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As you enter the Muggle Studies classroom, you are instantly reminded, or introduced, to the fact that Professor Cerulean always tries to transform her class to match the lesson of the day.
The room is covered in large multicolored Muggle bean bags scattered all over the floor. These bean bags have been charmed with extra cushioning charm to make them even more comfortable. Beside each bean bag is a little lap desk for you to place in your lap and use for notes during the class. The floor feels extra cushiony as well although it seems to be the normal tile floor of all of the classrooms.
The walls and ceiling are draped with different bright colors of drapes. It's a little overwhelming but enchanting at the same time.
In the corner, there is a table of refreshments (something the Professor always tries to have at her lessons.). But this time the table is full of Muggle treats. There is a bowl of ice filled with various Muggle sodas from Cokes to Cherry Cokes to Dr. Peppers to Sprite, etc. Beside that bowl is another iced bowl full of bottles of various colored and flavored drinks labeled Gatorade. There are two other bowls on the table: one is full of mini Muggle chocolate candies from Snickers to Twix to Milky Way bars to M&Ms, etc.; the other is full of more chewy flavors of Muggle candy such as Skittles, Dots, Jelly Beans, Twizzlers, etc. There are small bags at the end of the table for you to fill up with these goodies if you would like. Each of the four bowls is enchanted to automatically refill itself when it starts becoming low.
Various forms of Muggle music can be heard playing softly in the background. Anything from rock to pop to calm rap to R&B to Country can be heard in the mix.
There is a small raised platform at the front of the Muggle Studies classroom where a strange white board that looks like a chalkboard stands. It is known as a dry erase board and is a very Muggle inventions. Written on it in various colors of markers is a message from the Professor.
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Welcome to our first Muggle Studies Lesson!!!
Please come in and have a seat on one of the Bean Bags! Also don't forget to grab a few Muggle treats from the table of goodies!
Class will begin shortly!
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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!!! Class will officially start tomorrow morning when this mamma in waiting rolls out of bed.... *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!
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Harvey raised his hand
"Well I dont know the difference between the muggle world and the wizarding world since I am muggleborn. But I am going to guess that the wizarding world does not have what we muggles call Video Games.
They are games that are played on Television Screens via a little box called a console. You control these games via a controller which has many buttons and joysticks on them. You can get many different games for a console, action games, adventures games, puzzle games, skill games etc. I didnt see these consoles in Diagon Alley so I assume that you dont have them.
Also I saw this chess game someone was playing, your pieces actually move!! to where you tell them, we have to move them ourselves in our version of chess. You have moving pictures, we dont." Harvey liked this lesson, for once he may know all the answers in this class being a muggleborn.
She took a deep breath and then started, "Hello everyone!" she said excitedly as the chatting started to cease across the classroom. "And welcome to our first Muggle Studies class!" she said as she turned around and erased the dry erase board with her hand...no magic just used an eraser.
She turned back around with a smile, "For those that don't know me, I'm Professor Gemma Cerulean. This is my second year teaching at Hogwarts. Last year, I had the pleasure of teaching History of Magic. This is my first year teaching Muggle Studies and I am very excited to try to make this class and subject fun and interesting." she said with her usual soft voice and smile. "For my returning students, I am sooo excited to see you and I can't wait to hear how your breaks went and for us to have more fun, and more goodies, through the year in our classes..." she said motioning towards the table. "And speaking of goodies, if you haven't grabbed any or you run out, feel free to get up at any time and grab some goodies...I'm all about food and snacks making lessons more interesting..." she finished up with a little wink at the students.
"This class' main focus is on the Muggle world and their practices and traditions and their daily lives. It is set up to help us better understand the Muggle world and to help us better meld into the Muggle world if we ever need to have interaction." she said everything very matter of fact with a smile on her face. "However, this class is not set up for us to make fun of the Muggles or to criticize the Muggles, so if you feel that you cannot handle yourself as a mature student in this class, then I suggest you go ahead and politely excuse yourself." yes that was the nice way of saying we weren't going to have Muggle bashing she thought with a little nod and a serious look/glare out at the students.
