Daisy was about to say baseball, why else would a muggle use a beater bat? But then as she watched the professor throw t up and catch it she found a chill run down her spine, "Is todays lesson centered around clowns Professor?" She was terrified of clowns. Her dad had made them live in the muggle world for three years so she was versatile in the ways of the universe. "Or the things a clown does for their profession such as juggling?"

Huh? Not about Quidditch... Aww that's sad. Louisa was raising her hopes here. A bat and a Muggle holding it.. of course she knew! She lived among muggles all of her life. She raised her hand excitedly, "Playing Baseball, Sir?" Smiling widely as she stared at the Professor.

Oliver smiled at Cam when she poked her tongue out at him. They so needed to go head to head on the Quidditch pitch sometime... although that wasn't going to happen in school now was it? Thanks to the Triwizard shizz.

Oliver eyed the Beater's Bat in Zookara's.. and then Trixie. Too many bad memories there what with Cricket balls, broken noses and Hospital Wings.

He raised his hand. “Could be used for Baseball, sir.. or Rounders?”

To be honest, Ella's knowledge of Quidditch was lacking. Almost as much as that girl who didn't even know what it was. She would've just said 'two teams flying around on broomsticks'... or something along those lines. She eyed the Beater's Bat that the professor held up, and really had no idea what a Muggle would use it for? Squishing spiders? Whacking their enemies down? Or maybe the professor's juggling was a hint, and that's exactly what they did with the bats. Juggle them.

Errr, deciding that she'd look like a fool if she said that, she thought of something else and raised her hand reluctantly. "Do they play sports with it too? Just not Quidditch, obviously." But she knew that Bat's were used for hitting balls. So, maybe a Muggle ball game? Eh. Her answer was just common sense really. The Wizarding folk used it for a sport, so maaaybe the Muggles would too?

"Eli Jarod, second year 'claw, sir." Eli piped up. "I adore quidditch. I will probably be quite good one day; my father was legendary, and I already have a broom of a famous quidditch player." he beamed with pride. "A signed broom. I want to play all positions, haven't figured out which is best but will probably do as my father did."


Eli's hand shot up again. "That's a cricket bat, I do believe. They use it in muggle sports and also for beatings during muggle riots. Muggles have riot seasons where every year or so they get up a ruckus and beat on each other and loot, which is a muggle word that means breaking a window and stealing something." His stepfather had told him all about that. Eli was going to ace this class!

Lori liked this Professor. For one, he had spoken about Quidditch AND.. well, you ask any other female what the other reason was. GO. AHEAD.

She hadn't mentioned she played Beater, but had nodded when some other people mentioned it. Yes. Beaters were awesome. INDEED.

At seeing the bat, she grinned a bit, and clapped her hands just lightly, before putting her hand in the air. "I dunno.. Muggle sports? Like that.. Rounders? Yeah. Rounders. OR.. You know, they might just be hate someone, and go and hit them with it." Which was incredibly mean.

Hang on was she being eyed?

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"How about for aiming Cricket balls at certain Captains heads?" she smirked, battered her eyelashed innocently and then slowly turned her head to look at Oliver quickly. Oh yes she was gonna bring that up. Even if it was just for a laugh. And it could be a good use. You COULD want to aim a cricket ball at someones head. *Sigh* But she'd have to be serious wouldn't she? "Muggle Sports" she grinned. "Like some have said, baseball" she continued.

Hang on...Wait. They were using bats.

*Evil Grin*

Brant was really excited. "Professor, are we playing Baseball?." he asked "I love Baseball" he quickly added.

A part of Vashti knew this lesson couldn't possible be about Quidditch - it was Muggle Studies after all and Muggles didn't play Quidditch - but she couldn't help getting her hopes up anyway. So of course she was sad when the professor admitted the lesson had nothing to do with Quidditch. Sigh.

But what Muggles sports used a bat? Oh yes, she knew this one, though she had never been extremely fond of most Muggle sports. Despite being Muggle-born. "Muggles play baseball with a bat," she answered after raising her hand. "Or cricket."

Nia raised her hand. "Rounders?" she answered with a grin. She'd loved that at a youngster, and if this was as close as she was gonna get to Quidditch, she was going to seize the opportunity. "Or a if you varied the wooden bat a bit it could be used for cricket, or croquet, or table tennis..."

She looked thoughtful. Whatever, it'd burn some excess energy she had from not having Quidditch practice. Oh yes, she so wanted to play.

The first thing that came to mind was that of baseball when she seen the bat. She grew up in the muggle world so she knew all to well what that was about. She felt everyone had given her suggestion enough so she kept her hand down and waited to see if they were indeed going to play baseball... or at least learn about it because she definetly didnt know what rounders was?

Baseball? Cricket?

She knew what baseball was sorta but..."They had an insect game?" Unless, the bugs were the one to be playing with those bats. OR, the muggles hit the crickets with the bats.

...that still made no sense. How was that a game?

"They hit people things with it." Obviously. Right?! Not just little round white balls in that baseball game. It could be used as a self defense thing. Mmhmm, she remembered that defense class in first year. First year was it right? They didn't use bats, but they could totally be used if it was nearby and someone was trying to rob you.

