Alfie watched as the Professor explained that both forms of magic shouldn't be compared to one another, as they were just incredibly different from one another. She gave a brief nod at this, her parchment balanced on her knee as she wrote down the list that had been written on the board. It was then that Professor Cerulean asked what Close Up magic tricks they had heard of. Thinking for a moment, the blonde raised her hand and spoke softly, "I'm not sure if this would be considered 'Close Up', but there's the classic muggle magic trick of pulling a rabbit out of a hat," she suggested with a small smile. "Where the magician shows the crowd an empty top hat before proceeding to pull a rabbit out of it."

William racked his brain for a Close Up Magic Trick. He did not want to copy anyone's answers. The answers are awesome. " How about a needle through a balloon ?" William asked the professor " This should be Close-Up Magic" Willaim said to the professor.

Lara was watching Professor Cerulean closely she didn't want to miss any of this interesting show or lesson.

She paused trying to remember seeing any of the muggles magicians but of course she didn't remember .However, she was shown by one of her Muggle-born father's friends one single trick. She raised her hand and said "I've seen one once , there's that trick when the magician holds few rings and he shows them to the people who're watching then he starts moving them fast and they go through each other to make a chain" she explained "Of course the rings are made for this purpose" she said.

SPOILER!!: Thank you for the examples everyone....

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Amy put her hand up, umm, how about the one where you have the ball under the cup and the cups are swapped around so the person being tricked gets confused, and then they have to pick which cup the ball is under? Amy suggested, or the card one? She shrugged.

THIS LESSON. SO COOL.

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Lexi pulled a face and raised her hand once more. "I mean mundane as they cannot perform OUR magic. Not that they are all boring or anything like that, Professor. Sorry for the confusion. And another tricky thingy is that thing they do with the ball and the cups. You know... you have to be up close for that. I have seen it in Greece when I was on holiday. A dude was performing it on the street," she said in a rather bored tone.

She really didn't give a rat's tail about muggle magic tricks. SIGHS FOR LIFE. And the WORST part of all... there was no Professor Zookara to STARE at. SIGHSIGHSIGH.

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Nika raised her hand and waved it in the air enthusiastically as if to say "Oh pick me! Pick me!" She loved and still loves magic tricks and no matter what anyone says they are real. She beamed as she said her answer. "Well I know a card trick where you say 'Pick a card, any card!' then the person picks a card and can't show it to you, but there is a trick to it and the magician is able to figure out the card! It's really cool." Yes, her favorite.

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Close up magic?

Was this that kind of muggle magic usually performed at a table, or small tricks? "Are those tricky images, the optical illusions, considered close up magic?" Helena asked after she raised her hand. She still wasn't good when it came to Muggle Studies.

But the girl was also wondering when will they get to the History of Magic part of the lesson, since professor Zookara seems to have vanished.

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She nodded trying to look at all the words on the board, but she wasn't one for reading. That was for people who didn't have talent and needed to rely in their book smarts or an inheritance. She stood up with her hand raised, "I've seen that pulling a coin thing from someone'e ear a few times." she added. It was the lamest muggle trick she could think of.

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Rose raised her hand. 'When me and my parents used to walk around the market, and once a man came up and asked to do a magic trick. So he held a coin in his hand, made it vanish and pulled it out of my ear!' Rose grinned as she said her answer

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What?? Muggles can't do magic! They're not like wizards or witches! They don't have a tiny drop of magic blood in them.

Unless the professor meant the magic tricks they do.

"Wizard magic is real magic, it is what we were born with. It's a supernatural power." Savannah started to say. "But the so-called muggle magic is not real magic. They are simply illusions, or muggle science. They do that to amuse people." Muggle tricks are actually pretty cool. She brought some from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, there are a whole lot of them! But Savannah never got to master them.

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Hmmm, did card tricks count? "I can do a card trick, they're more logic than trickery though." she said, "Like ordering the pack or looking at a certain card..." Hmmm, she actually loved card tricks. "There's one quite simple one, you fan out the pack, ask the other person to pick one and ask them to memorize it and put it back in the pack, then sift through them quickly and tell them what it is." she explained, possibly the easiest one she knew.

