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There is nothing in Muggle Studies Classroom which would make it look different from any other classroom. There is not even anything special on the teacher's desk which might indicate what today's lesson was going to be about. Nothing. Just Professor Zookara sitting at his desk, turning a piece of chalk in his hands absently, waiting for the first students to arrive.
Not even the professor's facial expression gives away any hints to help you figure out today's topic. It is neither particularly excited, nor openly annoyed. It is just rather...indifferent. Indifferent, yet friendly and welcoming.
OOC: Class has now officially started, so please no late arrivals, no chatting and make sure you're familiar with the Classroom Rules. If you haven't posted your character arriving, you can just pretend like they have been there all along. ^__^
What did his family have to do with anything? Dallin frowned, thinking about the question. "Well, I'm not really sure. But I assume that somewhere down the line, I have a grandparent that 's a witch or wizard." He had never really cared enough to really find out. If he was a wizard, then what did it matter where he got it from? It reminded him of the conversation he had with that girl, about magic maybe being a recessive gene. Hm.
His eyebrows scrunched together as he listened to her. "There's a lot of ways that muggles could find out about the wizarding world. For example, my family didn't find out until my sisters got their acceptance letter for school. But let's say a muggle marries a wizard; the wizard might tell the muggle that he's a wizard." he shrugged. It was possible. He bit his lip as she talked about a pact, and shrugged. Yeah, it was possible.
At her question, Dallin nodded vigorously, agreeing. "Exactly. Why can't we live together? There's so much we could help them with, if they knew we existed. I guess we could even help them if they didn't know we existed." Huh. Anyway, he was off topic.
Aaand once again, he had to comment. Yes, he had a problem with keeping his mouth shut, even when he wasn't part of the conversation. But he had an opinion, and he wanted to share it.
"Having muggleborns in Muggle Studies is no different than say, having a pureblood in Care of Magical Creatures." Right? At least the way he looked at it. "Muggleborns might know about muggle things, but a pureblood wizard could have a magical creature as a pet." Aaaand he'd shut up now.
"Well in that case the thing with the pact would make sense",the blonde nodded,"oooooorrr wizard married muggle but it didnt carry on like that."There were sooo many possible waas of muggles finding out that there was a magical world.The statute was actually for no use looking at some muggle families. But seriously,did they really need that statute?!Nope.
"Ohhh waiiit",the second year exclaimed,"your parens didnt know until your sisters got the letter? So what if you and your sisters kinda have the gene for magic? I dont know if there is one but i read about that the possibility of having some magical about is different from muggle to muggle."The gene thing would explain that aaaand it would explain why some muggles knew and some didnt.Thinking about the muggle marries wizard thing Fee totally agreed with Dallin.That was very possible and happend quite often."I am sure the magical part in the relationship would tell because it would come out anyway."So they already had three possible ways. Mhhh....
"Riiight thats so true",the blonde nodded," and i am surenthere are things the muggles could teach us too."Serious, those muggles were geniuses.How would they be able to survuive without magic otherwise?!
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AHA!
They clearly wanted to get off the subject because THEY HAD COOOOOOOOOTIES!
Jake looked over at them and held back the childish responses he wanted to say (like 'YOU are a cootie' and 'YOU don't exist'). But managed not to. "Some people live sheltered lives. I would prefer to hear about this disease thing."
DUHHH.
He looked at Zookara, shielded his mouth and mouthed the word, 'Cooties?'
They had them, yes?
Keefer leaned over to Jake and whispered in his ear. "Seriously, they don't exist. Don't worry about it. They are something Muggle children make up when they think the other gender is gross. But just in case..."
Keefer leaned over and took hold of Jake's hand. Quill in hand, he drew a circle on the back of his hand and put a dot in the middle. "There, that's a cootie shot." Hopefully Jake would understand how ridiculous they were now. And if Keefer thought something was ridiculous to believe, it must be.
Keefer leaned over to Jake and whispered in his ear. "Seriously, they don't exist. Don't worry about it. They are something Muggle children make up when they think the other gender is gross. But just in case..."
Keefer leaned over and took hold of Jake's hand. Quill in hand, he drew a circle on the back of his hand and put a dot in the middle. "There, that's a cootie shot." Hopefully Jake would understand how ridiculous they were now. And if Keefer thought something was ridiculous to believe, it must be.
Jake was doubtful. Neptune had mentioned cooties and he was highly inclined to believe her.
But.
And there WAS a but.
He now had a shot. A non-painful one.
"Thanks, kid," he replied with a grin. Wow, you really did learn a lot in muggle studies.
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Ellie quickly recovered from her laugh but then noticed the Head Girl staring her down. Pff, huh. Who snorted?! How ruuuude.... Ellie looked around herself and behind her as if the girl was looking for someone else. Although she knew she was looking at her. She held her hands up and shrugged. "I dunno." She muttered. liiiaaaaar. teheh.
*Staaaare*
The Head Girl decided to shrug off the younger kids snorting before retaliating with a small comment. "S'not MY fault I was bought up entirely pureblooded" she mumbled under her breath, frowning to herself. And some people wouldn't TELL her what it was, so she HAD to ask, naturally.
SPOILER!!: Freddddiiee <33
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Freddie was so aware of Trixie looking at him and if he knew her at all, she had her lip between her teeth and was looking worried. He deliberately didn't look at her, mainly for his own benefit than hers. How did you reassure someone that you didn't need reassurance? He was actually finding the lesson interesting so far.
It wasn't like the straight faced Freddie to laugh, but Trixie's question had been so unexpected.. and had become almost something of an inside joke to Freds. He did glance at her this time to find her glaring at him. He shrugged, smirking a little. “Zookara seems more articulate than me. He'll be able to explain it a lot better than I can.” He replied, leaning towards her to whisper. His eyes glinted and he nodded once in response to her question. “If you'll let me.”
Hearing the accusation from beside him over his comments to the professor, he frowned at the Head Girl. He had NOT said that. “No.” He said simply, his jaw clenching as it became apparent she wanted everyone around them to hear. “All I'm saying is magic is no longer a necessity to our survival. We've found other means to the same result. We evolved to live on land: we lost our gills.. we've lost our tails because they became pointless to our needs.” He shrugged. “Why keep something that is no longer surplus to requirements.” Yeah.. it was controversial and it was JUST theory, but it was possible.. right? Freddie really didn't believe he was better than anyone here – surely Trixie of all people knew that.
The fact he wasn't looking at her made it quite clear that he didn't want her reassurance, or help. In fact it was more likely that she would need HIS help this lesson, he knew FAR more than Trixie knew about Muggles. He would probably be the one to help HER get an O in this subject. So the Slytherin gave up giving him the sympathetic look and turned back to the front.
It wasn't THAT funny. The seventeen year old pouted at his laughs, in her mind that was a perfectly reasonable question, there was some random place somewhere, or maybe it was a something, that consisted of sea, and a World and the Blonde wanted to know what exactly it was. "But he probably won't answer my question, everyone else seems too busy talking about cooties and muggles" she whispered back, giving him the puppy dog eyes. In other words, he would be explaining that to her later. Yep. If she'd let him? "Ive been looking forward to it ever since you mentioned it, of COURSE i'd let you" she smiled back.
Her eyes flickered back over to Freddie, noticing the clenched jaw and backing off a bit. His comment HAD been a little offensive if you took it the wrong way, which she could of. If she hadn't 'liked him' then she might have continued on with the debate, but she didn't want to get into an argument with him at all. "So your saying we're less developed then Muggles are? Not special at all?" she asked, narrowing her eyes a fraction but leaning back in her chair.
SPOILER!!: Ellaaaa
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Ella didn't feel the need to raise her hand and say her name to the professor. She guessed that he would remember her from her epic battle with Savannah last year, that he broke up. She raised an eyebrow at him. There was an emphasis on muggles this term? Huh... she hadn't even noticed it, to be honest.
For a moment or two, she listened to all of the other students ask their questions. She heard the word 'cooties' being thrown around here and there, but she really had no idea what that was. Maybe that was something that they needed to learn about, then. Cooties and it's uses. Actually, every single question that she heard sounded a bit interesting. She did somewhat like muggle studies, due to it's interesting nature.
Ehh, she didn't have a particular question, but she had more of a query. "I was only wandering why muggle-borns are allowed to join this lesson." And she really didn't mean any offence by that, "it's just, they have an advantage over everybody else because they already know about muggles." Basically, they would all get 'Os' in there exams when everyone else would be studying their butts off.
*STAAAAAARE*
Why were the Muggleborns here? Trixie couldn't help but stare (once again) at her cousin as the comment was made. "BECAUSE, they may find it interesting to see what the lesson is about. AND they could be helpful to us Purebloods who don't ACTUALLY know anything." Yes she was defending Freddie there.
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Originally Posted by Zoerawrr
AHA!
They clearly wanted to get off the subject because THEY HAD COOOOOOOOOTIES!
Jake looked over at them and held back the childish responses he wanted to say (like 'YOU are a cootie' and 'YOU don't exist'). But managed not to. "Some people live sheltered lives. I would prefer to hear about this disease thing."
DUHHH.
He looked at Zookara, shielded his mouth and mouthed the word, 'Cooties?'
They had them, yes?
Ellie skeptically raised her eyebrows at the older boy and tried her best not to tell him that he was acting like a five year old. She set her head in her hands and muttered. "There is no disease." It was barely inaudible. The statement was more for keeping herself sane.
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*Staaaare*
The Head Girl decided to shrug off the younger kids snorting before retaliating with a small comment. "S'not MY fault I was bought up entirely pureblooded" she mumbled under her breath, frowning to herself. And some people wouldn't TELL her what it was, so she HAD to ask, naturally.
Then the Slytherin girl mumbled something back at Ellie. "Hey, I didn't say it was your fault. Obviously the things I think are funny are different to you. Honest opinion." She stated simply. No one needed to get angry now...
Alice waited for this day for long time. She couldn't wait to take Muggle Studies! As Alice listened to her classmates share their thoughts to the class it had made her think about those questions. Why do Muggles not want to believe in magic? That was probably the most common question any wizard or witch wanted to know. What did she want to learn about Muggles that she didn't know before?
Belle noticed Alice in the class and she smiled and waved to her.
Belle noticed Alice in the class and she smiled and waved to her.
From the corner of her right eye she had noticed Belle waving to her. Alice turned to face Belle then returned the friendly wave, she hadn't notice any of her friends when she had entered the classroom but it was like that for every class she attended. Alice was always too into the lesson and seems to never notice her friends.
