Originally Posted by city_girl_95 (Post 10451194)

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

Originally Posted by PandaGirl (Post 10451183)

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.

Originally Posted by hjhm (Post 10451105)

Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn (Post 10451064)

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...

Originally Posted by sevensnared (Post 10450725)

Originally Posted by Quick Quotes Quill (Post 10450714)

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??!?

Originally Posted by aidan (Post 10450694)

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."

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh (Post 10450680)

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.

Originally Posted by nogoodforyou (Post 10450432)

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!

Originally Posted by Starbreeze (Post 10450421)

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.

Originally Posted by ArianaBlack (Post 10450380)

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!"

Originally Posted by MagicGlitter (Post 10450332)

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.

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley (Post 10450292)

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.

Originally Posted by top94a (Post 10450278)

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.

Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe (Post 10450272)

Originally Posted by emmafan123 (Post 10450259)

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.

Originally Posted by Kimalia (Post 10450249)

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."

Originally Posted by i-am-thorr (Post 10450242)

Originally Posted by Imsosikk07 (Post 10452116)

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.

Originally Posted by Magical Soul (Post 10451924)

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.

Originally Posted by MagicGlitter (Post 10451793)

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?

Originally Posted by city_girl_95 (Post 10451631)

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

Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn (Post 10451571)

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...

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 10451563)

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."

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley (Post 10451544)

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.

Originally Posted by Fred is awesome (Post 10451521)

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.

Originally Posted by aidan (Post 10451519)

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."

Originally Posted by ArianaBlack (Post 10451515)

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!

Originally Posted by Kimalia (Post 10451502)

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?"

Originally Posted by nogoodforyou (Post 10451432)

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.

Originally Posted by PandaGirl (Post 10451382)

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.

Originally Posted by Starbreeze (Post 10451380)

"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.

Originally Posted by emmafan123 (Post 10451349)

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.

Originally Posted by elllla_Wtwins (Post 10451320)