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Ness thought for a while she had seen quite a few magicians, at parties when she was smaller, and tried decide which magic trick seemed to be best for the question the Proffessor had just asked.'hmmmm' thought Ness 'maybe the card tricks, but no that had already been mentioned'. Then Ness thought of the perfect one, she put up her hand and waited her turn.."Well Proffessor many magicians, take a coin and make you believe that they ate it and swollowed it, they then show you the 'same' coin in ther hand, behind your ear, or anywhere else." said Ness hoping the way she worded the trick made sense, because she wasn't the best when trying to explain things. She listened to what the other student said, then waited for the next instruction or question.

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Louisa, beaming because she was still pleased with her correct answer earlier, raised her hand once again. She attended a lot of circuses with Jason so she knew quite some. "I saw the one which the so-called wizard.." emphasize on the 'so-called', "..takes a long handkerchief from under his sleeve. It might go a mile long." She nodded confidently. It was always kind of amazing how people 'wow'ed and 'oh'ed when the handkerchief went on and on.. and on.

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Alfie watched as the Professor explained that both forms of magic shouldn't be compared to one another, as they were just incredibly different from one another. She gave a brief nod at this, her parchment balanced on her knee as she wrote down the list that had been written on the board. It was then that Professor Cerulean asked what Close Up magic tricks they had heard of. Thinking for a moment, the blonde raised her hand and spoke softly, "I'm not sure if this would be considered 'Close Up', but there's the classic muggle magic trick of pulling a rabbit out of a hat," she suggested with a small smile. "Where the magician shows the crowd an empty top hat before proceeding to pull a rabbit out of it."

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William racked his brain for a Close Up Magic Trick. He did not want to copy anyone's answers. The answers are awesome. " How about a needle through a balloon ?" William asked the professor " This should be Close-Up Magic" Willaim said to the professor.

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Lara was watching Professor Cerulean closely she didn't want to miss any of this interesting show or lesson.

She paused trying to remember seeing any of the muggles magicians but of course she didn't remember .However, she was shown by one of her Muggle-born father's friends one single trick. She raised her hand and said "I've seen one once , there's that trick when the magician holds few rings and he shows them to the people who're watching then he starts moving them fast and they go through each other to make a chain" she explained "Of course the rings are made for this purpose" she said.

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Eino listened attentively, then quickly raised his hand to share his own muggle magic experience. "I have seen a man, and he holds a doll, and then the doll talks to the man!" He didn't know how the doll could talk, but Eino had tried to find a spell to recreate the animated talking doll but always in vain. He had seen this man several times in different street corners. The doll was pretty scary, but Eino was always fascinated by the fact that it could talk!

So yes, what Eino was talking about wasn't really magic, it was ventriloquism but it took talent and it was an illusion. He really had no idea what it was but he was sure it was magical.

One of the student's answers took Gemma back just for a second...he had really thought outside of the box on this one, "Well, you know, Eino....I'm not really sure if what the muggles call Ventriquilism is considered a Magic Trick or not...but..." she paused and thought about it, "But I think it def could...I mean it is a talent that you have to learn...it is a trick to those watching...and not everyone can do it...and muggles can see it as entertainment....Great thinking!!!!" she said nodding approvingly. She liked when students thought outside of the norms in her class.

She flicked her wand and the examples the students had mentioned flashed onto the chalkboard under the sparkling title 'Close-Up Magic'.

SPOILER!!: List of Close-Up Magic Examples

She turned to make sure they were all on there and then she flicked her wand again and the green sheet on top of the first spotlighted table disappeared. On the table stood many decks of cards, sets of cups with ping pong balls in them, oversized gallons and coins, and handkerchiefs of all shapes and sizes and colors. They all began rattling all at once as if they were excited to be in the spotlight.