Alice mouthed out Hello to her fellow friend and avoided getting into trouble since the professor had specifically said no talking.
Keefer leaned over to Jake and whispered in his ear. "Seriously, they don't exist. Don't worry about it. They are something Muggle children make up when they think the other gender is gross. But just in case..."
Keefer leaned over and took hold of Jake's hand. Quill in hand, he drew a circle on the back of his hand and put a dot in the middle. "There, that's a cootie shot." Hopefully Jake would understand how ridiculous they were now. And if Keefer thought something was ridiculous to believe, it must be.
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Originally Posted by Zoerawrr
Jake was doubtful. Neptune had mentioned cooties and he was highly inclined to believe her.
But.
And there WAS a but.
He now had a shot. A non-painful one.
"Thanks, kid," he replied with a grin. Wow, you really did learn a lot in muggle studies.
Spike was intrigued by these cooties. He totally wanted one to add to his collection of pets. Just how did you get hold of one? Something told him they didn't just live in the grass to be collected...
And then he overheard something totally SHOCKING. And awful.
"Thanks? Thanks?!" Spike looked at Jake and Keefer, dismayed. Whatever a cootie was, that boy...had just shot it! That was terrible. "You've just shot a cootie? A poor ickle cootie. I could have looked after it as a pet...but no, you SHOT it." His bottom lip began to wibble, and he shook he head sadly. "With a quill. Like target practice. That's just not right..."
"Jaina Maloney, first year, and as a muggleborn, I kinda feel that those that are from the wizarding world kinda dominate in the other classes," she stated as matter of factly as she could. "I mean honestly, we don't know anything about the wizarding world so are kinda left out when it comes to History of Magic and other subjects. We don't get the same bedtime stories as you. So we may have the edge on ONE class. God forbid!" she said sarcastically. I mean SERIOUSLY?!?! Besides, some of these muggleborns may not have been allowed out of the house a lot because of their magical ability, like her. She knew Belle and Alice would have her back on this one.
"And no, seriously, there are no such thing as cooties. It's a made up disease that 8 yr olds believe the opposite sex has." She rolled her eyes. This was going to be a LONG class!
Violet was sitting next to Selina in the class that she had been freaking out about since the train: Muggle Studies. Now it wasn't that she didn't like the subject, NO, it was more along the lines that she didn't understand it at all. And on top of that she was even more afraid that she would be failing in this class. She never thought that there was going to be a class that she wouldn't like. But what also confused Violet was how Elektra and so many other muggles could just so easily go about their lives without using magic, it was just mind boggling. When the professor allowed the students to ask questions and she heard Selina ask her question, Violet immediately knew what she was going along the lines of. One word and one person who was always being questioned: Gervik. Violet looked from Selina to the Professor waiting to hear his answer to her question.
Selina saw Violwy looking at her with a knowing look. She knew that Violet was not particularly pleased with her question. Her obsession with Gervik was getting worse. Violet and Elektra knew it, but Selina's ignorance was vast. She craved answers to the point of a problem.
She leaned over to Violet and whispered, "What are you so upset about? I'm just curious..."
JP was now getting slightly worried. His best friend and cousin was a muggle. If there was something going on in the muggle world he needed to know what.
"Professor, although a great deal of us have already asked this question. Is there something wrong in the muggle world that we should know about? Is there danger in the muggle world or something? Also, I still don't quite understand why the people in the photos muggles take are stationary. "
"Jaina Maloney, first year, and as a muggleborn, I kinda feel that those that are from the wizarding world kinda dominate in the other classes," she stated as matter of factly as she could. "I mean honestly, we don't know anything about the wizarding world so are kinda left out when it comes to History of Magic and other subjects. We don't get the same bedtime stories as you. So we may have the edge on ONE class. God forbid!" she said sarcastically. I mean SERIOUSLY?!?! Besides, some of these muggleborns may not have been allowed out of the house a lot because of their magical ability, like her. She knew Belle and Alice would have her back on this one.
"And no, seriously, there are no such thing as cooties. It's a made up disease that 8 yr olds believe the opposite sex has." She rolled her eyes. This was going to be a LONG class!
Rowan sat quietly listening when one girl especially caught her attention. Although Rowan was half blood, she had grown up in the muggle world. She nodded her head in agreement with what the girl said. Muggles could be down right mean to those with magical abilities.
"Jaina Maloney, first year, and as a muggleborn, I kinda feel that those that are from the wizarding world kinda dominate in the other classes," she stated as matter of factly as she could. "I mean honestly, we don't know anything about the wizarding world so are kinda left out when it comes to History of Magic and other subjects. We don't get the same bedtime stories as you. So we may have the edge on ONE class. God forbid!" she said sarcastically. I mean SERIOUSLY?!?! Besides, some of these muggleborns may not have been allowed out of the house a lot because of their magical ability, like her. She knew Belle and Alice would have her back on this one.
"And no, seriously, there are no such thing as cooties. It's a made up disease that 8 yr olds believe the opposite sex has." She rolled her eyes. This was going to be a LONG class!
Belle noticed Jania and was proud of her. She didn't talk like the class rule said but she clapped her hands for her. She gave her a wink and mouthed "Good one! And i agree!" she nodded vigourisly.
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From the corner of her right eye she had noticed Belle waving to her. Alice turned to face Belle then returned the friendly wave, she hadn't notice any of her friends when she had entered the classroom but it was like that for every class she attended. Alice was always too into the lesson and seems to never notice her friends.
Alice mouthed out Hello to her fellow friend and avoided getting into trouble since the professor had specifically said no talking.
Belle was glad Alice noticed her and now she didn't feel so lonely. She was glad she had Jania and Alice in the class. "Could it be a fun class?" Belle wondered.
The fact he wasn't looking at her made it quite clear that he didn't want her reassurance, or help. In fact it was more likely that she would need HIS help this lesson, he knew FAR more than Trixie knew about Muggles. He would probably be the one to help HER get an O in this subject. So the Slytherin gave up giving him the sympathetic look and turned back to the front.
It wasn't THAT funny. The seventeen year old pouted at his laughs, in her mind that was a perfectly reasonable question, there was some random place somewhere, or maybe it was a something, that consisted of sea, and a World and the Blonde wanted to know what exactly it was. "But he probably won't answer my question, everyone else seems too busy talking about cooties and muggles" she whispered back, giving him the puppy dog eyes. In other words, he would be explaining that to her later. Yep. If she'd let him? "Ive been looking forward to it ever since you mentioned it, of COURSE i'd let you" she smiled back.
Her eyes flickered back over to Freddie, noticing the clenched jaw and backing off a bit. His comment HAD been a little offensive if you took it the wrong way, which she could of. If she hadn't 'liked him' then she might have continued on with the debate, but she didn't want to get into an argument with him at all. "So your saying we're less developed then Muggles are? Not special at all?" she asked, narrowing her eyes a fraction but leaning back in her chair.
When you thought about it, the name Seaworld conjured up all kinds of weird and wonderful ideas. Freddie had a small inkling that Trixie was going to be highly disappointed when she found out what it really was. He turned and looked at the blonde as she spoke, his eyes flicking over to Professor Zookara and back again. “Then maybe he'll ignore the cootie stuff and answer you. It seems a much more valid question to me.” He winked and looked away, ignoring the blatant puppy dog eyes to get him to cave. Yeah, he'd tell her later if Zookara didn't, but it could wait until after class. He smiled slighly at her next words, still not looking at her but at the kids who were still bickering over the existence of cooties.
Less developed? He pondered this for a second and then nodded slowly. “Yeah. If you look at things in terms of evolution. It's not necessarily a bad thing though.” He assured her with a shrug. “You realise what muggles would give to have even a fraction of the power we have?” Yeah. And that was a round about admission from Freddie that he was beginning to quite like the idea of being a wizard.
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Ehh, she didn't have a particular question, but she had more of a query. "I was only wandering why muggle-borns are allowed to join this lesson." And she really didn't mean any offence by that, "it's just, they have an advantage over everybody else because they already know about muggles." Basically, they would all get 'Os' in there exams when everyone else would be studying their butts off.
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*STAAAAAARE*
Why were the Muggleborns here? Trixie couldn't help but stare (once again) at her cousin as the comment was made. "BECAUSE, they may find it interesting to see what the lesson is about. AND they could be helpful to us Purebloods who don't ACTUALLY know anything." Yes she was defending Freddie there.
The discussion then turned to something that made Freddie feel rather uncomfortable. He shifted in his seat a bit and looked at the brunette who was questioning why muggleborns should be allowed in this class. He frowned as it went back and forth with other kids who were protesting and then, to his surprise, Trixie got involved. He chewed his cheek nervously, then, once again, spoke up. “But don't the kids of magical parents have a distinct advantage in all other classes?” He asked levelly. “Kicking us out because we happen to have been brought up another way is segregation. It'd create a manufactured divide – 'them' and 'us'. Surely having a mix is beneficial to all of us. As Trixie pointed out, we can help out where needed. I'd like to think that the favour would be returned in say, Charms or Transfiguration.” He glanced once again at the blonde beside him and give her a small smile for fighting his corner on this.
Jamie sighed. All these questions. She looked around the room and felt like she could just die. She pulled out some more parchment and started to doodle again. What else was there to do?
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OOC: Sorry, I was sick. Back(ish) now. *waves at you all* You can still react to the Q&A part below.
Text Cut: Questions & Answers
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Kurumi put down her quill and sat back in her seat. Did she have any questions? Her head was filled with them at the moment, but she would rather sit and listen to the others discuss things at the moment. The topic of non-magical and wizarding world was a little too sensitive for her at the moment. She had been crying in the Professor's office the other day about her relationship with her mother after all.
On his way over to where Lexi was raising her hand, his gaze passed Kurumi who looked sort of...uncomfortable with the whole topic. Of course she would. And exactly that made him feel really bad about having to bring it up in the first place.
With a genuine sympathetic smile for the Gryffindor, Jeremy finally moved on to call on the other students who were raising their hands.
Text Cut: The cooties-discussion
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Lexi immediately raised her hand and smiled at the Professor. "Sir, can you tell me if MUGGLE boys have cooties also? I think we KNOW that wizarding boys do... but do muggles have a different kind? Like a NON magical variety of cooties?" she asked with an air of seriousness about her. Zookara KNEW about the magical cooties! HE KNEW!!