"Because this is a Muggle Studies class, we are going to utilize a few Muggle classroom ways while in the class." she flicked her wand and little bags started flying out to each of the students. "I would like to ask that while in this class that you refrain from using magic. I will use it occasionally to pass out things or take notes and such but I want to ask that you refrain from using it unless I specifically ask or you receive permission from me." the bags slowly landed beside each of the students. "Inside each of these bags you will find a few Muggle classroom items for you to utilize while in the class and while doing homework." she grabbed a bag hovering over her head and pulled the drawstring to open it. She slowly reached inside and pulled out each item slowly, "A notebook full of lined paper...this is what Muggles use to take notes and such in stead of parchment...so from this point on no parchment is allowed in this classroom or for use in homework. There should be plenty of paper in this notebook for you to use for the year." she reached in and pulled out a handful of long plastic items, "These are pens. I have put a red, black, blue, purple, green, and pink pen in each bag. We will not need quills in this class. These pens have plenty of ink within them to use for the term." she reached inside one more time, "And these are pencils. They are similar to the pens, however, on this end..." she said pointing towards the pink softy end, "is what's called an eraser and it will erase any errors that you make when you turn it over and rub your paper with that end..." she said with a little nod and then laid each of the items out on her desk at the front of the class.
She let the students examine the items for a few moments and then continued, "Okay let's get this lesson officially started..." she said excitedly as she turned towards the dry erase board and picked up a marker. As she spoke she wrote the first question on the board. "Other than magic, what traits or habits or ideas or events, etc. make Muggles different from us?" she wrote on the board before turning around. "Please remember to raise your hand before you answer and don't repeat answers already shared...and only give one answer....also remember we are here to learn about Muggles not knock them down or criticize...any answers like this will result in loss of house points..." she said glancing out over the students' faces hoping that they were starting to understand how serious she was about the rudeness she had heard that often occurred in this class in the past.
OOC: Okey dokey...let's get this started...please remember to keep chatting down to zip because Gemma is watching...also remember to raise your hand before you answer and don't repeat answers...also only give ONE ANSWER so that others have plenty to do...we are all Muggles in real life so there should be plenty of answers being thrown out there...and remember she is serious about loss of points for rude comments...see you in a few! *MUAH*
Sitting on her bean bag Nessie listened looked at Professor Cerulean..she felt a little rude, as she forgot to greet her on her way in the classoom. Ness loved Professor Cerulean, she always used to make her classes interesting by using props and by giving everyone treats. Not wanting to be rude again, Ness got up quitely so she could get up and get some food to nom on. She didn't really recognise the most sweets as the sweets were different to ones from South Africa, she took a one of each sweets deciding to taste them all. The drink's were unfamiliar too, she had only had coke and sprite before as they had that back home in South Africa. Ness took a cherry coke wanting to try something new. She then sat back in her bean bag and noticed the bags the Professor had handed out.
"Eeeep!" Ness whispered quitley. Opening the bag only one thing caught Nessie's eye...it was the purple pen. A wide smile lit up on her face. At home she always used to write with a purple pen, it was her favourite colour and it made her books look a little more exciting. Most of the items in the bag were nothing new to Ness, as she had lived around muggles most of her life even though she wasn't muggleborn herself. She put her hand in the bag and took out the purple pen and the notepad, it was all she needed for now. She listened to the Professor's explanation and question.
Nessie knew alot about muggles and she knew that this would be one of the easiest subjects she had. She raised her hand and waited her turn. "Professor..Muggles use all different sorts of machines (like cellphones, computers etc) instead of using magic (Which of course they don't know exsists)" She thought her answer was pretty reasonable.
Text Cut: CRAZY!!! Aaron
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Originally Posted by MUDBL00Dpride
When Aaron heard a Ravenclaw make a comment to some meanies a smile came on to his face. 'HEEEEY! WOOHOO!' He called, she was right, Muggles were pretty awesome, he thought as he stuffed his face with M&Ms.