The professor glanced at the door as if checking for something and then walked over to the purple table.

"The next type of Muggle Magic is called platform magic. It can also be known as parlor magic," "club magic" or "cabaret magic". This is done in a much larger scale than the first. Some tricks of this type that are well-known include cutting a person that is inside a box in half or making a person who's lying down levitate in the air after the table below has been removed. " she paused and then continued, "This type of magic usually requires an assistant or an audience member in order to make it happen." She flicked her wand and a screen dropped down on the edge of the stage. The stage lights dropped and a video began playing on the screen giving an example of platform magic.

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Actually a pretty cool trick from America's Got Talent a few seasons back!

After the video finished, she glanced out at the students again, "Some famous platform magicians are Penn & Teller and the gentleman you just saw, Kevin James." she paused as the screen disappeared into thin air. "Can anyone give me more examples of platform magic? Now remember that this isn't making huge items disappear or anything crazy like that...we aren't to those tricks yet..."

OOC: I'll give you a couple of hours to come up with some answers. Please remember to raise your hand and try not to repeat answers...o and ONLY ONE ANSWER PER PERSON PLEASE... . No chatting remember Gemma is watching you!!!

SPOILER!!: Close-up Magic answer

"Well, through my short lived dream of becoming a magician when I was younger, I witnessed lots of Close-up Magic," Rebecca started raising her hand. "The most popular being pulling a rabbit out of a hat. A few of others include turning milk into flowers, the 'disappearing' egg, the 'disappearing' coin, and card tricks." She was sure those were correct. And if they weren't, she could look through her magic trick book that she always carries with her, just in case the time should arise that she would need to ask a professor about anything inside the book.

"I once saw this video of this 'mind freak' named Cris Angel," Rebecca started. "And in the video, Cris Angel laid on broken glass and then had a cement roller roll over him. In the end, he survived. With no broken bones or anything. So would that be an example of platform magic?" She wasn't too sure if that counted, but if it didn't it would bring up a good discussion topic.

Kimalia didn't answer the last question seeing as she had already given her two examples during the first question when she asked for the difference between wizard and muggle magic. Kimalia raised her hand for another idea that popped into her head, "Well, this isn't necessarily a huge removable item, there's the missing coin trick where they will make it 'disappear' then have it reappear from behind another person's ear." Kimalia wondered whether Squibs have to resort to these type of tricks in order to try proving themselves to wizards. "Another trick I can think of is where one person will shoot a gun and the other person will catch the bullet in their teeth, which is something not recommended for any muggle to try without knowing the mechanics behind it."

Alfie watched the video with pure interest on her expression, knowing all the while that it was some form of illusion, but not exactly sure of how it happened. It was certainly interesting to watch, that was for sure. As the Professor asked for other examples of Platform magic, the blonde thought for a moment, trying her best to come up with something similar. She raised her hand thoughtfully, "I think I've seen another trick where the magician is put in a locked box, with their hands locked by handcuffs or something of the sort. Then they have to escape one way or another, but I'm not sure if that would be considered a Platform trick," she finished softly.

Tiberius smiled, remembering a show that his mother took him to. It was... a well-intentioned effort to bond with him over magic.

Raising his hand, he offered what had been one of his favorite tricks as a younger boy. "there's a trick where the magician puts someone in a box, twists it around a couple of times and then opens it again... To reveal that the volunteer has vanished."

Raven even raise from muggle environment, still amaze from all of this, He do magic legally at least in school, but those magician in muggle having hi-speed-hand is amazing, maybe he called it talent anyways.

he shot his hand in the air before saying "Usually those so called magician is always, yes always, have an assistant for example trowing knives in a spinning wheel, it illusion, because the hidden, yes hidden, assistant place the knives on the wheel by, what they called, by some of them a reverse pushing" whew that long.

William raised his hand. " There is the " Indian Rope Trick" Willaim told the professor. " There are three versions of this trick" Willaim said to the professor. " I like this version- The magician hurls a rope into the air, then the assistant climbs the rope,disappears and then he re-apperrs on the ground with rope in same place" Willaim explained to the professor.