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What the heck is Lexi saying??!?
"Not all Wizarding boys have cooties!" he blurted out defensively, trying to keep that panic from showing on his face. "Muggle-kind, Magical-kind or whatever-kind. And as for Muggle boys...." dang, he's half-blood so that kinda applies on him too "I'm pretty sure a lot of them are cooties free too." Nods firmly.
Oh and he has another question "Professor, wouldnt you say that girls can be affected by cooties too, muggle-kind or otherwise?"
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For the girl who mentioned cooties, Freds couldn't help an inward wry smile. Some things were exactly the same. He leaned forward in his chair and eyed the younger student. “We're all human. Don't we share the same illness and disease?" He replied completely deadpan. "Cooties exists.. but it's more rampant among females in the muggle world.” He winked at her and sat back, a small smirk in place on his face as another boy protested. Weren't they.. a little old for that?
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ANYWAY.
"Professor," no DOUBTS he remembered her. Giggle. "Can I answer Salander's question? Because EVERYONE knows that cooties originate in males. If a girl has them, it's only because some boy has passed them on to her. And I'm pretty sure by 14 or so we've all outgrown cooties." Honestly. HONESTLY Lexi. Neptune so gave her a look.
What was this class about again? She really only came to sit with Jake and stare at Professor Z. Prettiest. Man. At. Hogwarts. If HE had cooties... sign this Bott up! Mental!giggles!
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Oh no, another boys-have-cooties supporter "N-No way! Miss uhm...." Runes girl. Jakey's friend. Jimmy's.... whatever. "...I'd respectfully disagree. Like Freddie there said, girls have it more often from sharing hairbrushes and other... uh personal stuff then pass it off to guys when they're with them." then added quietly "... and you dont outgrow cooties they just take on another disgusting form when you're older." *shudders*
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NepTOOOOOOOOOOOOON.
She was like... THERE. Jake liked that.
But then his eyes widened slightly in fear and he looked at Neptune, all seriously serious. "Do I have cooties?"
He was worried.
Was this a new strain of deadly flu that only boys could carry? Was he ENDANGERING Neptune?! "Am I endangering you?!"
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"'s Spike," he said, raising his hand. "Can you keep these cooties as pets?"
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...
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"Dudes."
Really?
"C'mon... this cootie thing sounds dangerous," Jake said worriedly, looking to Zookara. WERE they dangerous? TELL US, OH WISE ONE.
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Ellie sighed and faaacepaaalmed. Really. "Honestly guys? No one has cooties..." She mumbled. Seriously, that was like, an eight-year-old thing that girls did. Running around the playground away from the boys because they supposedly all had cooties. I thought we grew up? Ellie sighed again. She had a headache.
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Emily snapped out of her stupor. Were people still talking about cooties?... what on earth had the world come to. "Cooties, don't exist", she said irritably... "Now can we please move onto something worthwhile discussing?" she asked.
Personally she didn't care what anyone thought of her little outburst, and she could tell she wasn't the only one that had had enough of 'cooties'. Quite frankly the class was shaping up to be a disappointment. She hoped the Porfessor would interveine shortly.
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AHA!
They clearly wanted to get off the subject because THEY HAD COOOOOOOOOTIES!
Jake looked over at them and held back the childish responses he wanted to say (like 'YOU are a cootie' and 'YOU don't exist'). But managed not to. "Some people live sheltered lives. I would prefer to hear about this disease thing."
DUHHH.
He looked at Zookara, shielded his mouth and mouthed the word, 'Cooties?'
They had them, yes?
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Keefer leaned over to Jake and whispered in his ear. "Seriously, they don't exist. Don't worry about it. They are something Muggle children make up when they think the other gender is gross. But just in case..."
Keefer leaned over and took hold of Jake's hand. Quill in hand, he drew a circle on the back of his hand and put a dot in the middle. "There, that's a cootie shot." Hopefully Jake would understand how ridiculous they were now. And if Keefer thought something was ridiculous to believe, it must be.
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Originally Posted by Zoerawrr
Jake was doubtful. Neptune had mentioned cooties and he was highly inclined to believe her.
But.
And there WAS a but.
He now had a shot. A non-painful one.
"Thanks, kid," he replied with a grin. Wow, you really did learn a lot in muggle studies.
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Originally Posted by hermygirl
Spike was intrigued by these cooties. He totally wanted one to add to his collection of pets. Just how did you get hold of one? Something told him they didn't just live in the grass to be collected...
And then he overheard something totally SHOCKING. And awful.
"Thanks? Thanks?!" Spike looked at Jake and Keefer, dismayed. Whatever a cootie was, that boy...had just shot it! That was terrible. "You've just shot a cootie? A poor ickle cootie. I could have looked after it as a pet...but no, you SHOT it." His bottom lip began to wibble, and he shook he head sadly. "With a quill. Like target practice. That's just not right..."
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"And no, seriously, there are no such thing as cooties. It's a made up disease that 8 yr olds believe the opposite sex has." She rolled her eyes. This was going to be a LONG class![/COLOR]
Oh. Wow. Lexi couldn't be serious about this...could she? After a few seconds of trying to keep the grin from breaking through, he had to realized that it was a lost battle. It just was too funny. "Would you like me to give you a cootie shot?" Jeremy teased lightly but before he could change the subject...
...all hell broke lose. Not really, but more and more people started to join the cootie discussion. Jeremy could only watch helplessly, still amused nonetheless, pushing himself up on the desk to sit on its top. "Guys, there are no-" But it was useless. They were too engrossed in deciding whether males or females were more likely to have cooties. This. Was. Crazy.
There was even a little boy who thought they were living things he could keep as pets. Erm. Moving up to Jake, Keefer and the little boy (Spike) with a small smile his eyes fell on the 'cootie shot' on Jake's hand. Would they all be singing circle, circle, dot, dot together soon? "Okay, okay, there ARE no cooties." Then with a small apologetic smile at the little Ravenclaw he added, "Sorry."
Was this as bad as telling them there was no Santa Claus? Hopefully not.
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The seventh year raised her hand, taking in knowledge that she had just attended a few lessons years before Professor Jeremy came into Hogwarts to take the Muggle Studies placement. "Hello, I'm Annie, Anna Maria Robles..." She didn't really care how she was called, but it kind of scared her the fact that if called by her last name, she could be in trouble or worse.
"And about this emphasis on Muggles this year, I'd just like to say that, it's interesting, that well...without them knowing, we could help them a lot in their everyday lives, despite their many and weird technological advances, as they call them...but what about the Statute of Secrecy, and the long way of history we've known all of our lives to not interfere with the Muggles' lives, even though all this could happen anytime soon?" Yes, she was kind of confused, it was not a mess, but it was interesting to ask how could all that happen.
Still amused by the previous discussion, Annie's question brought them back to what he originally intended to comment on at the beginning of this lesson. Just comment. Not forcing his opinion on them or anything. "Yes, Annie, but it wouldn't be 'without them knowing'-" He quoted what she'd said at the beginning. "-would it?" Because they would know. Why think about abolishing the statute otherwise.
If they wouldn't know about it then who was he to object.
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She raised her hand. "Professor? Are muggles... in danger? Or something like that. I'm sure everyone noticed that we talk about muggles in every class," even Potions, "and we wouldn't talk about them if everything was okay. Or would we?" Anything else? Oh. "And my name is Helena Hopkins," she added, then let her hand fall back on her knees.
In danger? Jeremy simply regarded the girl for a moment, positively surprised at her concern. "No..." He finally answered slowly, dragging the word out to buy himself some time. This would be bad. "I mean, there's never certainty of anybody not being in danger but, I don't think this is the reason." Not danger as such, anyhow.
Or were they? Was Cooper in danger? His parents? His family?
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Without any hesitation, Jake raised his hand. "Name's Jake," he started quite simply. "And this isn't really a question, more an expressing of opinion. I just want to say I really hope we don't get onto the subject of the statute and the need for it, though I don't see how we could. Unless there is a way muggle studies can really touch on the topic of the statute? Considering muggle studies is... the study... of muggles."
Ba-ZING.
"Pointless statement. But like I say... I hope we do stay away from the statute."
Kids in this school had a knack for... heatedness.
"I guess I do have a question though. Is the statute going to change? Does it look that way?"
Jake hoped NOT.
He also wondered if/when Gevrik would show his face today...
Jake. He didn't know him but he looked old enough to be in the sixth year or something. Was he new? "We won't. Not here and now anyways." If they really wanted to discuss it there would be a time and place to do so, but not now. Not like that. It would get out of control.
Already about to move on to the next student, he moved his attention back to the Hufflepuff as it seemed he did have a question after all. "I can't tell you that. It might. It might not." He answered vaguely but truthfully before with a small smile, he added pointedly, "And I thought you didn't want to talk about the statute...?" And neither did he, to be honest.
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Her hand raised into the air before asking the question that had been bothering here for a while. "What is the meaning of this.. Sea World" she pronounced the word incredibly clearly as a a confused expression fell to the blondes face. It sounded like, another planet. Gosh that would be exciting wouldn't it?
Her hand lowered as she finished the question, smiling at the Professor first before turning to Freddie with a grin. There. That was all.
Another interesting and relevant question. Not. Jeremy couldn't help but simply stare at Trixie for a moment, clearly amused by her question. Had anybody told her to ask that? Where had that come from? "Sea World...well, there are a lot of aquariums there." There was probably some other word for it but he couldn't care less to be honest. "With loads of sea animals...and other stuff. It's a theme park."Shrug.
He did notice the grin Trixie gave the boy next to her, Freddie, and immediately suspected him to be involved in telling her about Sea World. Or not telling her actually.
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She raised her hand, "Professor, I'm Luinevaug Celebrindal, although I go by Luin. I have noticed it is odd that we are focused so much on muggles this quarter. Although I dont mind anything to do with muggles I didn't thing we would be focusing so much on them. It doesn't seem like we need to be involved with muggles for the most part in our lives. Although if there were ever a time where the international statute of wizarding secrecy were revoked then possibly it could be more relevant."
He simply nodded for a moment, trying to come up with a suitable reply. Though, there really wasn't much to say as the girl had only stated her opinion which he was of course going to accept. If he agreed with her or not. "Good point." As long as the focus was only on Muggles as such and not on a specific aspect or anything. He wasn't sure what the other professors taught in their lessons. Maybe it was just that.
Maybe it wasn't.
