Rae, who was now sitting with this group of guys stared in amazement at Salander. How did he know all this stuff? He seemed to have about six answers to every question. Which Rae had also heard in Arithmancy. How come Rae didn't know anything? Her thoughts showed through to her face. She felt really stupid. Whatever baseball was, or cricket. Rae would beat everyone when it came to how to live on your own. However books, school, being a student. Rae was doomed.

Sports?

They were going to study muggle sports?

Mia groaned and thumped her head on the desk. She hated sports! She sucked at sports? Raising her hand in the air but leaving her head on the desk, she spoke but her voice was kind of muffled. "It looks like a baseball or softball bat. A cricket bat is flat not round." She should know. How many times had she been chased out of the vegetable garden with one? "Oh and my name is Mia Gibbins, fourth year Hufflepuff."

Sidney smiles at her fellow Hufflepuff. She's not too thrilled to be studying Quidditch and muggle games. Sidney raises her hand. "Sidney Marlowe, sir, Hufflepuff third year." She doesn't remember if the professor asked them to introduce themselves. "The Beater Bat is similar in shape to the American bats used in baseball and softball. Personally, I think the Quidditch bat more closely resembles a Rounder Bat. Rounder is a game similar to baseball and softball. It's played in Great Britain and Ireland." Sidney figures her answer is probably wrong, but it doesn't hurt to give different answers.

It seemed sports were well and trul covered so Patroclus tried to think of something else!

"Patroclus Hudson, Fourth Year Lion Sir," he grinned, "Muggle could use them at Sideshows at Circuses, the one where you have to try and knock the pins........Oh yeah that would be a bowling pin. Welll, "the boy had ruined his own answer, "They look kinda like a policeman's baton, the ones they use in Riot situations!"
There that would do!

They're going to learn Sports?and most of all Muggle Sports??

Aww..This is going to be interesting. Freya always loves sports. Some of the students said about baseball.Huh?What's baseball? She didn't know anything about muggle sport so she just stayed quite until the Professor explained to the class what sport will they learn today. Oh..She definitely couldn't wait to learn this sport.

Kurumi found is very amusing that she ended up learning about Quidditch during Muggle Studies. Then again, for everyone else around her, Quidditch was the familar whereas muggle sports were not.

Were they really going to play baseball?! Kurumi had only played catch with her brothers when she was younger - although they had taught her how to pitch a pretty mean fast ball and a wicked curve ball, but it would be a nice escape from everything wizardy to take part in something from her world. "Professor, are we going to play baseball?" she asked hoping the answer was yes. "If we are, I can be a pitcher or catcher."

GAHHHHH!!! NOT MUGGLE SPORTS! Adeline just sat there and sighed. Awhhhh. Why the heck was she taking this class when most of her friends at home were muggles?!?!?!

Aiden leaned back in his seat, watching as Professor Zookara twirled the beater's bat around a bit and asked them questions about quidditch. He looked out the window and sighed. Too bad they weren't playing quidditch for class. But his attention returned to the teacher when he asked what a muggle would be doing with the bat. Baseball, of course. Or maybe even for defense at times. "Yeah, I'd think they'd just play baseball with it. Usually, at least," he said, in agreement with a few of his peers.

Ehhh.

What would muggles use a beaters bat for? Destiny had no idea since she and muggle things rarely got along. Like during the summer, when the muggle box tried to EAT her and Evelyn. Yeah..why was she taking this class again?

She had no idea.

Finally thinking of something that muggles could use the bat for, she raised her hand hiiiiigh, "Destiny Shepard, Professor. And muggles could use that bat," the bat that she secretly hoped clobbered the man in the head, "to crack walnuts!"

Like the muggle hammer thing.

"Good morning, Sir", she smiled sweetly,"sorry for being so rude.I am just all excited about this lesson."
Oh yeah introduce yourself,Feenella.
"I am Feenella Schwarzberg,Slytherin."



They were going to learn sports?Muggle sports? UH NO !
Fee was sooo bad at sports, except it was Quidditch.
Ah glitter, noooo...

