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The History of Magic Classroom has once again taken on a new look since the last lesson! The HOM and Muggle Studies Professors have joined together to create a full theatre stage at the front of the classroom. The chairs in the audience all have fold out desks for the students to use.
SPOILER!!: Theatre
On the stage, there is the usual HOM charmed chalkboard that Professor Cerulean uses at every lesson. There is a spot light shining on the chalkboard. Scattered around the stage are objects and tables covered with white and black table cloths to keep their secrets hidden. Each hidden object is spotlighted with a different color spotlight. These hidden objects are of different shapes and sizes across the stage.
Please feel free to sit wherever you would like. As you come in, please grab a drink and a magic themed (top hat, rabbit, star shaped) cookie from the table as you enter the theatre/classroom.
Professor Cerelean has written a message on the board that is enchanted to scribble out in a curly but readable handwriting and stay for a few minutes and then erase and start again:
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Abracadabra...Alacazam!!!!
Welcome to a Night of Magic!!!!
Please have a seat and grab a cookie and drink as you enter!
Professor Cerulean is no where to be found, but remember she is watching.
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Please come in and have a seat. You may chat but keep it to a minimum. Remember that when class starts, you need to cut out chatting. Also don't post yourself coming in late, Gemma hates late arrivals and will not give you a warning, she will deduct points from the first time you are late.
I'm going to give you a few hours to get settled so I'll see you a in a little while!!! *huggles you all*
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~*Lesson Quick Links*~ (Will be updated as we go so you can find the Professor's links quickly and easily)
Please feel free to catch up at any time during the lesson. I don't mind if you post with answers to all of the missed questions at once or if you just wanna jump in where we are at and catch up later or just jump in where we are at. Whatever you want to do is fine with me....JUST don't post yourself coming in late to class that's a NO NO!
SPOILER!!: Great examples!!! Some of these I had never heard of or even though about.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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...
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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.
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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??!?
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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."
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
Gemma smiled at the girl. "Sierra, you are doing just fine. That's why I'm introducing this kind of stuff to you all so you can have an idea that it's out there...no worries..." she said with a little nod up and down and then got excited when the girl had seen the magic in the trick, "You are correct...it does look like he diffindo'ed him...but nope it was an illusion...many of these tricks resemble one of our incantations...it almost makes you think where they got the idea from or where we got the idea from...maybe each of magics was influenced by the other sometime in the past. " she beamed at the Slythie's realization. She was hoping someone would see a link.
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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.
The professor smiled at the boy, "Well, I'm not really sure if that counts as magic...I think that just counts as wanting attention. I mean most of the time those kind of people have someone else lock them in the box and then they try to escape or really do anything amazing while in the box..."
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She flicked her wand and again the list on the board was updated.
SPOILER!!: Examples of Platform Magic
"I believe someone mentioned Criss Angel...." she nodded towards the two students that had brought him up and with a flick of her wand an almost see-through picture of the man appeared at the end of the stage. It looked as if you could stick your hand through it but it was still thick enough for you to see the picture.
SPOILER!!: Criss Angel
"Thank you for mentioning him...Criss Angel was a pioneer in platform magic. He was always pushing the boundaries of illusion and even had a show on the Muggle's Las Vegas Strip for a while. I have a few videos of some of his tricks as well if you are interested..." she paused and then continued, "He was so talented that the Ministry issued a wizard work in his entourage to make sure that he wasn't a wizard using magic inappropriately or breaking the Secrecy Act...after a long investigation it was discovered that he was truly one of the most talented Platform Magicians."
She flicked her wand and the purple curtain disappear off of the table. On the table were smaller versions of many of the props needed for the tricks mentioned. Each of these props she had shrunk down with a charm so the students could see them. There were swords, and boxes, and straight jackets, and long chains with locks on them, and a water chamber, etc.
The professor flicked her wand again and the screen appeared again at the front of the stage. "Our last type of Muggle Magic Tricks, which is very tricky, is called stage magic. Such performances are done quite rarely but when performed, they can become one great magic extravaganza. Such type includes making the statue of liberty disappear or walking through the Great Wall of China. " she flicked the lights off and as the video started explained, "This trick is in the Muggle Guiness Book of World Records for being the largest item to ever disappear...it is pretty amazing and is performed by the most talented Stage Magician, David Copperfield."