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"Do-" Alex started before cutting himself off. Manners now, Slytherin boy. He raised his hand and started over. "I'm Alexander Reed, but Alex really." he said, only his father called him Alexander when he was in trouble, and hopefully he wasn't in trouble there... "Just not 'Al'." he shuddered. Wait, what was going on? He should be asking his question right about now.
"Do you know what's going on with all the muggle-thingies, Prof? I mean Professor Zookara?" Geez, he sounded so intelligent. Very much so. He just had a lot of thoughts on his mind, it was hard to control them all at the same time he- oh lookit, a pencil! Shiny...
"Alex it is then." Jeremy said with a smile at the boy upon turning slightly to face him. "No, Al is my sister." It would be weird calling other people that...especially a boy. He didn't explain his statement further though but simply left it at that. It had made sense enough right?
Muggle-thingies? "I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you're talking about? What kind of Muggle thingies?" He purposefully used the same word the boy had used, amusement clearly obvious on his face.
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Raising her hand, she said, "Professor, the only issue I'm really having is that I'm a pure-blood witch who was raised strictly in a magical world. I've never really had much experience with muggles, so I feel in a way that I'm falling behind because I don't have much to offer in the classes," she said.
It was true. Some Gryffindor girl had even pointed out to her--in front of the whole class--that one of her answers in Transfiguration was wrong and couldn't be used. Blahh. "I'm also wondering if there's a reason muggles are being emphasized?" she added. "Oh, and my name's Sierra Greingoth." She probably should have said that first, right?
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Nika raised her hand. In all honesty she was very confused. They were going to a wizarding school right? So why learn about normal human beings? Nika is a muggle-born so she only had ideas of what they would learn about in Hogwarts, but none included learning about muggles. Besides the muggle studies class of course. "Hi, my name is Nika Adler," she said starting off. "I'm a muggleborn and I thought we were supposed to learn about magic here. And in all of my classes we have started off by talking about muggles. And i was just wondering why? I know you said there has been an emphasis on muggles this term,but why?" Nika smiled sweetly hoping that her question had been clear enough. She was less nervous than she was starting off in other classes because she has a muggle family so everything in this class should be a piece of cake! But yet she couldn't help feel slightly worried that her teacher wouldn't like her.
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She shook the thought and raised her hand, "Selina Skylar, first year Gryffindor, sir. Perhaps you could answer me this? Why are all of the teachers so intent on educating and even exploring this Statue? I have no opinion on it personally, but it strikes me as odd that it has been a very hot topic." She was no fool. They were hiding something.
The others were focussing so much on Muggles that Purebloods felt that they were falling behind?! That was just wrong. "Did you tell your professors that? They should be thinking about that." He normally wasn't one to tell others what to do but this was just wrong. No wonder they started to dislike the special emphasis on Muggles...though, maybe that was a good thing?
"There is, there is. It's part of the curriculum this term. And because there have been controversial opinions on the Statute." Jeremy replied vaguely with a smile directed at the young Slytherin, Sierra, and all the others who had asked about the why. This was all he could tell them for now.
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Keefer raised both hands, waiting to be called on. When Professor Zookara nodded, he said, "It's Keefer, Sir. And I've always wondered how those airplain and hellakopter things work, you know? Like, how can they stay up there?"
Jeremy couldn't help but smile slightly at the way the boy was waving about with both of his hands. "One hand is enough." He commented with a wink in Keefer's direction. "Oh, and...this isn't that easy. But I'll keep it in mind, okay, and I promise we WILL talk about it at some point." When he wasn't sure but he was going to keep his promise. Or try to anyhow.
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"My name is Chloe professor and I was wondering your thoughts on if maybe someday maybe wizard cures may be able to be used on muggles. I mean it's kinds sad that we just have to sit back and let human lives suffer because our statute", Chloe said matter of factly raising her hand trying her hardest not to get emotional.
Oh, he knew that one. Chloe had been there last term too. At least he was pretty sure she had been. And it was true. It would be amazing if there was a way to help them like that. "The statute isn't for the wizarding world but for the Muggles." Was all Jeremy said, too lost in his own thoughts to give a more detailed explanation.
There had to be a way...but something told him, this was not it.
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Emily raised her hand, "Emily Browne", she said before continuing, "I was just wondering whether this emphasis on muggles is going to be present for the rest of term as well? Its just as fascinating as it is... I feel as thought this shift in curriculum is... sort of... well forced and I'm not very comfortable with it. I'd like to get back to what comes naturally to me... to us... magic and more of an emphasis on our world. I don't have anything against muggles, it's just I was raised in the wizarding world and it's where I'm going to stay. So while this is all well and interesting I just fear it isn't as relevant to me as it might be to others."
Another one who was feeling uncomfortable about the special Muggle focus in all the lessons. "Well, Emily, I'm afraid that it will still be present throughout the rest of the term." Jeremy replied with a small nod, and a sigh. Unless, there was some major showdown of some sorts between some people of course.
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Salander had to smirk. Yes there have been such an emphasis on everything Muggle hasnt there? "Well Professor, are you getting any kind of special premium with all the Muggle-related lessons? Consultant's fee perhaps? I mean certainly you must be a valued resource regarding this." he asked with a crooked albeit good natured smile.
Ha. Salander never failed to amuse him, no matter what the conversation topic was. "No, unfortunately not. Unfair, isn't it?" Jeremy mused with a small grin which didn't quite reach his eyes. No, no special premium for him. Far from really.
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Raising her hand she said, "Um, Professor.. Since we have an emphasis on Muggles this term does that mean we'll be learning more about them? As in the way they live, etc.? Or will we be also learning about muggle objects like last term?" she asked as she lowered her hand.
"Oh! My bad.. I'm Dianna Malfoy." she added. She slapped herself lightly on the forehead for almost forgetting to tell her name.
Nodding at Dianna to show her she was allowed to speak up, Jeremy listened to what she had to say. Interesting. Were they more interested in their way of life of Muggles? Though, of course objects were directly linked to that. "I can only talk about my lessons of course. Yes, probably more on what you said, about their way of life and such." He agreed with a nod and a smile for the Slytherin.
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*Raising his hand Matty wanted to ask some many questions on why the topic of muggles seemed to be everywhere. But what if this was a trap or something?*
"Matthias Gardner... and why the sudden popularity in muggles and muggle care in most of our classes? And why is Mr. Gevrik here really? For security reasons we've been told but what security problems is he protecting us from?"
Since he had already sort of answered the first question, Jeremy concentrated on Matthias' other two. "Well, I can't tell you anything more than what Mr. Gevrik has told you. However, you might want to ask him yourself." Yes, go ask him!!!
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"Professor, many wizards and muggles believe their worlds are separate and isolated apart and that one can be ignorant of the other without consequence, is this true?" It wasn't that he didn't have an answer drawn up for himself, but rather that it seemed like it would be beneficial for a few students to remember that both worlds were deeply intertwined with one another, and being part of one was impossible without stepping foot into the other.
Folding his hands in his lap absently, Jeremy considered the boy's question for a moment. Ignorant? He would lose his job if that were true. "Isn't this-" He made a rather vague hand gesture, taking in the class and everybody within. "-proof enough that this isn't possible? We wouldn't have discussions like these. We wouldn't even have this class." Obviously.
After a small pause he added with a small slightly sad smile, "We're all the same. Only because some of us are able to do magic doesn't mean we're completely different or better than Muggles. We don't act differently, this isn't like comparing humans to animals. People tend to forget that." There was a hint of bitterness in his voice as he said the last sentence but he gave Sabel a smile.
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Fiddling with her badge with one hand, the Hufflepuff tentatively raised her other, "I think it's a good thing. Muggles are BIG," wide eyed, Wesley stretched out her arms to emphasize how big, "Not like - big as in tall, you know, or wide...well, some are, but big as in a BIG part of our lives. And they're people too, and they have feelings too, and they have a lot of great things to share too." Like Candyland.
"They're the other half of the story."
Ending with a little nod, the short sixth year scrunched back into her seat, feet sliding forward and chin nearing the table top. Wesley understood why the Statute was in place, of course. But she also knew how muggles could adapt to the knowledge when necessary, like Grandma and Grandpa Lawrence. If only they were allowed little, itty bitty spells to help, then surely - surely nothing bad could happen. It would be a like a wonderful, secret present that only they knew about. Why be able to perform magic if no one received any benefit from it?
When he let his gaze move on to the next person raising their hand, Jeremy's eyes fell on Wesley's new badge she was fiddling with. Oh, Prefect? Good for her, he was sure she would do well at that.
A genuine, fond smile on his lips he simply nodded slowly at first, trying to memorize her little speech. It was nice, it was perfect, it was to the point. "Well said, Wesley. Thank you."They're the other half of the story.
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"K..Konichwa, my name is Chisato and my question is how accurate is the portrayal of Muggles on the shows on the television?"
Shows on television?! Interesting question. "Well, it depends on what kind of television show you are referring to." Documentaries...dramas...comedies...etc. "There are a lot of exaggerations on TV, though." He ended his reply with a smile.
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She raised her hand in the air. "Professor? Mr Gevrik said he was here to help make a safe environment for us all. So does that mean we are gonna work with muggles or against them?"
What?! When had Gevrik said that? Probably at that meet-and-greet thing he had not been invited to. That's nice. Had they all been there? Apart from him. And Kimber. He wasn't sure who else had or had not been invited but yeah. "I'm pretty sure what Mr. Gevrik wants is not working against them." He simply stated, an unreadable expression on his face.
Whether that meant it would be good for the Muggles was still to be determined.
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" My name is Rex Trigwell" he told the professor. " I am pure muggle and made it to HogWarts on my grades" Rex said to the professor. "What I would like to knoee is what you or the class or the school officials or theeir ministry thinks about muggled like me in HogWarts?" Rex asked the professor.
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Jeremy just stared at the boy for a moment, trying to figure out what he was trying to say. He could only be talking about being Muggleborn, right? "You mean you're Muggleborn, with both of your parents being Muggles?" Anything else didn't exactly make much sense. At least he was pretty sure about that.
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Kyle had been sitting in the back of the room quietly, raising her hand before she spoke, "Kyle Manning I was wondering if we could well cover travel and the safety and lack there of in muggle means of traveling." She asked, her eyes big-blue-eyes showing nothing but her intent on learning. She wasn't an idiot she wanted to understand how safe it was or unsafe it was to fly over seas in a big metal thing.
