Freya raised her hand "I believe it's a Telephone, Professor and it was rather old fashioned telephone." she said. What it has to do with today lesson anyway?

"Absolutely correct." He grinned at the four people who had answered his question, mentally noting their names for participation. "Now, you probably know the Wizarding World does not have telephones, however, we have something else." And here came the part of the lesson he was probably going to dislike most. Jeremy reached down once again to release one of the weird grey school owls from its cage so it could sit on top of the desk...or fly around the classroom. Nice. That had NOT quite gone as planned.

"Okay, err-" He drew his attention from the gross owl and back to the class. "-you probably have identified this as an owl." If not, there was something seriously wrong with them...and Maya was failing to teach them anything. "What do those two have in common?" At this he gestured back and forth between the telephone in his right hand and the owl. Would it be inappropriate to mobilize the owl? Probably not. It WOULD come back to the cage when it was done with...whatever it was doing.

Or he could throw the phone at the owl?

"They're both er.... used for communication?" Fletcher answered, his attention not at all on the professors but rather on the owl. Oooh live animals and muggle fellytones.

This class was going to be fun.

Fletcher allowed first his eyes, and then his head and entire neck, to follow the path of the owl as it circled the room. Around and around and around she goes, where she stops... nobody knows! Though it would be like superawesome if the owl landed on one of the professor's heads....

He started rummaging around in his bag with one hand while he continued watching the owl's trajectory. If he could just find one of those little owl treats he'd been feeding Muffin the other day.....

Destiny watched with narrowed eyes as the Muggle Studies Professor let the owl fly around the classroom. He probably did that on purpose, to have the thing peck her eyes out. Well, if it did peck her eyes she would not be pleased.

Not. Pleased. At. All.

Professor Zooballoon saw what she could do with a Beater's Bat, imagine what she could do with a teph-a-lone..or whatever the thing was called. She didn't speak muggle. Raising her hand after the question, she rolled her eyes. The answer was so obvious, it would probably bite if it had teeth. "They can both fly."

The teph-a-lone could fly..

..if she threw it.

Rubiey felt someone sit next to her, and broke into a smile when she saw it was Alice. Awesome. They'd have fun this lesson then..

Rubiey looked up when Professor Zookara held up the telephone first, then released the owl. Uh, why was it flying around? She did NOT feel like washing bird poo out of her hair. She narrowed her eyes at it.

"They are both used for communication, sir." But how was that anything to do with Arithmancy? Would they learn... morse code or something? That had numbers, right?

OMG look at the owl! She sooooo wanted her owl back. Just not No-Name. Felix can have that bird. Crazy thing.

Oops! Distracted!

Well the only thing she could think of they had in common would have been that they were used for communication. Except, well no, she knew one more thing. "They both can be sometimes really really annoying."

Mmhmm. Really, really annoying.

Fee raised her hand. Of course she knew what that was.

"They are both used to contact others", she explained,"muggles call friends,family or whatever with their phone and we sent letters with our owls."

Owl. Flying around the classroom.

Poor thing.

Meh... as long as it didn't decide to dive bomb them with droppings.

Oliver crinkled his nose and watched the bird before turning his attention back to the front of the class. He raised his hand.

“They're both used for communication, sir.” He replied. “But the muggle way is, like, waaay faster. Like instantaneous. Owling someone is more akin to using the muggle postage system... or using a carrier pigeon.” heh.

Before the either Professor's had said anything two student's had spoken up. A Gryffindor and a Ravenclaw. He nodded at the boy's answer. That was true...less classes!

"Alright, whatever you say sir." Yes sir, fine sir, the world made sense when you combined two lessons into one, to teach about a bright red phone. Yeah...right. Legend raised his hand, although alot of people already answered before him. He would need to put another spin on his answer then. "Well, they are both used when you are not able to physically talk or communicate to someone because the distance. Like you wouldn't call or owl someone standing three feet away from you." Yup, he knew his stuff.

Emmaleigh watched the owl fly around the classroom, and it reminded her that she needed to go visit Halt. She was sure he would love to take a letter to her parents. She raised her hand. "They are both used for communication. The telephone uses voice, the Owl, takes letters."

Sophia smiled. She knew what that was!! "That is a muggle telephone sir." she said. "And an old one at that." she said, truthfully. Now people used iPhones and stuff. Not red blobs.

Alice smiled at Rubiey once she had noticed she was sitting next to her. Classes were always more enjoyable when you knew the person you were sitting next to.

Alice felt bad she hadn't answer the first question, because she did indeed know that it was a telephone. After all she had one in her own home. She watched as Professor Zookara opened the owls age, looking at it with such dislike that Alice wondered why Professor Zookara seemed to despise owls.