After the video ended the screen once again disappeared, "Has anyone seen someone perform this type of magic trick before? Or can anyone give me another example of some amazing Stage Magic?"
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Thea simply blinked. She had never really seen any magic tricks. Well.. apart from her FAther and brothers etc when she was little but that was well.. real magic wasn't it?
Leaning forward, she rested her chin on her hands. Meh.
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Kurumi's hand shot up. "There is an American magician by the name of Franz Harary who vanished a space shutter in front of a live audience." Kurumi looked around at her classmates and wondered just how many people actually knew what a space shuttle was. "But...Professor, are we really sure that all these magicians that performed these amazing tricks were really non-magical? Couldn't they have been witches or wizards just trying to live among the non-magical population?" After all, magicians never revealed their tricks and some of the people mentioned, especially Crisis Angel, could very well be real wizards.
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Alfie listened to Professor Cerulean with thoughtful interest on her expression, one hand resting delicately beneath her chin as her large blue eyes took in the lesson. It was definitely an interesting topic, and the girl didn't miss the hint as the HOM Professor suggested that maybe each form of magic had influenced one another in the past. Wow. It was really strange to think of some point in the past in which muggle magic and wizard magic were similar to one another, to the point of influencing each other in one way or another. During the video, Alfie watched with curiosity on her expression, listening as the Professor explained what kind of trick this was and how it was the largest thing to ever disappear in history.
As she asked the class for more examples, the blonde thought for a moment, trying to fully understand what this type of magic was. Just...making large things disappear? Unfortunately, the girl couldn't remember ever experiencing or even hearing very much about this kind of magic trick. So she remained silent, watching the room thoughtfully as she waited for someone else to raise their hand and suggest something.
"There's a Finnish magician called Simo Aalto who conjures birds!" Eino said with his hand raised. "I saw him in the light box when I was little. My mom said he wasn't a real wizard, but I still think he is." He added the lowered his hand. He didn't understand how someone could conjure birds from a purse but not be a real wizard. It was the same thing as their magic, except that Simo Aalto didn't use a wand. Other than that he didn't know any other muggle magic.
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Stage magic? Now what did her cousin show her that is stage magic? She racked her brains for a solid answer; it had been a long time since she had been told by some of these stuff and Heather tends to be forgetful.
What was that trick called again that she was told was stage magic? Something to do with levitating...levitating...and then disappearing, seeing as it seems, the approach to know stage magic was about disappearing. But she was aware of its difference from the platform magic kind, or so she thought.
going back to that one trick...it had a weird name for starters-if only she could remember the day her cousin had showed her that video on his...what was it? a computer; no, it was a laptop. Oh chocohips! It was a muggle gadget, that's what it is. AH! Got it! That trick really blew her mind when she saw it.
"Professor." she raised her hand. "uhm...i'm not quite sure, but i really think this would pass up as stage magic...there's this one trick...i think it's called the 'Asrah Levitation'." well, she wasn't sure if it really was the Asrah-whatever the asrah means. "It's performed by..uhm...oh, , by hypnotizing the assistant to lie down on a table, i think...and draped with white cloth and slowly lifted as if the person underneath is really levitating...and once the hypnotized person is put back down on the table, he or she suddenly disappears underneath the cloth." she answered with a very nervous smile. WEll, to be perfectly honest, she wasn't quite sure if it is stage magic or not, no matter how much she can trust her source-which is her memory and her visit to her cousins.
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After the video ended the screen once again disappeared, "Has anyone seen someone perform this type of magic trick before? Or can anyone give me another example of some amazing Stage Magic?"
Helena watched the whole video with that muggle magic or whatever it was, but she felt kind of... bored. Seriously. What did that man do? Just vanish the Statue of Liberty. Hehe. And... what if there were some superheroes behind that curtain that moved the statue and then brought it back? All he did was wave his hands at a curtain. Yup. Definitely not impressing.
As for professor Cerulean's question... Helena had no idea. She had heard about those smaller tricks, but these kind... nahh.