Oh good idea. Clever Ravenclaw. "Yes, I'll keep that in mind. We can compare it to risks of magical kinds of traveling, like splinching and such." Jeremy agreed with a nod, already planning the lesson in his mind. This would be an interesting aspect to discuss and give them something to think about.
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"Professor, do all muggles find budding witches and wizards weird and crazy? Those.. people at my school do nothing but insult me, because everything unusual happens when I'm around.. But I'm sure every one of us has experienced that?" She asked politely.
Bullying. That was always a major topic, no matter where. "Certain people just can't accept that other people are different. They're afraid of different. No matter what sort of different." Yes, this was the main problem. Not whether the 'different' was magic or not. They would find something else. A different reason to insult others.
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She raised her hand, "Satine Farris, Sixth Year Ravvie, sir." she paused and then continued, "I'm listening to all of these questions and I have an odd idea sir. It seems that some people have turned muggles into almost mythical beings...would it be possible for us to...well I don't know...take a field trip to England or something so that those that haven't been around muggles will see that they aren't as crazy and clueless as some peeps think they are..." in her head she couldn't figure out any other way for these peeps to understand that muggles were just like them just without magic....I mean some of these questions were just ridiculous.
Of course. How could he forget Satine. Satine and her hair. You just COULDN'T forget her. What was she suggesting? A field trip. Into the Muggle world. To observe Muggles in their everyday life. "This sounds like a trip to the zoo." Jeremy muttered under his breath, more to himself than to anybody else.
"Maybe, I'll think about it, okay?" He replied with a sort of half-smile for the Ravenclaw before moving his attention back to the other students.
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He raised his hand. “Alfred.. er.. Freddie Broadmoor. ..Professor, I'd like to know your theory on WHY some of us are gifted magically and some of us aren't?" He asked softly, lowering his hand. If it's to do with evolution and magic has died out in some of us because it's not necessary to our existence as humans.. or whether some other forces are at work.”
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Freddie was talking more than she expected, but that was kinda expected, it was probably the perfect lesson for him. But his question, and comment, was kinda unexpected. Evolution? So was he saying that Muggles were better than they were. Her attention was drawn to the fact he was glancing at her. She looked back, a kinda confused frown on her face. What WAS that supposed to mean? "So Muggles are better now are they?" she mumbled under her breath, loud enough for people to hear however. If he was saying they didn't NEED the magical ability, it would appear that way.
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Then the boy's next question got him thinking "Professor, to follow-up on Freddie's question there... do you think us Wizards are actually the next step in human evolution?...."because he really doesnt want to think nature has slated him for extinction ".... you know the same way as cavemen eventually died out to be replaced by modern humans?"
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Hearing the accusation from beside him over his comments to the professor, he frowned at the Head Girl. He had NOT said that. “No.” He said simply, his jaw clenching as it became apparent she wanted everyone around them to hear. “All I'm saying is magic is no longer a necessity to our survival. We've found other means to the same result. We evolved to live on land: we lost our gills.. we've lost our tails because they became pointless to our needs.” He shrugged. “Why keep something that is no longer surplus to requirements.” Yeah.. it was controversial and it was JUST theory, but it was possible.. right? Freddie really didn't believe he was better than anyone here – surely Trixie of all people knew that.
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Emmaleigh frowned as she heard Salander's comment. She raised her hand, even though this comment was directed towards the boy, just as much as the professor. with a slight tinge of bitterness, she turned to the boy and asked."If that were so, what would it mean for squibs, especially those that come from a pureblood lineage?"
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Her eyes flickered back over to Freddie, noticing the clenched jaw and backing off a bit. His comment HAD been a little offensive if you took it the wrong way, which she could of. If she hadn't 'liked him' then she might have continued on with the debate, but she didn't want to get into an argument with him at all. "So your saying we're less developed then Muggles are? Not special at all?" she asked, narrowing her eyes a fraction but leaning back in her chair.
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Less developed? He pondered this for a second and then nodded slowly. “Yeah. If you look at things in terms of evolution. It's not necessarily a bad thing though.” He assured her with a shrug. “You realise what muggles would give to have even a fraction of the power we have?” Yeah. And that was a round about admission from Freddie that he was beginning to quite like the idea of being a wizard.
Whether Muggles were the next step in evolution?! An interesting approach, a very interesting approach. "I cannot tell you, to be honest. I don't know whether Muggles were first and at some point some started to acquire magical abilities or the other way around. Maybe there have always been both. I don't know. If you really want to know, maybe Silv- I mean Professor Welton can help." Did it matter, though, really?
Who was first...who was supposedly better.
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raising his hand "Michael White 2nd yr.biteing his lip and trying to think of a better way of putting his question"Proffessor why do magical sort of look down on non magical. It is kind of like mathmatical looking down on non mathatical,as far as I know No Witch or Wizzard has never been in space by using magic So the muggles are doing ok on thewr own "
Oh, one who shared his superior/inferior theory. Good boy. "Well, I assume because Witches and Wizards simply HAVE something, an additional power Muggles don't have." This was a fact. Muggles didn't have anything as such Wizards didn't. "Not that this is an excuse for that behavior, just a possible explanation." Still it was wrong, very wrong. But probably difficult to...turn off.
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"Annabelle Lecium, First Year. But u can call me Belle for short. She said as she raised her hand. i wanted to learn about muggles through a wizards/witch point of view, and i want to ask why are some muggles so against magic and not wanting to believe in it?"
It made him actually happy that so many new students were also taking his class. See, his class WAS popular after all. Despite Gevrik's surprise. Talking of whom, where was he actually. Not that he missed him or anything. "Well, Belle, they are not supposed to 'believe' it because they are not supposed to know about it. This is what the statute is for." He nodded slowly, trying to stay to the facts.
"And think about it, Belle...all of you actually, those who do know, automatically feel a little inferior because the wizards and witches are able to do something they can't." They would understand that, it was as simple as that.
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His hand shot up into the air. "Dallin McKinley." he said shortly, introducing himself before going onto what he wanted to say, in response to that girl. "And I don't really have a question, more of a comment. " That was okay, right? "Well, kind of a question, I guess. Anyway. Um, so I'm muggleborn, and so are two of my sisters. So of course my parents and my other sisters know about magic and the wizarding world, even though they're muggles."
Right. "But I was kind of wondering; what keeps them from not talking about it? Do you think it's just some moral thing, that they don't want to seem weird for saying it exists? Or are they somehow included in our secrecy thing? Or do they have their own? Ya know what I mean?" Probably not, since Dal was rambling, and he hardly ever made sense when he rambled.
Oh, wow, how many sisters did Dallin have? "Well, best would be to just ask them yourself." He COULD get a first-hand answer himself after all. With all those sisters around him. "But they are not supposed to talk about it. There are certain Muggles, like your parents or my parents for that matter, who are just confronted with the magical world. They have to know. There's no way around it. However, they are not supposed to talk about it to other people." The boy hadn't asked why so he wasn't going to answer that. Besides, there was probably no final answer for that.
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Ehh, she didn't have a particular question, but she had more of a query. "I was only wandering why muggle-borns are allowed to join this lesson." And she really didn't mean any offence by that, "it's just, they have an advantage over everybody else because they already know about muggles." Basically, they would all get 'Os' in there exams when everyone else would be studying their butts off.
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Aaand once again, he had to comment. Yes, he had a problem with keeping his mouth shut, even when he wasn't part of the conversation. But he had an opinion, and he wanted to share it.
"Having muggleborns in Muggle Studies is no different than say, having a pureblood in Care of Magical Creatures." Right? At least the way he looked at it. "Muggleborns might know about muggle things, but a pureblood wizard could have a magical creature as a pet." Aaaand he'd shut up now.
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Ella had a feeling that her question would spark up a bit of a debate. One boy, who must be a muggle-born, started to compare Muggle Studies to Care of Magical Creatures????
"That's completely different. Not everyone is interested in magical creatures. I don't have a magical pet." She clarified. Nope, her kittie was a muggle pet. "But, muggle-borns have to know about muggles because they basically ARE muggles." Not literally, but up until they find out they are magical, they would have been just regular muggles, right? And everything about muggles is just common knowledge, really. It's not like they had to learn anything because it came natural to them... Just like purebloods in the wizarding world.
"Besides, even if someone had a magical creature as a pet, it doesn't make them a mastermind in the subject." Like, seriously. Because there were thousands of different species out there to learn about. Realising that she was probably being a bit of a fiery debater, Ella said, "I'm not being rude, or anything. I just don't see the point in muggle-borns being here." Pssshht, Ella knew what she was talking about.
"If there was a 'Wizarding Studies' lesson, I wouldn't bother taking it." She quietly added. Yeaaaaahh, take that!
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*STAAAAAARE*
Why were the Muggleborns here? Trixie couldn't help but stare (once again) at her cousin as the comment was made. "BECAUSE, they may find it interesting to see what the lesson is about. AND they could be helpful to us Purebloods who don't ACTUALLY know anything." Yes she was defending Freddie there.
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"Jaina Maloney, first year, and as a muggleborn, I kinda feel that those that are from the wizarding world kinda dominate in the other classes," she stated as matter of factly as she could. "I mean honestly, we don't know anything about the wizarding world so are kinda left out when it comes to History of Magic and other subjects. We don't get the same bedtime stories as you. So we may have the edge on ONE class. God forbid!" she said sarcastically. I mean SERIOUSLY?!?! Besides, some of these muggleborns may not have been allowed out of the house a lot because of their magical ability, like her. She knew Belle and Alice would have her back on this one.
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The discussion then turned to something that made Freddie feel rather uncomfortable. He shifted in his seat a bit and looked at the brunette who was questioning why muggleborns should be allowed in this class. He frowned as it went back and forth with other kids who were protesting and then, to his surprise, Trixie got involved. He chewed his cheek nervously, then, once again, spoke up. “But don't the kids of magical parents have a distinct advantage in all other classes?” He asked levelly. “Kicking us out because we happen to have been brought up another way is segregation. It'd create a manufactured divide – 'them' and 'us'. Surely having a mix is beneficial to all of us. As Trixie pointed out, we can help out where needed. I'd like to think that the favour would be returned in say, Charms or Transfiguration.” He glanced once again at the blonde beside him and giving her a small smile for fighting his corner on this.
Hmm. What was Ella saying? That they shouldn't allow Muggleborns to take Muggle Studies? Because it was unfair? There seemed to be a few people NOT sharing her opinion though so Jeremy simply listened for a while until Trixie said something he felt the need to emphasize again. "Yes, personally I have to say that I'm always happy to have Muggleborns taking my class, mainly because they can help those who are not that well acquainted to certain Muggle objects or things like that." He nodded slowly, directing a smile at both Freddie and Trixie.
