephony your voice get's turned into little ball of .........electricity.......yeah that's it. And with the Owls the food that the owl's eat gets turned into energy so that it can flap it's wings!"

To Patroclus that made perfect sense......however probably not to anyone else!!

Crazzy Boy!

Honestly, Josephina didn't know why Legend Chosen was complaining - except that he was probably just one that liked to complain to hear himself complain. One moment he was whining that he wanted to be EXCUSED from her homework and the next it was that they should have separated the classes. Complainer . . .

Shaking her head, she listened to what the students had to say about thw two things in question.



Rising slowing but still maintaining her hands in a resting position on the desk, she nodded at the students who answered about owls and telephones both having to do with messages and communication. Clearly these students had some contact with the muggle world, which was good, she supposed.

"Yes, communication. Messages. All very important to both the owl and, as someone mentioned this device called, the telephone," she said, hoping Jeremy wouldn't mind her intercepting.

Uh ...

"Miss Shepard, I've seen a lot of stuff in my years, but I have never seen a telephone fly."

That was interesting and clearly evident that Destiny was one who did NOT know much about the muggle world. Smart girl no doubt about it, but just muggle studies were not in her favor.




Oh that's a unique point, which was actually probably true and one that Josephina hadn't thought of before. "They can be annoying, especially when dealing with owl droppings ... or busy signals on the telephone."

Josephina looked to the next girl to speak, a young third year Slytherin of whom Fina had definitely seen around once or twice. Interesting similes though that the girl made. The telephone is the muggle version of the owl. "Well muggles don't use telephones for transportation, if that's what you were asking...." she smiled comfortingly at the snake. "But you're right about one thing, it is a substitute for the owl. It's used, as some of your peers said, to communicate."

Good versus evil? Uh ... Fina stared at the next slytherin, bewildered by his sudden -- and outlandish -- statements. She didn't get it. Giving a confused look quickly to Jeremy, she hoped maybe he understood, but then simply shrugged it off. "That all sounds nice .... nicely fictional to me. But thank you." For what, she had no idea.


Looking again over at her colleague, who was remaining awfully quiet, she decided to pick up the lesson a little, as the owl was flying around the room. They'd have to catch it later . . . or get Maya to come help. "So we know the owl is used in the wizarding world for communication purposes, and the telephone for muggles. As this is not a Magical Creatures lesson, we'll be discussing the latter. If you look carefully at the phone, you'll notice that there are numbers on it. Does anyone know how these numbers work?" At least one of these students had to have some connection to muggles, right?

Amber got a confused look on her face. Muggle Studies was definitely not one of her best subjects, nor was Arithmancy. Explain why she took this class again? "Uhh... do certain numbers call certain places? Like how we can make owls go to certain houses?" Oh man, now she was confused! Was each number a different place, or did you combine numbers? Did the number 9 call your Aunt Sally's? She hated the muggle world! They made everything so confusing! <_<

Selena looked at the numbers then grinned. Oooh. She knew. She knew!! She raised her hand before answering. "People with telephones have phone numbers and then if you have someone's phone number you can push the buttons to match it up with the phone number and then it calls them!!!" Selena said with a grin. It was fun punching in the numbers, not remembering the phone numbers. Plus it was good for creeping people out, mmhmm... maybe that was why she was banned from the phone at home... she had never thought of that till now. Hehehe.

Vashti wished she knew what the reason for having class on the kitchen level was because it was really distracting her from what was going on in class. So many yummy smells coming from what was surely yummy food... Gah! She was so lucky she was a Muggle-born and therefore already knew all these Muggle-related things. She'd have to borrow some students' notes otherwise.

Maybe if she forced herself to focus and answer some of these questions, the smells wouldn't distract her so much. She needed to earn some more house points anyway. So she raised her hand. "Well, depending on the phone, you either push the buttons or put your finger in the holes and turn the wheel to dial the numbers to call another person, using whatever phone number they were given," she explained. "A phone number is basically just a bunch of random numbers that were assigned to a person's cell phone - if they have one - or to all the home phones in their house." Quite simple really. More efficient than using owls and writing letters, in her opinion.

One thing Destiny hated about joint classes..they confused the Bertie Bott's out of her. One minute Professor Zooballoon was speaking and the next Professor Hadley was! She was going to get whiplash with the amounts of looking back and forth she was doing.

Back and forth.

Back and forth.

OWL!

Where was that thing at anyway? Probably hiding, and Destiny wouldn't blame it. Having to stay with the Muggle Studies Professor all day? She would hide too.

