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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." |
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. |
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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. Link to a Video: 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 "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. |
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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!" |
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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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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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??!? |
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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... |
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" |
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