"Besides, Muggleborns might find it interesting to look at their families and former life-style through the eyes of wizards." Though he wasn't sure if he was giving them that. He WAS Muggleborn too after all. "And I can't emphasize enough what Freddie-" He gestured towards the Slytherin boy. "-just said. Please do return the favor in other classes. Help each other if somebody has problems in one of the classes." Stick together! One for all, all for one! Huzzah!
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JP was now getting slightly worried. His best friend and cousin was a muggle. If there was something going on in the muggle world he needed to know what.
"Professor, although a great deal of us have already asked this question. Is there something wrong in the muggle world that we should know about? Is there danger in the muggle world or something? Also, I still don't quite understand why the people in the photos muggles take are stationary. "
It made Jeremy quite happy that most of them seemed so concerned with the Muggles' well-being. Maybe too concerned though. This could be good and bad right now. Well, it all depended on how it was perceived by the students. "I would hope they are not." He finally replied with a small smile before considering the boy's next question for a moment. "Because they haven't been bewitched to move." Short, simple and true.
Now, back to the lesson. "No more chatting please." He gave the few students who had taken the opportunity to have a nice personal chit-chat with their neighbor a pointed look. Not that he was particularly looking forward to it but there was probably no way around it. He was going to have to make the best of it. So, just get it over with and smile.
Running a hand through his hair, Jeremy went back to leaning against the teacher's desk, simply regarding the class for a moment. "Now, I asked the older students to bring their notes from last year. Somebody, I think it was Mia-" His hazel eyes flickered towards the girl for a moment with a smile on his lips. "- asked what the survival rate was for people who have had CPR performed on them." He wasn't sure whether they had still been taking notes then.
They better have had. "Anybody remember how many percent that was?" He glanced around the classroom, trying to keep his cheerfulness up while waiting for an answer.
Oh. Wow. Lexi couldn't be serious about this...could she? After a few seconds of trying to keep the grin from breaking through, he had to realized that it was a lost battle. It just was too funny. "Would you like me to give you a cootie shot?" Jeremy teased lightly but before he could change the subject...
...all hell broke lose. Not really, but more and more people started to join the cootie discussion. Jeremy could only watch helplessly, still amused nonetheless, pushing himself up on the desk to sit on its top. "Guys, there are no-" But it was useless. They were too engrossed in deciding whether males or females were more likely to have cooties. This. Was. Crazy.
There was even a little boy who thought they were living things he could keep as pets. Erm. Moving up to Jake, Keefer and the little boy (Spike) with a small smile his eyes fell on the 'cootie shot' on Jake's hand. Would they all be singing circle, circle, dot, dot together soon? "Okay, okay, there ARE no cooties." Then with a small apologetic smile at the little Ravenclaw he added, "Sorry."
Was this as bad as telling them there was no Santa Claus? Hopefully not.
Jake. He didn't know him but he looked old enough to be in the sixth year or something. Was he new? "We won't. Not here and now anyways." If they really wanted to discuss it there would be a time and place to do so, but not now. Not like that. It would get out of control.
Already about to move on to the next student, he moved his attention back to the Hufflepuff as it seemed he did have a question after all. "I can't tell you that. It might. It might not." He answered vaguely but truthfully before with a small smile, he added pointedly, "And I thought you didn't want to talk about the statute...?" And neither did he, to be honest.
Now, back to the lesson. "No more chatting please." He gave the few students who had taken the opportunity to have a nice personal chit-chat with their neighbor a pointed look. Not that he was particularly looking forward to it but there was probably no way around it. He was going to have to make the best of it. So, just get it over with and smile.
Running a hand through his hair, Jeremy went back to leaning against the teacher's desk, simply regarding the class for a moment. "Now, I asked the older students to bring their notes from last year. Somebody, I think it was Mia-" His hazel eyes flickered towards the girl for a moment with a smile on his lips. "- asked what the survival rate was for people who have had CPR performed on them." He wasn't sure whether they had still been taking notes then.
They better have had. "Anybody remember how many percent that was?" He glanced around the classroom, trying to keep his cheerfulness up while waiting for an answer.
Cooties weren't real?
Well then.
Jake just felt betrayed. He even scowled at he cootie shot. So... had he now been infected with something WORSE?!
Statute. 'Kay. "Good."
And so. it. was.
Heh. Might change. SUCKAGE. The young man shrugged. "I don't. I just wanted to know that." So much more different than a discussion of the matter, in which things alway ended badly. And... how ironic that this was like the only subject where it hadn't been breached, right?
When it came to the question, Jake sat back and remained quiet. One thing he HADN'T been tutored on over the last year was Muggle Studies. Plus, he hadn't been HERE... so he didn't know the answer.
Bam.
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Now, back to the lesson. "No more chatting please." He gave the few students who had taken the opportunity to have a nice personal chit-chat with their neighbor a pointed look. Not that he was particularly looking forward to it but there was probably no way around it. He was going to have to make the best of it. So, just get it over with and smile.
Running a hand through his hair, Jeremy went back to leaning against the teacher's desk, simply regarding the class for a moment. "Now, I asked the older students to bring their notes from last year. Somebody, I think it was Mia-" His hazel eyes flickered towards the girl for a moment with a smile on his lips. "- asked what the survival rate was for people who have had CPR performed on them." He wasn't sure whether they had still been taking notes then.
They better have had. "Anybody remember how many percent that was?" He glanced around the classroom, trying to keep his cheerfulness up while waiting for an answer.
Quickly shuffling through the mountaneous collection of papers that were his notes from last term, Patroclus finally located the page he was looking for, After starring nostaglically at the page what detailed his role as Baseball Umpire
"Sir I believe you said it was 5 to 10 percent survival rate for CPR recipients"
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How many survived? she knew it was a very small amount, but she couldn't remember the exact percentage. Bring out the notes from the last class of the term, she looked through the last bit. When she finally found it, she raised her hand. "5 to 10 precent." she said confidently.
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Text Cut: Questions & Answers
On his way over to where Lexi was raising her hand, his gaze passed Kurumi who looked sort of...uncomfortable with the whole topic. Of course she would. And exactly that made him feel really bad about having to bring it up in the first place.
With a genuine sympathetic smile for the Gryffindor, Jeremy finally moved on to call on the other students who were raising their hands.
Text Cut: The cooties-discussion
Oh. Wow. Lexi couldn't be serious about this...could she? After a few seconds of trying to keep the grin from breaking through, he had to realized that it was a lost battle. It just was too funny. "Would you like me to give you a cootie shot?" Jeremy teased lightly but before he could change the subject...
...all hell broke lose. Not really, but more and more people started to join the cootie discussion. Jeremy could only watch helplessly, still amused nonetheless, pushing himself up on the desk to sit on its top. "Guys, there are no-" But it was useless. They were too engrossed in deciding whether males or females were more likely to have cooties. This. Was. Crazy.
There was even a little boy who thought they were living things he could keep as pets. Erm. Moving up to Jake, Keefer and the little boy (Spike) with a small smile his eyes fell on the 'cootie shot' on Jake's hand. Would they all be singing circle, circle, dot, dot together soon? "Okay, okay, there ARE no cooties." Then with a small apologetic smile at the little Ravenclaw he added, "Sorry."
Was this as bad as telling them there was no Santa Claus? Hopefully not.
Still amused by the previous discussion, Annie's question brought them back to what he originally intended to comment on at the beginning of this lesson. Just comment. Not forcing his opinion on them or anything. "Yes, Annie, but it wouldn't be 'without them knowing'-" He quoted what she'd said at the beginning. "-would it?" Because they would know. Why think about abolishing the statute otherwise.
If they wouldn't know about it then who was he to object.
In danger? Jeremy simply regarded the girl for a moment, positively surprised at her concern. "No..." He finally answered slowly, dragging the word out to buy himself some time. This would be bad. "I mean, there's never certainty of anybody not being in danger but, I don't think this is the reason." Not danger as such, anyhow.
Or were they? Was Cooper in danger? His parents? His family?
Jake. He didn't know him but he looked old enough to be in the sixth year or something. Was he new? "We won't. Not here and now anyways." If they really wanted to discuss it there would be a time and place to do so, but not now. Not like that. It would get out of control.
Already about to move on to the next student, he moved his attention back to the Hufflepuff as it seemed he did have a question after all. "I can't tell you that. It might. It might not." He answered vaguely but truthfully before with a small smile, he added pointedly, "And I thought you didn't want to talk about the statute...?" And neither did he, to be honest.
Another interesting and relevant question. Not. Jeremy couldn't help but simply stare at Trixie for a moment, clearly amused by her question. Had anybody told her to ask that? Where had that come from? "Sea World...well, there are a lot of aquariums there." There was probably some other word for it but he couldn't care less to be honest. "With loads of sea animals...and other stuff. It's a theme park."Shrug.
He did notice the grin Trixie gave the boy next to her, Freddie, and immediately suspected him to be involved in telling her about Sea World. Or not telling her actually.
He simply nodded for a moment, trying to come up with a suitable reply. Though, there really wasn't much to say as the girl had only stated her opinion which he was of course going to accept. If he agreed with her or not. "Good point." As long as the focus was only on Muggles as such and not on a specific aspect or anything. He wasn't sure what the other professors taught in their lessons. Maybe it was just that.
Maybe it wasn't.
"Alex it is then." Jeremy said with a smile at the boy upon turning slightly to face him. "No, Al is my sister." It would be weird calling other people that...especially a boy. He didn't explain his statement further though but simply left it at that. It had made sense enough right?
Muggle-thingies? "I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you're talking about? What kind of Muggle thingies?" He purposefully used the same word the boy had used, amusement clearly obvious on his face.
Text Cut: Why?
The others were focussing so much on Muggles that Purebloods felt that they were falling behind?! That was just wrong. "Did you tell your professors that? They should be thinking about that." He normally wasn't one to tell others what to do but this was just wrong. No wonder they started to dislike the special emphasis on Muggles...though, maybe that was a good thing?
"There is, there is. It's part of the curriculum this term. And because there have been controversial opinions on the Statute." Jeremy replied vaguely with a smile directed at the young Slytherin, Sierra, and all the others who had asked about the why. This was all he could tell them for now.