Aha! Treyen was supposed to stay after class. Grin. Perhaps his brother would've offer some enlightenment? Hopefully.

The boy nodded and then missed the chance to answer the previous question. Frown.

But this was a new one....he knew! Treyen raised his hand before answering. "Well, they also hit balls with it, except those balls don't have a mind of their own. They play baseball with that bat" aha, aha, a nod to his precious golden-brown hair.

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They were talking about sports, Savannah knew nothing about sports. She knew that most sports had a ball but that was about it. Savvy eyed the seat next to her, the empty one, and pouted. No sign of Ai-Ai.

Cricket?

"What's a cricket....?"Dude, she grew up around muggles and didn't even know what a cricket was. Hehh. She was looking around the room, hoping for an answer.

Aha, Zookara or whatever his name was, was speaking to her again.

The blonde turned towards him, her hair flopping in her face. She quickly flipped it out of her face before smiling at him, she was still playing that innocent act. "Uhmmmm.....yeah..."

Savannah Conrad didn't like this man even if he was a cutie.

"I'm not changing into flat shoes, sorry."Was she sorry? No, not really. She just REALLY didn't want to wear flats they made her walk full and she just didn't like them in general. Savvy clutched onto the duck pillow, smirking at him.

Hehhhh. She was going to have fun with this professor.

"well if it is a beatters bat it will be short for base ball not much of a strike zone ,so it could be use for somthing like T-ball ,and i would rather do the who's on first routine then explain all the rules of base ball..... dont even want to think about the infield fly rule"

Trent raised an eyebrow as she looked at the Professor... Who she could look at all day if she was allowed. He was rather dashing. The Slytherin resisted the urgh to giggle. "Muggle's could... hit things... play sports... juggle... beat people up... vandalise property..." Trent knew she was being vague but apart from what she had already learnt in Muggle Studies, there wasn't much she knew about Muggles in general.

Alice had never felt her cheeks turn so red in her entire life. How could her mother not have explained these things to her? She might have well have been a complete muggle born since her mother was not making any effort to tell her anything about this world.

"Yes, that explained it very well thanks," Alice said, shrinking deeper into her chair. "A muggle could use a bat for baseball," Alice offered quietly.

Marie sat there listening to what everyone thought that stupid bat could be used for in the muggle world. It was rather obvious to her. It was for beating those idiot muggles that annoyed you... or not. From the sounds of everyones answers the thing was used for some sort of muggle sport.

Sports!

Why did they have to talk about sports in here? Don't muggles do anything besides play blasted sports? If that's all they did she was glad she was a witch because she hated sports. Unless of course she was watching Carter play quidditch.

Leilani raised her hand and gestured to the bat. "Well you could like... hit somebody with it." Pause. Hehe. "Or, y'know, baseball." That thing deffinitely looked like a baseball bat.

Yes, baseball, Leilani and her Americaness. Huh, so was cricket like the brittish version of baseball? Hmph. Brittish people and their weirdo words. Sheesh. Like, biscuit meant cookie. Jeez, that was confusing. How about everybody just said cookie? There. Problem solved.

"With a beaters bat one could play baseball, sir." Sophia said, smiling. "Baseball is the best muggle sport ever." she said, kind of softly. "I played when I was younger, and I still play sometimes." she added, smiling. She could go on and on about baseball, but she was pretty sure the professor didn't want a lecture on something he already knows.

Em raised her hand. "I'm E-emmaleigh, sir, and It c-could't really be used for any s-sports, because they all have t-their own official bats, but you c-could use it for self defense."

Alex rose her hand slowly, "My name is Alexandrie, it really depends on the type of bat being used, some muggles even use bats as a weapon and others use them to play sports or games with them." Alexandrie explained hesistantly not sure if she covered everything, being pureblood and staying in the magical world she knew only a little things about muggles.

Rex raised his hand. " Professor I am Rex Trigwell" he introdueced himself. I played Quiddith at SweetWater, Texas " I p;ayed Keeper" Rex told him. " I tried out for my tram but did not make it here and then hurt my shoulder" Rex explained to the professor. " My shoulder is fine now" he told him." batts are used for playing the muggle sport Baseball, sir" Rex explained to him.

"Oh, well, my names Chloe, and I know muggles also use bats to hit something and it's not always for sport or crime. Some muggles hit something that is broken beyond repair for fun. It's a kind of stress relief for some people. I took part in one once. A fundraiser from my home community center destroying a car beyond repair. Ypo gotta rear proper equipment though. Goggles and longsleeves and and we had to sign a waiver of lialbility. It was crazy but it's an obscur thing that some muggles d with bats.", chlow responded with her hand raised high.

Salander looked up and furrowed his brows, then raised a quill before replying "Well, it looks like an extremely undersized baseball bat." he offered "Also kind of a roundish Cricket bat. Uhm... some Muggle cops use a skinnier kind of bat like that. And...." he hesitated for a moment, but decided to go ahead with it anyway "..in some old cultures they use bats to wash the laundry."He wasnt making that up this time. It was so true!