Taylor sauntered into the classroom- "So sorry i'm slightly late." she exclaimed, smiling her pearly teeth smile at the teacher. She took a seat near Fee and put her LV on the floor, she straightened out her skirt and ruffled up her blonde curls.

They were doing muggle sports? Ohhh, Sarah liked those. She never participated in them very much, but she was an avid watcher. Scribbling down a quick note, she sketched a beaters bat and listed some of the things people said it could be used for. There wasn't really much point in her saying anything, everything she could think of had already been said.

Baseballll. Scribble

Before he had the chance to react to anybody who had raised their hand to answer his question, the classroom door opened to reveal a young girl. A young girl who was MAJORLY late. Without a word at first, Jeremy's gaze followed the girl as she took a seat next to another girl.

"5 points from-" His eyes flickered towards the girl's robes for a moment to make out her house. "-Slytherin for tardiness." As much as he disliked taking points, he would absolutely not tolerate arriving late for class and interrupting his lesson. Now, back to the lesson...



Now, this was going to be interesting. Jeremy moved his gaze towards one of the unhappy teenage girls as he noticed one of them raising her hand. He almost said 'Yes?' when she paused for a moment before saying...Muggles could crack walnuts with it? She wasn't serious, was she?!

Though, something made him think she was. "Well, thanks for that creative input, Destiny." He almost turned back towards the class to resume his lesson when he thought of something. Something which made him smirk a little. "Though, on second thought, maybe you're right." And with that he fished a walnut out of his pocket (no, don't ask why he had one in the first place). "Would you like to try that?" He asked the Slytherin girl with an innocent smile as he placed the walnut on the floor at a (hopefully) safe distance of him and the rest of the class.


As he waited for Destiny to either agree to try or refuse Jeremy - still on the other side of his desk, as far away from the walnut as possible - turned to face the class again. "Now, in the meantime...I think we've by now all agreed that this lesson will NOT be about hitting somebody or vandalizing but rather about Baseball. Like in most games, there are two opposing teams. Can anybody tell what they are called?" He asked, his eyes flickering over to Destiny to make sure she wasn't sneaking up on him with the bat see how she had decided.

"The Boston Red Soxs?" she asked, having no clue wha that meant, but just answered cause she was a good girl

They were doing baseball then? Coolio.

Grinning as she actually noted that down as well, Sarah's ears perked up at the next question. Opposing teams? Ummm.

"Sarah Griffin, sir, Hufflepuff. Head Girl," yes she thought it best to say that anyway, even though they had met the week before. "Do you mean the batting team, and the fielding team?" Or was there some mystery to it she didn't know?

Sports ? Not her favourite thing in the world but nonetheless Callie's hand shot in the air. She was a muggleborn, therefore Muggle studies was her new favourite lesson so yeah she was aloud to be enthusiatic, no ? She opened her mouth and confidently said "Would that be the feilding team and the batting team. Or the home and away team ?"Now wouldn't it be embarresing if she was wrong. *erm face*

Oh, woooooops.
"Sorry, sir. It's Ella Ainsworth." She said with a smile, in response to her rubbish non-existent listening skills. Hitting balls, right. Ella listened to the other students and a few sports were being said. Baseball. Hmmm. She really had no idea.

"Would it be... one team hitting, and one team.. catching?" Sounded like a pretty boring game. But there may be some exciting twist to the game? Hm.

Trying hard not to laugh Jeremy just grinned at the girl who had answered for a moment before saying, "Okay, I'm sorry, let me rephrase my question. I don't want you to tell me about the individual Baseball teams there are." He really wanted to know why the girl had mentioned the Boston Red Soxs, though. "There is a specific term for the two opposing teams, however, the teams take turns in representing that term throughout the match." Okay, had he just confused them even more? Probably. He rubbed the back of his neck with a slightly crooked grin on his lips, trying to think of a way to re-phrase his question so that it actually made sense.