Jeremy couldn't help but smile slightly at the way the boy was waving about with both of his hands. "One hand is enough." He commented with a wink in Keefer's direction. "Oh, and...this isn't that easy. But I'll keep it in mind, okay, and I promise we WILL talk about it at some point." When he wasn't sure but he was going to keep his promise. Or try to anyhow.
Oh, he knew that one. Chloe had been there last term too. At least he was pretty sure she had been. And it was true. It would be amazing if there was a way to help them like that. "The statute isn't for the wizarding world but for the Muggles." Was all Jeremy said, too lost in his own thoughts to give a more detailed explanation.
There had to be a way...but something told him, this was not it.
Another one who was feeling uncomfortable about the special Muggle focus in all the lessons. "Well, Emily, I'm afraid that it will still be present throughout the rest of the term." Jeremy replied with a small nod, and a sigh. Unless, there was some major showdown of some sorts between some people of course.
Ha. Salander never failed to amuse him, no matter what the conversation topic was. "No, unfortunately not. Unfair, isn't it?" Jeremy mused with a small grin which didn't quite reach his eyes. No, no special premium for him. Far from really.
Nodding at Dianna to show her she was allowed to speak up, Jeremy listened to what she had to say. Interesting. Were they more interested in their way of life of Muggles? Though, of course objects were directly linked to that. "I can only talk about my lessons of course. Yes, probably more on what you said, about their way of life and such." He agreed with a nod and a smile for the Slytherin.
Since he had already sort of answered the first question, Jeremy concentrated on Matthias' other two. "Well, I can't tell you anything more than what Mr. Gevrik has told you. However, you might want to ask him yourself." Yes, go ask him!!!
Folding his hands in his lap absently, Jeremy considered the boy's question for a moment. Ignorant? He would lose his job if that were true. "Isn't this-" He made a rather vague hand gesture, taking in the class and everybody within. "-proof enough that this isn't possible? We wouldn't have discussions like these. We wouldn't even have this class." Obviously.
After a small pause he added with a small slightly sad smile, "We're all the same. Only because some of us are able to do magic doesn't mean we're completely different or better than Muggles. We don't act differently, this isn't like comparing humans to animals. People tend to forget that." There was a hint of bitterness in his voice as he said the last sentence but he gave Sabel a smile.
When he let his gaze move on to the next person raising their hand, Jeremy's eyes fell on Wesley's new badge she was fiddling with. Oh, Prefect? Good for her, he was sure she would do well at that.
A genuine, fond smile on his lips he simply nodded slowly at first, trying to memorize her little speech. It was nice, it was perfect, it was to the point. "Well said, Wesley. Thank you."They're the other half of the story.
Shows on television?! Interesting question. "Well, it depends on what kind of television show you are referring to." Documentaries...dramas...comedies...etc. "There are a lot of exaggerations on TV, though." He ended his reply with a smile.
What?! When had Gevrik said that? Probably at that meet-and-greet thing he had not been invited to. That's nice. Had they all been there? Apart from him. And Kimber. He wasn't sure who else had or had not been invited but yeah. "I'm pretty sure what Mr. Gevrik wants is not working against them." He simply stated, an unreadable expression on his face.
Whether that meant it would be good for the Muggles was still to be determined.
...
Jeremy just stared at the boy for a moment, trying to figure out what he was trying to say. He could only be talking about being Muggleborn, right? "You mean you're Muggleborn, with both of your parents being Muggles?" Anything else didn't exactly make much sense. At least he was pretty sure about that.
Oh good idea. Clever Ravenclaw. "Yes, I'll keep that in mind. We can compare it to risks of magical kinds of traveling, like splinching and such." Jeremy agreed with a nod, already planning the lesson in his mind. This would be an interesting aspect to discuss and give them something to think about.
Bullying. That was always a major topic, no matter where. "Certain people just can't accept that other people are different. They're afraid of different. No matter what sort of different." Yes, this was the main problem. Not whether the 'different' was magic or not. They would find something else. A different reason to insult others.
Of course. How could he forget Satine. Satine and her hair. You just COULDN'T forget her. What was she suggesting? A field trip. Into the Muggle world. To observe Muggles in their everyday life. "This sounds like a trip to the zoo." Jeremy muttered under his breath, more to himself than to anybody else.
"Maybe, I'll think about it, okay?" He replied with a sort of half-smile for the Ravenclaw before moving his attention back to the other students.
Text Cut: Evolution Theory
Whether Muggles were the next step in evolution?! An interesting approach, a very interesting approach. "I cannot tell you, to be honest. I don't know whether Muggles were first and at some point some started to acquire magical abilities or the other way around. Maybe there have always been both. I don't know. If you really want to know, maybe Silv- I mean Professor Welton can help." Did it matter, though, really?
Who was first...who was supposedly better.
Oh, one who shared his superior/inferior theory. Good boy. "Well, I assume because Witches and Wizards simply HAVE something, an additional power Muggles don't have." This was a fact. Muggles didn't have anything as such Wizards didn't. "Not that this is an excuse for that behavior, just a possible explanation." Still it was wrong, very wrong. But probably difficult to...turn off.
It made him actually happy that so many new students were also taking his class. See, his class WAS popular after all. Despite Gevrik's surprise. Talking of whom, where was he actually. Not that he missed him or anything. "Well, Belle, they are not supposed to 'believe' it because they are not supposed to know about it. This is what the statute is for." He nodded slowly, trying to stay to the facts.
"And think about it, Belle...all of you actually, those who do know, automatically feel a little inferior because the wizards and witches are able to do something they can't." They would understand that, it was as simple as that.
Oh, wow, how many sisters did Dallin have? "Well, best would be to just ask them yourself." He COULD get a first-hand answer himself after all. With all those sisters around him. "But they are not supposed to talk about it. There are certain Muggles, like your parents or my parents for that matter, who are just confronted with the magical world. They have to know. There's no way around it. However, they are not supposed to talk about it to other people." The boy hadn't asked why so he wasn't going to answer that. Besides, there was probably no final answer for that.
Text Cut: Muggleborns in Muggle Studies
Hmm. What was Ella saying? That they shouldn't allow Muggleborns to take Muggle Studies? Because it was unfair? There seemed to be a few people NOT sharing her opinion though so Jeremy simply listened for a while until Trixie said something he felt the need to emphasize again. "Yes, personally I have to say that I'm always happy to have Muggleborns taking my class, mainly because they can help those who are not that well acquainted to certain Muggle objects or things like that." He nodded slowly, directing a smile at both Freddie and Trixie.
"Besides, Muggleborns might find it interesting to look at their families and former life-style through the eyes of wizards." Though he wasn't sure if he was giving them that. He WAS Muggleborn too after all. "And I can't emphasize enough what Freddie-" He gestured towards the Slytherin boy. "-just said. Please do return the favor in other classes. Help each other if somebody has problems in one of the classes." Stick together! One for all, all for one! Huzzah!
It made Jeremy quite happy that most of them seemed so concerned with the Muggles' well-being. Maybe too concerned though. This could be good and bad right now. Well, it all depended on how it was perceived by the students. "I would hope they are not." He finally replied with a small smile before considering the boy's next question for a moment. "Because they haven't been bewitched to move." Short, simple and true.
Now, back to the lesson. "No more chatting please." He gave the few students who had taken the opportunity to have a nice personal chit-chat with their neighbor a pointed look. Not that he was particularly looking forward to it but there was probably no way around it. He was going to have to make the best of it. So, just get it over with and smile.
Running a hand through his hair, Jeremy went back to leaning against the teacher's desk, simply regarding the class for a moment. "Now, I asked the older students to bring their notes from last year. Somebody, I think it was Mia-" His hazel eyes flickered towards the girl for a moment with a smile on his lips. "- asked what the survival rate was for people who have had CPR performed on them." He wasn't sure whether they had still been taking notes then.
They better have had. "Anybody remember how many percent that was?" He glanced around the classroom, trying to keep his cheerfulness up while waiting for an answer.
Mia returned the Professor's smile and raised her hand in the air. "I think it was something like about a five per cent survival rate."
Whic was a pretty low figure but it was better than zero, she supposed.
OOC: Sorry, I was sick. Back(ish) now. *waves at you all* You can still react to the Q&A part below.
Text Cut: Questions & Answers
On his way over to where Lexi was raising her hand, his gaze passed Kurumi who looked sort of...uncomfortable with the whole topic. Of course she would. And exactly that made him feel really bad about having to bring it up in the first place.
With a genuine sympathetic smile for the Gryffindor, Jeremy finally moved on to call on the other students who were raising their hands.
Text Cut: The cooties-discussion
Oh. Wow. Lexi couldn't be serious about this...could she? After a few seconds of trying to keep the grin from breaking through, he had to realized that it was a lost battle. It just was too funny. "Would you like me to give you a cootie shot?" Jeremy teased lightly but before he could change the subject...
...all hell broke lose. Not really, but more and more people started to join the cootie discussion. Jeremy could only watch helplessly, still amused nonetheless, pushing himself up on the desk to sit on its top. "Guys, there are no-" But it was useless. They were too engrossed in deciding whether males or females were more likely to have cooties. This. Was. Crazy.
There was even a little boy who thought they were living things he could keep as pets. Erm. Moving up to Jake, Keefer and the little boy (Spike) with a small smile his eyes fell on the 'cootie shot' on Jake's hand. Would they all be singing circle, circle, dot, dot together soon? "Okay, okay, there ARE no cooties." Then with a small apologetic smile at the little Ravenclaw he added, "Sorry."
Was this as bad as telling them there was no Santa Claus? Hopefully not.
Still amused by the previous discussion, Annie's question brought them back to what he originally intended to comment on at the beginning of this lesson. Just comment. Not forcing his opinion on them or anything. "Yes, Annie, but it wouldn't be 'without them knowing'-" He quoted what she'd said at the beginning. "-would it?" Because they would know. Why think about abolishing the statute otherwise.
If they wouldn't know about it then who was he to object.
In danger? Jeremy simply regarded the girl for a moment, positively surprised at her concern. "No..." He finally answered slowly, dragging the word out to buy himself some time. This would be bad. "I mean, there's never certainty of anybody not being in danger but, I don't think this is the reason." Not danger as such, anyhow.
Or were they? Was Cooper in danger? His parents? His family?
Jake. He didn't know him but he looked old enough to be in the sixth year or something. Was he new? "We won't. Not here and now anyways." If they really wanted to discuss it there would be a time and place to do so, but not now. Not like that. It would get out of control.