Ariella raised her hand. "I remember reading something about a muggle magician known for his platform magic. His name was Harry Houdini, and he was famous for his disappearing acts. One of his acts included him in a milk can filled with water. He escaped by secretly climbing behind the curtain." She restrained herself from yawning. Learning about muggle magic made her bored. It was clearly not real and not interesting at all.

Oh, great. This was why Sierra hated Muggle Studies class. They were always asked to provide suggestions on Muggle things she'd never experienced before. The only Close Up Magic tricks she'd ever heard of were the ones the professor just explained.

She raised her hand. "Professor, I'm a pureblood witch. I've never..." She trailed off. She hated admitting failure, and that's what she saw this as.

"Eww," Sierra whispered to herself. She eyed the rest of the video with disgust. "They just diffindo'ed that man..." Again, she rolled her eyes. She had very, very little experiences with Muggles and their way of living, so how was she meant to provide an answer to this? She raised her hand again. "Okay, so, I don't know any platform magic. I'm a pureblood witch, and I've just never had many experiences with the Muggle way of doing things," she said. "...but, umm, yeah. They just diffindo'ed that man..."

Or, at least, that's what it looked like to her.

Nima let out a small giggle when she heard Sierra's "answer". That magician in the video definitely didn't diffindo anything! It was magic, the awesome muggle kind that everyone made fun of earlier. Bet they don't think it's so "stupid" now. She then bounced up and down raising her hand to answer. "Well I saw this one magician once and he layed down on a bed of pins and then when he got up he was scratch free!" She wanted to try, but her mother had held her back. "I even touched the pins to see if they were sharp and they were just like any regular pins!"

Ooooh, van-tree-low-key-zoom. Wizards should really adopt that same type of magic, it was very interesting and it could be useful. You know, if you're lonely you can always talk to the doll. Eino would look into it. He knew a spell that would animate inanimate objects but he had never heard of one that makes them talk.

He didn't really know much about muggle magic, and he had never gone to a magic show. All of the things he knew about magic came from the light box he had when he was ten, but his parents got rid of it when he almost electrified himself to death by trying to give it a bath. He raised his hand. "I've seen a man put a woman in a cage, then he throws a cloth over her, and when he removes the cloth she has been transfigured into a tiger!" Was that platform magic? Well, it was performed on a platform, so why wouldn't it be.

Now platform magic?

As far as Helena knew, THIS was something completely fake. Or at least most of the things. "How about those people who make their heatbeats slower, and they stay under water, some in chains, for minutes?" Pretty lame, in her opinion. "Or maybe they use a Bubble-head charm."

Yup. That was the trick. Busteeeeed!

Ness thought for a while again, she then remembered the show she had once been too, there was amazing things the magician had done that day, like he brought somone from the audience, made her draw something, and then without looking at alll he drew the exact same thing, but there was something much better on Nessies mind to tell the class. She raised her hand and waited her turn."Well proffessor many magicians, get a volounteer to come up, and then the magician will hypnotise them and make them do silly things, and then when he wakes them they remember nothing." said Ness hoping what she said as an example was after all platform magic. She listened to the others and then the Proffessor, for the next question.

Audrey had been soaking this all in. She raised her hand. "I have also heard of Criss Angel. He can cause the illusion of going through a window without breaking the glass. He puts a sheet of paper in front of the wind and slowly goes through the window and paper. The paper rips but the window is not damaged in any way."

Gwen listened to the others talk, while she tried thinking of an example. From where could I know this? I've never seen a muggle magic show... What example?Hmmm..., she continued thinking, but nothing came to her mind.

'Maybe...Um... I think there is something called... 'The Miser's Dream'. That's a trick where a seemingly endless supply of coins is produced from thin air' I guess... But- from where do I know this??!?