He liked being a Muggleborn, because it meant he got the best of both worlds. He got the awesome magic stuff here and the great other stuff back home. Muggles had way more sports to do, but wizards had awesome candy.
Quite possibly the best candy. But then Muggles had Dr Pepper!
Looking at Aaron Nessie raised her eyebrow. It looked as though he was acting like a three year old again. She couldn't help but burst into laughter. She just hoped he wouldn't loose any points with the amount of noise he was making.
"Um..Aaron...now's not exactly the time to be Hyper" she said sounding like a goody two shoes, which she was of course.
Lucy looked at professor as she asked the first question in the class. Well, Lucy was very excited to answer that. So she raised up her had and said "Professor, muggles can't live for 100 years without falling ill, but we can." She said but wasn't quite sure if that was correct.
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Sitting on her bean bag Nessie listened looked at Professor Cerulean..she felt a little rude, as she forgot to greet her on her way in the classoom. Ness loved Professor Cerulean, she always used to make her classes interesting by using props and by giving everyone treats. Not wanting to be rude again, Ness got up quitely so she could get up and get some food to nom on. She didn't really recognise the most sweets as the sweets were different to ones from South Africa, she took a one of each sweets deciding to taste them all. The drink's were unfamiliar too, she had only had coke and sprite before as they had that back home in South Africa. Ness took a cherry coke wanting to try something new. She then sat back in her bean bag and noticed the bags the Professor had handed out.
"Eeeep!" Ness whispered quitley. Opening the bag only one thing caught Nessie's eye...it was the purple pen. A wide smile lit up on her face. At home she always used to write with a purple pen, it was her favourite colour and it made her books look a little more exciting. Most of the items in the bag were nothing new to Ness, as she had lived around muggles most of her life even though she wasn't muggleborn herself. She put her hand in the bag and took out the purple pen and the notepad, it was all she needed for now. She listened to the Professor's explanation and question.
Nessie knew alot about muggles and she knew that this would be one of the easiest subjects she had. She raised her hand and waited her turn. "Professor..Muggles use all different sorts of machines (like cellphones, computers etc) instead of using magic (Which of course they don't know exsists)" She thought her answer was pretty reasonable.
SPOILER!!: CRAZY!!! Aaron
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Originally Posted by MUDBL00Dpride
When Aaron heard a Ravenclaw make a comment to some meanies a smile came on to his face.
'HEEEEY! WOOHOO!' He called, she was right, Muggles were pretty awesome, he thought as he stuffed his face with M&Ms.
He liked being a Muggleborn, because it meant he got the best of both worlds. He got the awesome magic stuff here and the great other stuff back home. Muggles had way more sports to do, but wizards had awesome candy.
Quite possibly the best candy. But then Muggles had Dr Pepper!
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Looking at Aaron Nessie raised her eyebrow. It looked as though he was acting like a three year old again. She couldn't help but burst into laughter. She just hoped he wouldn't loose any points with the amount of noise he was making.
"Um..Aaron...now's not exactly the time to be Hyper" she said sounding like a goody two shoes, which she was of course.
Alyssa jumped when she heard Aaron cheer out. She looked over at him and almost laughed again. "The Professor needs to take that Dr. Pepper and candy away from him as soon as possible before he starts doing jumping jacks!!" Alyssa thought to herself.
She looked at Nessie who was frowning at Aaron and just shook her head. "Aaron's a lost cause right now. We'll be lucky if we don't get 50 points deducted from our house,"Alyssa thought miserably to herself.
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Aaron bowed, choosing to ignore her tone. He had the funny feeling that she didn't like him, but right now he was too hyper to care.
He took another sip of Dr Pepper. 'Mmmmm. Delicioso.' He rubbed his stomach, boy he was full. 'You'd do that, just for me?' He tried, unable to keep a grin off his face.