Eyes on the Arithmancy Professor. She was tempted to ask the woman if she wanted to see a teph-a-lone fly, but decided not to. If she made it fly, it would probably hit the owl or something..or herself. She had bad aim and all. Besides, there was a question asked. A question she knew the answer to! Raising her hand, she waved it around in a Destiny fashion. "You push the numbers and then the teph-a-lone drops you off on that numbered floor."

Yeah, she was getting her muggle objects mixed up.

"Professor, each home has a telephone, for the most part, and each phone has its own unique number. When you know the number of the person you want to call, on this particular phone, you put your finger in the circle above the first number you are calling and move it all the way to the right until you hit that silver piece of metal. You then remove your finger and wait until the dial rotates back into starting position. Repeat this strategy using your next number until all the numbers are dialed. Oh! Before you do this, you need to pick up the receiver...um...the narrow piece on top with the holes on either side to make sure you have a dial tone..." she wasn't sure how to describe what a dial tone was, but she had already babbled enough as it was. "Is that the connection, professor...s? Each home and person in the muggle world is connected to a specific set of numbers?"

Emmy put her hand up - again, saying, "Each number is unique to each phone, whether it be mobile or landline.
For instance, if you were to dial '01234 123456', you would always get the same phone.
However, in special circumstances, you can be allocated a new number for your old phone - like, you get a new SIM card for your mobile, or phone the authorities to change your home phone number without having to change the handset - the bit you hold and speak into."

Salander smiled at Professor Hadley then leaned back, thinking he has very much provided the singularly perfect answer to Professor Zookara's question. But before he had time to gloat the lady Professor followed up with the next question. "Just press the buttons Professor. When you press the right buttons, you get what you want."

Blink.

Wait did he just imply.....

"....Like room service." he added quickly.

Raising her hand Dianna said, "Professor, you have to dial the number you want so that you can connect with the other line and talk to the person you were wishing to talk to." Surely, that's how it works right? *cough*

Louisa chuckled at some answers from students who obviously were pure blood and in no way lived with muggles because she was sure as hell that no telephone flew like an owl!

"You press them, Professor, and some have like a tiny wheel i.e. a dial so you can move it around to each number you wanna press." Old style but they exist.

Pause.

On thinking far ahead the girl assumed most of the students don't know that "Because to communicate you use a certain chain of numbers. Like you reach the telephone of your friend's by this chain of numbers." Sounded complicated now that she tried to explain it but it was how it worked.

Alice raised her hand. "Each muggle who owns a phone has their own ten digit telephone number. In order to contact someone you would merely punch their number into the phone using the buttons." Alice had been responsible for answering the phone at her dad's library in the town since she was six basically.

"Well,every house has its own combination of number,Professor",Fee started to explain,"you have to push the numbers in the right order and you will get connected with the person you want."


At least that was what Fee thought. As a pureblood she had nothing to do with muggle devices....

Keefer waved both hands madly in the air. He knew this one!

"I know about fellytones---I mean, telephones! Almost all Muggle houses have them, whether they are the kind you showed us or the portable kind. Each house's phone has its own unique 10-digit number. If I wanted to call, say, Jim, then I would pick up the telephone that I have in my house, dial the 10-digit number for Jim's telephone, and then wait. After a few seconds, the phone in Jim's house would start making a ringing noise. Like bells, almost. That sounds alerts him that someone is trying to contact him. If he picks up the phone and talks into the correct end, I would be able to hear him and we could talk. Kinda like sticking only your head in the fireplace with Floo powder, only you can't see the other person's head!"

Yes, telephones were awesome. And so magical! Well, in the mysterious way, at least.

It just kept on going round in circles...and yet another round, and another, and another. Jeremy had lost any attention for the class for a moment to focus fully on the gross owl in the classroom. Why had he brought it again? It would have been enough if he had brought a picture or something, but no, he had decided to be extra-creative about this. That's what he got for that. Nice, very nice. Maybe he should instruct the students to catch it?

Totally engrossed in the owl he missed most of the answers the students gave to HIS question. It wasn't until Fina spoke up that he started to half pay attention to the class again. Oh, and Destiny seemed to have had a special answer yet again. Well, he wasn't going to let her demonstrate again. Not even letting the telephone fly. Unless she threw it at the owl.