Aiden listens carefully to other answers. Next, she stares blankly at her laps and thinks for a while. Suddenly, she recalls a muggle magic trick that she had heard of and decides to tell about it. "There is a trick that I have heard of. The "magician"'s assistant gets into a box. Then, the magician will pierce multiple swords from every area of the box. Finally, the assistant comes out unharmed." Aiden wonders what are the tricks behind it. From what she knows, it is impossible to survive that kind of acts.

Aurora raised her hand. "There was that muggle who stayed in a thing of ice for hours... but he might have just been insane..." she said. But then again, most muggle 'magicians' were probably insane anyway...

So this is where most purebloods don't answer much right? Jonathan knew about muggles and their magic tricks and stuffs like that but Jonathan has never seen any of those in real life. He has grew up and lived his whole life in the wizarding world. His parents, although have come across many muggles.... but apparently not him.

As the professor kept asking questions, if they could give examples about close up magic tricks or platform magic, Jonathan just sat there not knowing whether to answer or not. Although, he still takes notes of everything the professor writes on the board.

Jonathan watched as the professor played the really wicked and at the same time odd muggle magic trick. "What the bloody---" he frowned.

Did they? How could they? Uhm... Why?

Simon raised his hand. "Professor how about spending a month in a box without coming out?" Simon had no idea if that was magic or not but it was pretty cool.

Once more, Heather timidly raised her hand. Really. She was getting used to having to participate more by reciting and this made her feel really good...of course, even better when the professor agrees or says she said the correct answer. Praise is good for the soul at times. "Uhm...there was this trick called 'ZigZag girl'." Now how did Heather know of that? Of course she knew. For a brief background check, her 'muggle' cousins were fanatics of muggle magic tricks; the second of three cousins being the most inclined to performing such at family functions (only the basic things, he would add.) She remembered him telling her various things about muggle magic tricks, one to which he would usually tell to either scare her off or to see the glimmer of amazement in her eyes.

She tried to remember what her cousin told her about the magic trick called 'ZigZag Girl'. It was strongly the same as of the one the professor just showed. The video she just made them watch made her a bit sick though; wizard and witch magic were a lot safer and friendlier (depending on how it is used.) but muggles....they're just plain crazy, edging on to the extremes as if they already have a death wish. Seriously. Sawing a man in half...and seeing that he's still moving is quite...disturbing.

How do they even do that?

"The trick called ZigZag girl is similar to that...show." Heather tried not to think too much about it; in any case, it made her so sick she wanted to throw up, but she remained calm. "I think it goes something like...the magician's assistant is placed inside a box...and the assistant is...cut...into three parts and the middle part is slid apart from the upper and lower part so that the box gives a look of a zigzag." Ugh.cutting people in half-CRAZY. And if that wasn't horrible enough... "and the magician calls on an audience...t-to...to touch the assistant inside, sort of like to prove it's real, when it's not and is just an illusion" sick, just sick.

She could really feel herself getting sicker every second as she thought about it. In fact, whatever she ate before class started was really attempting to go up and make her throw up. No way. not during class.

OOOH TELLY TIME. Yes the muggle in her was deffinatley fascianted by watching telly. Very. She watched it in awe. Like serious awe. It was amazing and stuff but Amy had seen one a few months ago on telly. And Darren Brown was scarier. Amy breathed a sigh of relief when everyone survived the trick and the telly went up.

Oh. Bye bye telly *cry*

Amy put her hand up, and then back down, she wasn't sure if what she was about to say was magic but it was BLOODY brilliant. And scary. And could go wrong. Houdinni was proof of that. Yes. Amy nodded to herself as she noted down the stuff on the board before putting up her own hand, professor what about the one where people are like chained up in bags and stuff and have to escape in like 30 seconds or they die. OR the one where-

No. Amy couldn't remember.

It was the one with water. And swapping. But that was all she could remember

Penny thought about the question for a moment...having been brought up as a muggle she had watched a fair amount of telly when she was smaller...

Putting her hand in the air, she said confidently "Professor, I remember one English guy who did loads of 'magic' tricks...I think he was called Paul Daniels"