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Kimalia raised her eyebrow at the disappearance being performed, it was impressive how easily fooled but yet intelligent one muggle magician had to be to fool regular muggles. "There is plenty of stage disappearances, not as great as making a whole monument disappear, but making animals, humans disappear." Kimalia had an idea in her head formed, what if they secretly were muggle-born wizards who confunded the audience. "Professor, what about those muggles who hypnotize people, isn't that some form of muggle magic as well, or are they just secretly using the Imperius curse?"
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Nika stood up and clapped for the magician in the video. The whole statue of liberty! That was amazing! Then the next question and Nika began to wave her arm around again. "Once when I was watching this magic show thing on TV and the magician levitated a car!" Did that count as stage magic?..... She beamed as she looked at her professor. This class is awesome!
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Audrey raised her hand again. She was a huge Criss Angel fan. "Criss Angel broke a world record in 2010 when he had 100 people handcuffed together by their feet and arms, and in front of a raised stage with a live audience made all 100 of them vanish."
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Rose raised her hand. 'There were two men, and they locked one of them, forced to wear a tutu, in the box, and the first man opens the box and a lady comes out and she's got the tutu on, and then the man in the box comes out from the top of the stairs!' Rose grinned remembering her watching this on T.V. in her house.
William raised his han d. " The most famous Escape Artist had a great Stage Magic trick" William told the professor. " His name was Harry Houdini" William said to the professor.It is called "The OverBoard Box Escape" William smiled. " Houdiniwould be locked in a create while he had leg irons and handcuffs on his hands,the crate was nailed shut, everyone could see him because of a Mahogony box that was a seeable, the crate was two hundred pounds and was lowered into water" William explained to the professor. " Waot, there is more, William added for dramatic effect, Houdini escaped in less than two minutees with the mannacles still inside the crate, hw did this trick in his shows, but he did it also in New York in one of the city's waterways." Willaim finished explaining his example to the professor.
Selina rose her hand and said interested, "Well this one time I saw a Magician pull a hanky out of his wand and the more her pulled the more hankys were attached to the end of the previous one. Until, at the end of the trick, all of the clothes streamed together spelled vanish. And when he dropped it to the floor it vanished right in front of everyone's eyes."
Aurora raised her hand. "I guess you could vanish stuff, or make stuff look like it's blowing up or something." she said. She wasn't sure why you'd want to...
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Amy put up her hand. She loved this lesson. I don't know if this would count professor, but, she continued, I saw on telly. Yes, telly, get over it, a guy called Derren Brown, and it was really weird because he did some sort of trick through the telly and this was 100% genuine, when he said that "you can't get up", I genuinley couldn't get up. She had been awed. Awed and creeped out.
So would that be magic, or just forcing an idea into someone's head so they believe it, like the opposite of subliminal messaging?
But of course you have the box twirl so like someone goes in the box and then the box is turned around and they aren't there anymore and they re turn it and they're back
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Ariella's hand shot up into the air. "Well, one time I was walking around London doing some shopping. And I saw this street magician who disappeared a car right in front of everyone's eyes. It was quite strange.....but I'm pretty sure I know how he did it." Well that sounded kind of stupid. Why would anyone care how a muggle disappeared a car using fake magic?
Louisa's eyes stared at the screen 'wow'ing and 'oh'ing at the right places. When the professor explained and asked for an example, she had to think for a moment before raising her hand, "I saw David Copperfield doing a huge stunt on stage." It was on tv really but people were at the theater so.. ".. he gets into a big bag with a camera inside, locked with small locks and chains.." she paused wondering whether or not to explain what a camera was. Meh. That video they'd just seen was made by a camera, no? ".. then the assistant hangs the bag over a big plate of sharp knives. A timer goes on and David has to get out of the locks in a minute before the bag opens and he falls to his doom" She stood up so absorbed into her story, " And when there's about five seconds left, he shouts help and claims that there is something wrong with his locks but they have no time for any adjustments so.." She lowers her voice for dramatic effects, ".. BAM! The bag opens and something falls on top of the knives and people shout!" Another dramatic pause. She moved her gaze around the stage-class to see if her classmates were impressed or not. Then, "But suddenly he comes from behind the audience intact." She grinned as if talking about one of HER tricks. "I never knew how he does that. But it's pretty cool." She nodded before sitting back down.
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Sierra watched the presentation, completely unamused that some man had made the Statue of Liberty disappear. She'd seen tons of things disappear before, and so had everyone else--even the Muggleborns sitting in this very room. Again, she had absolutely no idea about any type of Muggle magicians and their silly magic tricks, but she did know a lot about making things disappear.