...or maybe there was no need for that after all. The Head Girl seemed to have understood his confusing question. "Yes, thank you, Sarah. I was talking about the Batting Team and the Fielding Team." How come he had missed the Head Girl before anyhow? O_o Had she been hiding? Okay, probably not. He had been too occupied with remembering the names of all the people currently in his classroom, probably.

And more people who knew the answer. Or almost anyhow. "Yes, I was talking about the Batting and the Fielding Team, Miss...?" He raised an eyebrow in the direction of the first Slytherin girl who had spoken up (Callie). Then he turned his attention back to another girl from the same house. "Correct, Ella. Though, we call them the Fielding Team - which would be the 'catching' team - and the Batting Team - which would be the ones 'hitting'." He gave her a friendly wink.

Okay, another 'easy question' before he started explaining how Baseball was played in more detail. "Anybody know how many players there are per team? Without the substitute players." Obviously.

Daisy breathed a sigh of reliefe. No clowns. Thank you. Baseball, her first guess obviously. Not to self trust instincts. The two names of the teams? "There are nine players per team." Daisy said her hand raised high.

Alice smiled at Professor Zookara as he seemed pleased with her answer. Alice was also picking up that he was confused why she was embarrassed. She hadn't really been very concerned that he had mentioned it to the class, or at least she was a little, but that changed after the looks she received from just about everyone in the class. Alice hated sticking out like a sore thumb.


Alice raised her hand gently. "In baseball there is a batting team, who is in the scoring position really, and then there's the other team which is in the field. The team batting is trying to hit the baseball far away enough from the team in the field so that they can run through as many bases as possible, ultimately trying to get through all of them so they can get a run. The team in the field is trying to stop the batting team from getting to the three different bases...well I guess four if you count the base you stand next to when you bat..." Alice stopped...perhaps that was a bit more detail than he had wanted.

So turns out watching tv programmes James wanted to watch, i.e baseball and football, came in handy sometimes. Hence muggle studies. "Callie, Callie Parker." she said as the professor asked her name, or so she thought he was talking to her. Lets hope he was. "And theres nine players on a baseball team..I think." she should really start listening to James more often. Seemed to come in handy.

Destiny rolled her eyes. What did this guy mean by her maybe being right? She KNEW she was right about this. How else were the muggles supposed to crack walnuts? Use their hands? Yeah right! She'd like to see that happen. She rolled her eyes once more at the very thought. Pffft.

Watching his every move, because he seemed like a shifty fellow, her eyes widened when he dug in his pocket and pulled out a walnut. An actual walnut! What..why was he walking around with a walnut in his pocket? She opened her mouth to ask but thought it best not to. It could have been personal reasons and she really didn't want to know anymore of the Professor's business. Hearing about Lafay was enough for a lifetime.

Hehe.

He was going to let her crack the walnut. Nodding her head, she skipped made her way to the front of the class and held her hand out waiting for him to hand over the beater's bat. "The walnut isn't enchanted to bite me is it?"

For the safety of his head, it better not be.

Hehe, she'd got it right. But why was the teacher giving her a weird look? He seemed....confused that she had spoken up. Had he not seen her before, or something? Gasp! Invisible!Sarah. There was a thought.

Grinning at him, she stuck her hand up again to answer the next question. "That would be nine, sir." Yes, she loved sports.

Okay. So... Ellie knew none of this. She had heard of baseball.... but didn't know ANY of these specifics. All she knew was that it was a flightless, American sport. How much fun could it be then?

But, she pretended to be interested as everyone else answered.

Leilani tried not to giggle as the proffesor sent her a wink. My, he was good looking now wasn't he? Hehe.

Awww... they weren't gonna get to hit stuff?! Dang. Hitting stuff was fun. Oooh, but he'd winked at her *giggle* Crap. Ah, well she could tell Carley how good looking he was-- she would most deffinitely want to know. Mabey she'd inherited the guy-obsessed thing from her?

"9 sir, isn't it?" Lani asked, turning her attention back to the front. Yes, nine... Right, yeah, that sounded right.