Already about to move on to the next student, he moved his attention back to the Hufflepuff as it seemed he did have a question after all. "I can't tell you that. It might. It might not." He answered vaguely but truthfully before with a small smile, he added pointedly, "And I thought you didn't want to talk about the statute...?" And neither did he, to be honest.
Another interesting and relevant question. Not. Jeremy couldn't help but simply stare at Trixie for a moment, clearly amused by her question. Had anybody told her to ask that? Where had that come from? "Sea World...well, there are a lot of aquariums there." There was probably some other word for it but he couldn't care less to be honest. "With loads of sea animals...and other stuff. It's a theme park."Shrug.
He did notice the grin Trixie gave the boy next to her, Freddie, and immediately suspected him to be involved in telling her about Sea World. Or not telling her actually.
He simply nodded for a moment, trying to come up with a suitable reply. Though, there really wasn't much to say as the girl had only stated her opinion which he was of course going to accept. If he agreed with her or not. "Good point." As long as the focus was only on Muggles as such and not on a specific aspect or anything. He wasn't sure what the other professors taught in their lessons. Maybe it was just that.
Maybe it wasn't.
"Alex it is then." Jeremy said with a smile at the boy upon turning slightly to face him. "No, Al is my sister." It would be weird calling other people that...especially a boy. He didn't explain his statement further though but simply left it at that. It had made sense enough right?
Muggle-thingies? "I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you're talking about? What kind of Muggle thingies?" He purposefully used the same word the boy had used, amusement clearly obvious on his face.
Text Cut: Why?
The others were focussing so much on Muggles that Purebloods felt that they were falling behind?! That was just wrong. "Did you tell your professors that? They should be thinking about that." He normally wasn't one to tell others what to do but this was just wrong. No wonder they started to dislike the special emphasis on Muggles...though, maybe that was a good thing?
"There is, there is. It's part of the curriculum this term. And because there have been controversial opinions on the Statute." Jeremy replied vaguely with a smile directed at the young Slytherin, Sierra, and all the others who had asked about the why. This was all he could tell them for now.
Jeremy couldn't help but smile slightly at the way the boy was waving about with both of his hands. "One hand is enough." He commented with a wink in Keefer's direction. "Oh, and...this isn't that easy. But I'll keep it in mind, okay, and I promise we WILL talk about it at some point." When he wasn't sure but he was going to keep his promise. Or try to anyhow.
Oh, he knew that one. Chloe had been there last term too. At least he was pretty sure she had been. And it was true. It would be amazing if there was a way to help them like that. "The statute isn't for the wizarding world but for the Muggles." Was all Jeremy said, too lost in his own thoughts to give a more detailed explanation.
There had to be a way...but something told him, this was not it.
Another one who was feeling uncomfortable about the special Muggle focus in all the lessons. "Well, Emily, I'm afraid that it will still be present throughout the rest of the term." Jeremy replied with a small nod, and a sigh. Unless, there was some major showdown of some sorts between some people of course.
Ha. Salander never failed to amuse him, no matter what the conversation topic was. "No, unfortunately not. Unfair, isn't it?" Jeremy mused with a small grin which didn't quite reach his eyes. No, no special premium for him. Far from really.
Nodding at Dianna to show her she was allowed to speak up, Jeremy listened to what she had to say. Interesting. Were they more interested in their way of life of Muggles? Though, of course objects were directly linked to that. "I can only talk about my lessons of course. Yes, probably more on what you said, about their way of life and such." He agreed with a nod and a smile for the Slytherin.
Since he had already sort of answered the first question, Jeremy concentrated on Matthias' other two. "Well, I can't tell you anything more than what Mr. Gevrik has told you. However, you might want to ask him yourself." Yes, go ask him!!!
Folding his hands in his lap absently, Jeremy considered the boy's question for a moment. Ignorant? He would lose his job if that were true. "Isn't this-" He made a rather vague hand gesture, taking in the class and everybody within. "-proof enough that this isn't possible? We wouldn't have discussions like these. We wouldn't even have this class." Obviously.
After a small pause he added with a small slightly sad smile, "We're all the same. Only because some of us are able to do magic doesn't mean we're completely different or better than Muggles. We don't act differently, this isn't like comparing humans to animals. People tend to forget that." There was a hint of bitterness in his voice as he said the last sentence but he gave Sabel a smile.
When he let his gaze move on to the next person raising their hand, Jeremy's eyes fell on Wesley's new badge she was fiddling with. Oh, Prefect? Good for her, he was sure she would do well at that.
A genuine, fond smile on his lips he simply nodded slowly at first, trying to memorize her little speech. It was nice, it was perfect, it was to the point. "Well said, Wesley. Thank you."They're the other half of the story.
Shows on television?! Interesting question. "Well, it depends on what kind of television show you are referring to." Documentaries...dramas...comedies...etc. "There are a lot of exaggerations on TV, though." He ended his reply with a smile.
What?! When had Gevrik said that? Probably at that meet-and-greet thing he had not been invited to. That's nice. Had they all been there? Apart from him. And Kimber. He wasn't sure who else had or had not been invited but yeah. "I'm pretty sure what Mr. Gevrik wants is not working against them." He simply stated, an unreadable expression on his face.
Whether that meant it would be good for the Muggles was still to be determined.
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Jeremy just stared at the boy for a moment, trying to figure out what he was trying to say. He could only be talking about being Muggleborn, right? "You mean you're Muggleborn, with both of your parents being Muggles?" Anything else didn't exactly make much sense. At least he was pretty sure about that.
Oh good idea. Clever Ravenclaw. "Yes, I'll keep that in mind. We can compare it to risks of magical kinds of traveling, like splinching and such." Jeremy agreed with a nod, already planning the lesson in his mind. This would be an interesting aspect to discuss and give them something to think about.
Bullying. That was always a major topic, no matter where. "Certain people just can't accept that other people are different. They're afraid of different. No matter what sort of different." Yes, this was the main problem. Not whether the 'different' was magic or not. They would find something else. A different reason to insult others.
Of course. How could he forget Satine. Satine and her hair. You just COULDN'T forget her. What was she suggesting? A field trip. Into the Muggle world. To observe Muggles in their everyday life. "This sounds like a trip to the zoo." Jeremy muttered under his breath, more to himself than to anybody else.
"Maybe, I'll think about it, okay?" He replied with a sort of half-smile for the Ravenclaw before moving his attention back to the other students.
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Whether Muggles were the next step in evolution?! An interesting approach, a very interesting approach. "I cannot tell you, to be honest. I don't know whether Muggles were first and at some point some started to acquire magical abilities or the other way around. Maybe there have always been both. I don't know. If you really want to know, maybe Silv- I mean Professor Welton can help." Did it matter, though, really?
Who was first...who was supposedly better.
Oh, one who shared his superior/inferior theory. Good boy. "Well, I assume because Witches and Wizards simply HAVE something, an additional power Muggles don't have." This was a fact. Muggles didn't have anything as such Wizards didn't. "Not that this is an excuse for that behavior, just a possible explanation." Still it was wrong, very wrong. But probably difficult to...turn off.
It made him actually happy that so many new students were also taking his class. See, his class WAS popular after all. Despite Gevrik's surprise. Talking of whom, where was he actually. Not that he missed him or anything. "Well, Belle, they are not supposed to 'believe' it because they are not supposed to know about it. This is what the statute is for." He nodded slowly, trying to stay to the facts.
"And think about it, Belle...all of you actually, those who do know, automatically feel a little inferior because the wizards and witches are able to do something they can't." They would understand that, it was as simple as that.
Oh, wow, how many sisters did Dallin have? "Well, best would be to just ask them yourself." He COULD get a first-hand answer himself after all. With all those sisters around him. "But they are not supposed to talk about it. There are certain Muggles, like your parents or my parents for that matter, who are just confronted with the magical world. They have to know. There's no way around it. However, they are not supposed to talk about it to other people." The boy hadn't asked why so he wasn't going to answer that. Besides, there was probably no final answer for that.
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Hmm. What was Ella saying? That they shouldn't allow Muggleborns to take Muggle Studies? Because it was unfair? There seemed to be a few people NOT sharing her opinion though so Jeremy simply listened for a while until Trixie said something he felt the need to emphasize again. "Yes, personally I have to say that I'm always happy to have Muggleborns taking my class, mainly because they can help those who are not that well acquainted to certain Muggle objects or things like that." He nodded slowly, directing a smile at both Freddie and Trixie.
"Besides, Muggleborns might find it interesting to look at their families and former life-style through the eyes of wizards." Though he wasn't sure if he was giving them that. He WAS Muggleborn too after all. "And I can't emphasize enough what Freddie-" He gestured towards the Slytherin boy. "-just said. Please do return the favor in other classes. Help each other if somebody has problems in one of the classes." Stick together! One for all, all for one! Huzzah!
It made Jeremy quite happy that most of them seemed so concerned with the Muggles' well-being. Maybe too concerned though. This could be good and bad right now. Well, it all depended on how it was perceived by the students. "I would hope they are not." He finally replied with a small smile before considering the boy's next question for a moment. "Because they haven't been bewitched to move." Short, simple and true.
Now, back to the lesson. "No more chatting please." He gave the few students who had taken the opportunity to have a nice personal chit-chat with their neighbor a pointed look. Not that he was particularly looking forward to it but there was probably no way around it. He was going to have to make the best of it. So, just get it over with and smile.
Running a hand through his hair, Jeremy went back to leaning against the teacher's desk, simply regarding the class for a moment. "Now, I asked the older students to bring their notes from last year. Somebody, I think it was Mia-" His hazel eyes flickered towards the girl for a moment with a smile on his lips. "- asked what the survival rate was for people who have had CPR performed on them." He wasn't sure whether they had still been taking notes then.
They better have had. "Anybody remember how many percent that was?" He glanced around the classroom, trying to keep his cheerfulness up while waiting for an answer.
Jamie stopped doodling and payed attention. Of course the older students would give most of the answers. She just sat there and listened to them rattle off the percents.
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"Professor, doesn't it depend on how quickly you are able to perform CPR?" Kurumi asked. "I believe it was mentioned that if you are able to perform CPR within the first two to three minutes of the victim collapsing that the survial rate could go up as high as 50%. Every minute lost results in a minues 10% of success rate. On average, I think the success rate is somewhere between 5% to 10%." There was also the matter of how hard you were pushing on the person...too much and you would fracture a rib.
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