She raised her hand. "I've never seen anyone perform it as just a trick, but that's like our Evanesco," she said, bringing up the spell witches and wizards use to make things disappear. "Just like that other man performed a trick similar to Diffindo." She shrugged. She had no idea about any Muggle magic tricks that would relate to what they'd just seen.
SPOILER!!: Great examples!!! Some of these I had never heard of or even though about.
Gemma smiled at the girl. "Sierra, you are doing just fine. That's why I'm introducing this kind of stuff to you all so you can have an idea that it's out there...no worries..." she said with a little nod up and down and then got excited when the girl had seen the magic in the trick, "You are correct...it does look like he diffindo'ed him...but nope it was an illusion...many of these tricks resemble one of our incantations...it almost makes you think where they got the idea from or where we got the idea from...maybe each of magics was influenced by the other sometime in the past. " she beamed at the Slythie's realization. She was hoping someone would see a link.
The professor smiled at the boy, "Well, I'm not really sure if that counts as magic...I think that just counts as wanting attention. I mean most of the time those kind of people have someone else lock them in the box and then they try to escape or really do anything amazing while in the box..."
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She flicked her wand and again the list on the board was updated.
SPOILER!!: Examples of Platform Magic
"I believe someone mentioned Criss Angel...." she nodded towards the two students that had brought him up and with a flick of her wand an almost see-through picture of the man appeared at the end of the stage. It looked as if you could stick your hand through it but it was still thick enough for you to see the picture.
SPOILER!!: Criss Angel
"Thank you for mentioning him...Criss Angel was a pioneer in platform magic. He was always pushing the boundaries of illusion and even had a show on the Muggle's Las Vegas Strip for a while. I have a few videos of some of his tricks as well if you are interested..." she paused and then continued, "He was so talented that the Ministry issued a wizard work in his entourage to make sure that he wasn't a wizard using magic inappropriately or breaking the Secrecy Act...after a long investigation it was discovered that he was truly one of the most talented Platform Magicians."
She flicked her wand and the purple curtain disappear off of the table. On the table were smaller versions of many of the props needed for the tricks mentioned. Each of these props she had shrunk down with a charm so the students could see them. There were swords, and boxes, and straight jackets, and long chains with locks on them, and a water chamber, etc.
The professor flicked her wand again and the screen appeared again at the front of the stage. "Our last type of Muggle Magic Tricks, which is very tricky, is called stage magic. Such performances are done quite rarely but when performed, they can become one great magic extravaganza. Such type includes making the statue of liberty disappear or walking through the Great Wall of China. " she flicked the lights off and as the video started explained, "This trick is in the Muggle Guiness Book of World Records for being the largest item to ever disappear...it is pretty amazing and is performed by the most talented Stage Magician, David Copperfield."
After the video ended the screen once again disappeared, "Has anyone seen someone perform this type of magic trick before? Or can anyone give me another example of some amazing Stage Magic?"
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Elektra knew a lot about David Copperfield. You could call her a magician nerd for David Copperfield and Harry Houdini. As she watched the video, her eyes lit up and she smiled. "Woah..." she said softly to herself. When the video was over she heard the professor's question and Elektra thought for a moment and then she raised her hand. "I remember watching this man he- he was doing something on a stage and then out of nowhere this woman went through his body. I swear I have never seen anything like it before. I still can't explain how he did it, but everytime I think about I feel like I'm going to throw up." She shudders remembering it and then sits back in her seat.
SPOILER!!: Wow, I had never even heard of some these crazy tricks...thank you everyone for sharing...some of these are crazy and I had to look up videos to see what you were talking about...some are even kind of freaky/scary...
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Elektra knew a lot about David Copperfield. You could call her a magician nerd for David Copperfield and Harry Houdini. As she watched the video, her eyes lit up and she smiled. "Woah..." she said softly to herself. When the video was over she heard the professor's question and Elektra thought for a moment and then she raised her hand. "I remember watching this man he- he was doing something on a stage and then out of nowhere this woman went through his body. I swear I have never seen anything like it before. I still can't explain how he did it, but everytime I think about I feel like I'm going to throw up." She shudders remembering it and then sits back in her seat.