"Both an owl or a telephone can be used to communicate with another person that is too far away from you to talk in person. Telephones are a good bit quicker than owls though, considering phones allow for instantaneous communication while owls can take a couple of days to get back to you, depending on how far away the person you are trying to communicate with is."

Kurumi giggled at Professor Zookara as he pulled out a rather old telephone. We have moved on a lot more to using smaller phones she laughed to herself tapping her pink cellphone that lay tucked away in her pocket.

"Professor," she smiled raising her hand and trying not to giggle too much. "Both owls and a telephone are used to deliver messages and communicate."

Selena raised her hand. Why didn't they used smaller phones? Weren't there such things? Weren't those the tiny little devices muggles started screaming into and typing on furiously? Whatever. Old-fashioned schools came with old-fashioned telephones. Hehehe.

"The two are used for the delivery of messages," Selena said. 'And the two don't look very pretty at all...' she added in her mind.

His eyes narrowing as he considered the question, What do they have in common? he pondered, shifting his head between the red telephone and the owl....

Ah Epiphany! "They can represent the never ending struggle of good versus evil Professor" the lad explains "The red telephone has been used to call Batman for help...." he said gesturing to the red unit ".... specially when one of his notorious nemesis-- Owlman-- shows up and wreaks havoc on innocent civilians!" he said as he pointed to the owl.

Vienna looked with sceptism at the tefalone or whatever it was called she wondered how on earth muggles communicated with that. She watched as the owl was released and thought now that i can trust to get my messages through

Daisy raised her hand, "They are both communication devices, Professor."

"Their both used for communacation" she said. This class was too easy. Way to easy.

"They are used for Muggles or Wizards, in our case, to communicate with each other quickly and with ease. Well, telephones are much quicker, but owls are more efficient, as you don't need to tell them where to go to find someone. You just send them on their way!" she answered happily. This was too easy. Considering she was Muggle-born, hehe.

Amber raised her hand. "Professor, they both make really annoying sounds when they're working... or living." She'd experienced the very annoying sounds of a muggle telephone before and it was not pretty. She'd ended up smashing the phone with her cousin's beaters bat. HA! That was fun!

Hah! An owl.
"Well they both can send messages from a great distance.." Dianna said a she lowered her hand.
Although owls are way cooler.. Dianna thought.

An owl and a telephone?What they have in common? Freya raised her hand "Umm..They both used to communicate with other people. The muggles used telephone while wizards used owl as their communication device. Although a telephone was so much easier than an owl. It's quicker too." she said lowering her hand.

Louisa blinked. A telephone and an owl? Like.. they're both too weird to be here in this class, Daah! Seriously, was the teacher being funny or something? Eeer... no. He wasn't because nobody laughed or even smiled. Meh.

She raised her hand determined to answer the question with [i]creativity[/b]. "Both can be obtained easily." That was her first thought. "And everybody could use both of them, no exceptions. Both can deliver messaged verbal or written." She ended with a proud smile.

Hazel wiggled in her seat. She smiled at the Professors. Hehe...muggle math! Hazel doesn't want to brag or anything, she tried muggle math before. And she's kind of good at it. She had already memorized her times tables...,well, maybe except for 7.

Hazel hid a smirk. Hehe. She can't remember the last time she has been so excited for a class. But Muggle Studdies? It's not that bad but she doesn't exactly like it either. Oh well, I'll live, Hazel thought.



Uh...

Hazel's brain went blank.

Whoosh!

Well, whatever it is that the muggle invented, it was a bit pretty. But WHAT IS IT?? There was a bunch of number on there, and pretty wires! She would definetly want one of them, that's for sure. She wouldn't know how to use it. But it's pretty for decoration!

Hazel pinched herself. What was she thinking? Get down to Earth and start paying attention! She thought maybe it was a a type of odd drink in side that the muggles drink? No, it can't be. It has to have something Arithmancy. Hazle shrugged what could that be?

She raised her hand. "Um...professor? I was just thinking, if they can't use magic, then they have to have something to substitute for it right? The main things that I can think of that muggles don't have are Owls for one example, they aren't smart...I mean thoughtful enough to domesticate them to get them to send mails to each other. The other one's is wand, can that possibly subsitute for our wand?" Hazel thought carefully. "And maybe a subsitute for transportation maybe? I mean we have our broomsticks they probably don't. Is any of them correct" Hazel asked. The transportation one is probably the least probability. How can muggles fit in there? Well, it's just a thought.

Emmy raised her hand, saying "They're both communication devices - an owl takes your letter to the intended recipient, while a telephone converts the sound waves of your voice into electrical pulses, sends them to the telephone you called, which then converts the pulses back into sound waves. Hence phoning is quicker than sending an owl..."
That had to be the easiest question she'd ever been asked - and of course it helped enormously being muggleborn, as she'd been lectured on the workings of many electrical and electronic devices in her short life.