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The reason for this lesson to be held downstairs near the Kitchens is something only Professors Hadley and Zookara know. Talking of whom, the two are both standing near the teacher's desk in the front of the classroom, talking quietly to each other, while waiting for the students to arrive. This is a simple room which has been slightly refurbished, leaving it looking like a normal classroom, had there not been the constant delicious smell from the nearby kitchen.
Please take a seat, and refrain from excessive chatting, the lesson will begin shortly.
OOC: The lesson has now officially started. Any late arrivals risk losing house points, just pretend you've been here all along. Make sure to be familiar with both the rules for Arithmancy and Muggle Studies.
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!!
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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.
SPOILER!!: all who answered something to do w communication
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"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.....
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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?
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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.
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Daisy raised her hand, "They are both communication devices, Professor."
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"Their both used for communacation" she said. This class was too easy. Way to easy.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
SPOILER!!: they're annoying... the objects, not the students! ;P
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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.
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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!
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."
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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.
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."
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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.
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?
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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!
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Grayson had held back a giggle as the owl Professor Zookara had let loose flew around the room, not to mention at Salander's answer to the question. Of course they were talking about communication, even though she didn't have an owl of her own. They had a telephone at her house, though. So this discussion was exciting to her, not to mention the amusement of watching the owl. It was a good thing Draco was nowhere around, though. Didn't owls eat small rodents? That would be the one reason she didn't want one, even though they were fun to watch when they acted crazy like that.
Ohh, but then Professor Hadley had spoken, and she raised her hand. "Muggles have what is called a telephone number, series of numbers strung together which is how each telephone connects to the others. The numbers on the phone are used to dial the number of whoever they are trying to contact, and the phone, or the operator, connects the dialer to whoever they are dialing." Sometimes it paid to have a Muggle parent.
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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?
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.
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Did anyone know how the number's worked? Seriously?
REALLY now?! Legend snorted. Oh Hadley what a funny, funny person you were. "Well professor, you see those little hole things? You stick your finger in them and turn them to the right."He said as though he were explaining it to a little child. Maybe it was to the left though? Oh well. Alright time to be serious, there might have been purebloods in here. "Like the other's said you need telephone numbers and such but that doesn't really matter. What DOES matter is connected that plug thing to an outlet and having a connection with the...phone company and stuff." Telephones were boring, who cared how they worked! This wasn't Muggle Studies class! Oh...wait....
GAHHH the two professors were confusing him.
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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?
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.
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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.
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?
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.
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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?
"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?"
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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."
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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?
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.
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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*
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?
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.
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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?
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.
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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.
SPOILER!!: they're annoying... the objects, not the students! ;P
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?
"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....
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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?
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.
"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.
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?
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.
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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!
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.
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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.
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?
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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.
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.
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Ohh, but then Professor Hadley had spoken, and she raised her hand. "Muggles have what is called a telephone number, series of numbers strung together which is how each telephone connects to the others. The numbers on the phone are used to dial the number of whoever they are trying to contact, and the phone, or the operator, connects the dialer to whoever they are dialing." Sometimes it paid to have a Muggle parent.
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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.
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Did anyone know how the number's worked? Seriously?
REALLY now?! Legend snorted. Oh Hadley what a funny, funny person you were. "Well professor, you see those little hole things? You stick your finger in them and turn them to the right."He said as though he were explaining it to a little child. Maybe it was to the left though? Oh well. Alright time to be serious, there might have been purebloods in here. "Like the other's said you need telephone numbers and such but that doesn't really matter. What DOES matter is connected that plug thing to an outlet and having a connection with the...phone company and stuff." Telephones were boring, who cared how they worked! This wasn't Muggle Studies class! Oh...wait....
GAHHH the two professors were confusing him.
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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.
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"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?"
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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."
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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*
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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.
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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.
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"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....
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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.
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.
Roxxy took notes as Professors Zookara and Hadley spoke about the telephone and owls. They were both ways of communicating with other people. The telephone she new was a lot quicker at least the modern ones. When Professor Zookara asked who had invented the telephone Roxxy's hand shot up like a lightening bolt. "The telephone was invented by a muggle named Antonio Meucci but Alexander Bell was the one who patented the telephone."
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
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