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Louisa's eyes stared at the screen 'wow'ing and 'oh'ing at the right places. When the professor explained and asked for an example, she had to think for a moment before raising her hand, "I saw David Copperfield doing a huge stunt on stage." It was on tv really but people were at the theater so.. ".. he gets into a big bag with a camera inside, locked with small locks and chains.." she paused wondering whether or not to explain what a camera was. Meh. That video they'd just seen was made by a camera, no? ".. then the assistant hangs the bag over a big plate of sharp knives. A timer goes on and David has to get out of the locks in a minute before the bag opens and he falls to his doom" She stood up so absorbed into her story, " And when there's about five seconds left, he shouts help and claims that there is something wrong with his locks but they have no time for any adjustments so.." She lowers her voice for dramatic effects, ".. BAM! The bag opens and something falls on top of the knives and people shout!" Another dramatic pause. She moved her gaze around the stage-class to see if her classmates were impressed or not. Then, "But suddenly he comes from behind the audience intact." She grinned as if talking about one of HER tricks. "I never knew how he does that. But it's pretty cool." She nodded before sitting back down.
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Ariella's hand shot up into the air. "Well, one time I was walking around London doing some shopping. And I saw this street magician who disappeared a car right in front of everyone's eyes. It was quite strange.....but I'm pretty sure I know how he did it." Well that sounded kind of stupid. Why would anyone care how a muggle disappeared a car using fake magic?
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Amy put up her hand. She loved this lesson. I don't know if this would count professor, but, she continued, I saw on telly. Yes, telly, get over it, a guy called Derren Brown, and it was really weird because he did some sort of trick through the telly and this was 100% genuine, when he said that "you can't get up", I genuinley couldn't get up. She had been awed. Awed and creeped out.
So would that be magic, or just forcing an idea into someone's head so they believe it, like the opposite of subliminal messaging?
But of course you have the box twirl so like someone goes in the box and then the box is turned around and they aren't there anymore and they re turn it and they're back
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Aurora raised her hand. "I guess you could vanish stuff, or make stuff look like it's blowing up or something." she said. She wasn't sure why you'd want to...
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Selina rose her hand and said interested, "Well this one time I saw a Magician pull a hanky out of his wand and the more her pulled the more hankys were attached to the end of the previous one. Until, at the end of the trick, all of the clothes streamed together spelled vanish. And when he dropped it to the floor it vanished right in front of everyone's eyes."
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William raised his han d. " The most famous Escape Artist had a great Stage Magic trick" William told the professor. " His name was Harry Houdini" William said to the professor.It is called "The OverBoard Box Escape" William smiled. " Houdiniwould be locked in a create while he had leg irons and handcuffs on his hands,the crate was nailed shut, everyone could see him because of a Mahogony box that was a seeable, the crate was two hundred pounds and was lowered into water" William explained to the professor. " Waot, there is more, William added for dramatic effect, Houdini escaped in less than two minutees with the mannacles still inside the crate, hw did this trick in his shows, but he did it also in New York in one of the city's waterways." Willaim finished explaining his example to the professor.
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Rose raised her hand. 'There were two men, and they locked one of them, forced to wear a tutu, in the box, and the first man opens the box and a lady comes out and she's got the tutu on, and then the man in the box comes out from the top of the stairs!' Rose grinned remembering her watching this on T.V. in her house.
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Audrey raised her hand again. She was a huge Criss Angel fan. "Criss Angel broke a world record in 2010 when he had 100 people handcuffed together by their feet and arms, and in front of a raised stage with a live audience made all 100 of them vanish."
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Nika stood up and clapped for the magician in the video. The whole statue of liberty! That was amazing! Then the next question and Nika began to wave her arm around again. "Once when I was watching this magic show thing on TV and the magician levitated a car!" Did that count as stage magic?..... She beamed as she looked at her professor. This class is awesome!
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Kimalia raised her eyebrow at the disappearance being performed, it was impressive how easily fooled but yet intelligent one muggle magician had to be to fool regular muggles. "There is plenty of stage disappearances, not as great as making a whole monument disappear, but making animals, humans disappear." Kimalia had an idea in her head formed, what if they secretly were muggle-born wizards who confunded the audience. "Professor, what about those muggles who hypnotize people, isn't that some form of muggle magic as well, or are they just secretly using the Imperius curse?"