He finally dragged his eyes away from the owl as he felt Fina's eyes on him. She looked confused. Err. Quickly assessing the situation Jeremy assumed she was talking to Salander who had...right, said something about Batman and Owlman. Clever boy. "It DOES look like the phone from Batman right?" He chuckled lightly and gave the boy a grin before opening his mouth to continue with the lesson...and closed it again. Fina seemed to be in a hurry to go on. Thank MERLIN this wasn't a Care of Magical Creatures lesson. He'd never be able to make a Joint Lesson with Maya...unless they talked about, say, earthworms or something equally tiny.

Somehow it seemed like Amber rather guessed than knew the answer. It was nonetheless correct, though. Partly anyhow. "Yes, correct. It's rather a certain combination of numbers, which make you be able to call certain places." He was not going to go into speed-dialing now. They were probably going to be throwing telephones stuff at him if he did, because they would be so confused.

Phew. At least Destiny hadn't demanded to demonstrate just how well a telephone could fly. Once again, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist allowing her to. Though he wasn't sure what Fina would have thought of that. Besides, she could have hit somebody with the telephone, which would have been bad. Really bad. Unless it would have been the owl.

Teph-a-lone? "It's telephone." Jeremy automatically corrected her before turning around to write the word onto the board in capital letters. TELEPHONE. There, so, now back to her answer. "No, it doesn't exactly drop you off anywhere, it's not a portkey." It was only then that he noticed the similarity to something else. Something else which wasn't completely Muggle-only. "It's not an elevator either." Or not. She couldn't have mistaken the telephone for an elevator right?

When you press the right buttons, you get what you want. That...sounded funny. Giggle!Snort. Even though it probably wasn't meant to. But it did. Biting his lip to keep himself from bursting out laughing, he couldn't help but glance at Fina briefly to see if she thought it was funny too. "Right." Cue big grin into Salander's direction as he tried to explain what he had been trying to say. Just like room service.

Or something.



Nodding at the various correct answers, Jeremy slowly made his way over to the door and...opened it for the owl to fly out. It would find its way to the owlery right? And if not, oh well, somebody was going to show it the way. Or not. Watching the owl zoom out the open door the 32 year old quickly slammed it shut behind it. Now, at least that was taken care of.

"Absolutely correct." He grinned at the students, obviously relieved about the absence of the owl. Mouthing a 'thanks' into Fina's direction he nodded yet again. "As most of you have mentioned, pushing the buttons in a certain order enables the caller to call somebody. However, in this case-" He held up the red telephone again. "-you would have to turn the little thing here instead of pushing buttons, like Legend has mentioned." Giving the boy a small smile he demonstrated it on the telephone before bending down to pick up something else. Something a lot smaller. "Now, as some of you said, this is a rather old telephone, nowadays people rather use models like this one." Yes, this was something they were probably more familiar with.

Putting both objects back onto the table Jeremy turned to face the class again. "Anybody know in who is said to have invented the telephone? There are several correct answers to this one, actually, please only name one though." Yes, it was still not completely certain who had in fact invented it.

Alice raised her hand. "Alexander Graham Bell was one muggle who was involved in making the telephone."

This was a rather unusual invention. Trixie eyed the...telephone, momentarily before racking her brains over what she had read in her textbook, because SHE certainly didn't own one of them. Maybe she should get someone to buy her one. They looked kinda, cool.

Now someone involved in inventing this weird thing. "Was there someone called...." Erm what was his name? See this is what you got for being a Pureblood living in remote Wales. "...Thomas Edison? He was supposed to be involved somehow right?" she asked. At least the Swotty Slytherin had read somewhere or other. Muggles were something she HAD to read up on herself, after knwing nothing about them whatsoever.

Freya raised her hand "Umm..A muggle named Elisha Gray?" she said uncertain.

"I've heard that there was a young black man named Lewis Lattimer who contributed to Alexander Bell's patent drawings," Kurumi offered as most people had already mentioned the big names. She oogled the iPhone sitting on the table for a moment and wished the she had one. Her pink phone that rested in her robe's pocket was a bit old now.

She looked at the expensive phone that the professor had held up and sighed. If she had a phone like that life would be amazing.Daisy raised her hand, "Alexander Bell invented the telephone." At least that's what she had been taught.

"Alexander Bell invented the telephone." She answered after raising her hand. And again in her mind, the girl was wondering what's telephones got to do with both subjects; Muggle Studies and Arithmancy.

Oh!
Blink blink.

It's a muggle device that contained numbers! How could she not notice the obvious link before!? She should get more sleep and forget about spending too much time in the library.

"Wasnt that Charles Bourseul a muggle from France",Fee said raising her hand.The professor said there were several answers, so this could actually be right.