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Helena watched the whole video with that muggle magic or whatever it was, but she felt kind of... bored. Seriously. What did that man do? Just vanish the Statue of Liberty. Hehe. And... what if there were some superheroes behind that curtain that moved the statue and then brought it back? All he did was wave his hands at a curtain. Yup. Definitely not impressing.
As for professor Cerulean's question... Helena had no idea. She had heard about those smaller tricks, but these kind... nahh.
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Stage magic? Now what did her cousin show her that is stage magic? She racked her brains for a solid answer; it had been a long time since she had been told by some of these stuff and Heather tends to be forgetful.
What was that trick called again that she was told was stage magic? Something to do with levitating...levitating...and then disappearing, seeing as it seems, the approach to know stage magic was about disappearing. But she was aware of its difference from the platform magic kind, or so she thought.
going back to that one trick...it had a weird name for starters-if only she could remember the day her cousin had showed her that video on his...what was it? a computer; no, it was a laptop. Oh chocohips! It was a muggle gadget, that's what it is. AH! Got it! That trick really blew her mind when she saw it.
"Professor." she raised her hand. "uhm...i'm not quite sure, but i really think this would pass up as stage magic...there's this one trick...i think it's called the 'Asrah Levitation'." well, she wasn't sure if it really was the Asrah-whatever the asrah means. "It's performed by..uhm...oh, , by hypnotizing the assistant to lie down on a table, i think...and draped with white cloth and slowly lifted as if the person underneath is really levitating...and once the hypnotized person is put back down on the table, he or she suddenly disappears underneath the cloth." she answered with a very nervous smile. WEll, to be perfectly honest, she wasn't quite sure if it is stage magic or not, no matter how much she can trust her source-which is her memory and her visit to her cousins.
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"There's a Finnish magician called Simo Aalto who conjures birds!" Eino said with his hand raised. "I saw him in the light box when I was little. My mom said he wasn't a real wizard, but I still think he is." He added the lowered his hand. He didn't understand how someone could conjure birds from a purse but not be a real wizard. It was the same thing as their magic, except that Simo Aalto didn't use a wand. Other than that he didn't know any other muggle magic.
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Alfie listened to Professor Cerulean with thoughtful interest on her expression, one hand resting delicately beneath her chin as her large blue eyes took in the lesson. It was definitely an interesting topic, and the girl didn't miss the hint as the HOM Professor suggested that maybe each form of magic had influenced one another in the past. Wow. It was really strange to think of some point in the past in which muggle magic and wizard magic were similar to one another, to the point of influencing each other in one way or another. During the video, Alfie watched with curiosity on her expression, listening as the Professor explained what kind of trick this was and how it was the largest thing to ever disappear in history.
As she asked the class for more examples, the blonde thought for a moment, trying to fully understand what this type of magic was. Just...making large things disappear? Unfortunately, the girl couldn't remember ever experiencing or even hearing very much about this kind of magic trick. So she remained silent, watching the room thoughtfully as she waited for someone else to raise their hand and suggest something.
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Thea simply blinked. She had never really seen any magic tricks. Well.. apart from her FAther and brothers etc when she was little but that was well.. real magic wasn't it?
Leaning forward, she rested her chin on her hands. Meh.
Gemma smiled and shook her head with every answer and the chalk board behind her kept a list of the magic examples.
SPOILER!!: Examples of Stage Magic
She smiled at the list very impressed with all of the examples given. She hadn't even heard of all of them and had to admit that she was excited to do some research on the ones that were new to her.
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"But...Professor, are we really sure that all these magicians that performed these amazing tricks were really non-magical? Couldn't they have been witches or wizards just trying to live among the non-magical population?" After all, magicians never revealed their tricks and some of the people mentioned, especially Crisis Angel, could very well be real wizards.
"Karumi, you do bring up a great point. Like I mentioned before when I spoke about Criss Angel....sometimes Muggle Magicians start getting too talented and too much attention and the Ministry will place someone undercover within their entorouage to check everything out." she paused and then continued, "But to my knowledge none of the more recent Muggle Magicians have turned out to be truly wizards. If they had they would've had a public trial for breaking the Secrecy Act....but there are many that say that Houdini, whom is one of the most famous Muggle Magicians, was truly a wizard, but that was before the Ministry did undercover checking...it kind of makes you think." she said with a little nod up and down.
"And as many of you have shared with your examples...magic tricks sometimes don't just fall into one category from the board...they can be a combination of the different categories..." she said acknowledging some of the answers that could be in more than one column.
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She raised her hand. "I've never seen anyone perform it as just a trick, but that's like our Evanesco," she said, bringing up the spell witches and wizards use to make things disappear. "Just like that other man performed a trick similar to Diffindo." She shrugged. She had no idea about any Muggle magic tricks that would relate to what they'd just seen.
The professor was excited to see the Slythie actually seeming to find a little bit of interest in the lesson since the last two times she hadn't' really seemed interested too much. She beamed at the young girl, "Once again you bring up two great points about the tricks being very similar to our incantations....points for Slythie..." she paused and then glanced out at all the other students and then continued...this was the perfect introduction to her next question.
"Like Sierra has pointed out that some of the magic tricks that the muggles take part in remind her of a few of our common and some of our not so common incantations." she let that sink in for a few seconds as the walked over the last table and flicked her wand. On the table were about fifteen moving picture frames. Inside each picture frame a movie of a stage magic trick was playing.
"There had to be a point in both the Muggle histories and Wizard histories where each form of magic had to be influenced by the other. It's very interesting to think that at some point in the past both forms of magic were similar to one another, to the point of influencing each other in one way or another. it almost makes you think where they got the idea from or where we got the idea from...maybe each of magics was influenced by the other sometime in the past... " she realized that she was kind of rambling and then focused back in on her ultimate point....the next question.
"Let's take a look at our list of magical tricks that everyone has shared..." she turned towards the board and reviewed it quickly.
SPOILER!!: Complete List of Examples of all three magics
She turned back towards the students, "So looking at that list and thinking about the three incantations that Sierra has mentioned, can you think of some other incantations or charms that relate to the Magic Tricks we've listed?"
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Kurumi wrinkled her nose a bit. Seemed like Professor Cerulean was always mispronouncing her name or writing it wrong on the board. Maybe she should come up with a nickname that was easier to remember? There were an awful lot of students in classes so perhaps she got confused?
A slight frown on her lips, Kurumi tugged at the edges of her hood for a moment to make sure that none of her hair was showing. She suddenly was feeling even more awkward than she already had.
Slowly, she raised her hand. "I am sure the Disillusionment Charm could be applied to any of those vanishing tricks mentioned," she began before cocking her head to the side in confusion. Something wasn't making the connection in her head at the moment. "P-Professor, I thought you said that all magicians were non-magical though," she said timidly not wanting to offend, but simply seeking clarification as to why they were brainstorming magical methods behind these tricks when Professor Cerulean had already said that none of them were witches and wizards. "They wouldn't have been able to perform charms or other incantations."
Or was she completely missing something?
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She had no clue muggles could do such things. Actually, she didn't know muggles would actually believe other muggles were magical. Wait, what's what they thought right?
...Eh.
Sitting quietly in her seat, she looked at the board and went down the lists. Stabbing people with swords? Car disappearing? Catching a bullet in your teeth? What the heck was a bullet!? "Couldn't the people disappearing and reappearing in another place...happen with someone who mastered the geminio spell?" Could that spell even be used on humans? "Or they could just apparate." The second idea seemed more likely.
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Hmm.
Apparently, she'd just said something really awesome. ...and here she was sitting here thinking she was lost, confused, and otherwise without hope in this joint Muggle Studies class. She looked over the list. She'd tuned out half the things listed there. She'd been lost and really only focused on the videos. Hypnotism. She knew that one, though.
She raised her hand. "Would hypnotism be sort of like the Imperius Curse?" she asked. "Just, you know, not quite as bad." She'd never been hypnotised before, imperiused either, so what did she really know, hmm?
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She turned back towards the students, "So looking at that list and thinking about the three incantations that Sierra has mentioned, can you think of some other incantations or charms that relate to the Magic Tricks we've listed?"
Finally! A little bit of wizard magic!
Helena took a look at the list, then raised her hand. "The Bubble Head charm for the one chained underwater." And she was sure that those people were surely wizards. Hehe.
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