Taking a sip from her own can, Thea turned to just look at Aaron. 'No. No I will not..' She rolled her eyes. 'Shh now, the teacher'll get mad.' Thea didn't even bother to hide the sarcasm, this 'hyper' boy was annoying her..
Grabbing her quill, Thea began to write down the answers that other people were giving, aswell as her own.
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He broke many hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best♥
Aaron tried to keep a straight face as Daisy giggled. Daisy was great fun. So was Dr Pepper. That meant Dr Pepper + Daisy equalled some catastrophe. He grinned, something funny was going to happen very soon.
'Mmm Doctor Pepper....' Daisy mumbled happily, grabbing another bottle. 'You know what just makes this better?' she grinned, whispering as she turned to Aaron.
Before giving the boy a chance to answer, Daisy pulled a large bottle out of her bag, now grinning madly. Hyper Daisy was kinda scary sometimes...
'KETCHUP,' her face manic but her voice, amazingly still a whisper. Daisy took a last swig from her first bottle and gave the second bottle an absent-minded shake, not realising what the effect would be.
'Dang,' she hissed, jumping as Doctor Pepper fizz came out of the bottle at an alarming rate... All this. In a lesson. But it was so funny.
Drying the drink with everything from her robes to her hair, Daisy shot it one last look and took the bottle of ketchup, squirting a generous amount in and stirring it with her wand. Wands were useful, even when it came down to muggle drinks.
Aware that exploding drinks and ketchup could, and would cause quite a bit of unwanted attention, she hasitly picked up her quill and began to scribble down some notes.
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'Mmm Doctor Pepper....' Daisy mumbled happily, grabbing another bottle. 'You know what just makes this better?' she grinned, whispering as she turned to Aaron.
Before giving the boy a chance to answer, Daisy pulled a large bottle out of her bag, now grinning madly. Hyper Daisy was kinda scary sometimes...
'KETCHUP,' her face manic but her voice, amazingly still a whisper. Daisy took a last swig from her first bottle and gave the second bottle an absent-minded shake, not realising what the effect would be.
'Dang,' she hissed, jumping as Doctor Pepper fizz came out of the bottle at an alarming rate... All this. In a lesson. But it was so funny.
Drying the drink with everything from her robes to her hair, Daisy shot it one last look and took the bottle of ketchup, squirting a generous amount in and stirring it with her wand. Wands were useful, even when it came down to muggle drinks.
Aware that exploding drinks and ketchup could, and would cause quite a bit of unwanted attention, she hasitly picked up her quill and began to scribble down some notes.
Rose looked at Daisy. 'Can I look at your notes?' Rose asked then saw Daisy with some Dr Pepper. 'DR PEPPER!' SHe said shrilly. 'Oh my Gosh, I love that stuff! I have it at home all the time!' Rose beamed happily. Rose was a TEENSY bit hyper from the party. Lots of chocolate... 'Can I have some?' Rose whispered excitedly.
Rose looked at Daisy. 'Can I look at your notes?' Rose asked then saw Daisy with some Dr Pepper. 'DR PEPPER!' SHe said shrilly. 'Oh my Gosh, I love that stuff! I have it at home all the time!' Rose beamed happily. Rose was a TEENSY bit hyper from the party. Lots of chocolate... 'Can I have some?' Rose whispered excitedly.
'Yeaaah,' said Daisy happily, smiling at her friend. 'But not this. This is miiiiiiiiine,' she said crazily, taking another swig of the ketchup-Dr Pepper mix. 'It's so niiiiceee,'
She could feel the sugar taking over her body, her concentration falling faster than anything, but being hyper was funnnn, and Daisy didn't really feel in the mood to care whether or not she got in trouble.
'Hic,'
Oh dang. The hiccups had started, she was not used to fizzy drinks and was experiencing the side effects quite strongly. Being a muggle must be cooool.
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Skiving Snackbox? A Headless Hat?
Only one place you can get all that...
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Pranking just got professional...
Did you just lose something? The GAME? Sorry... 'Justin Bieber, he is the man!' U mad, Felton!?
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Originally Posted by weasleytwinsROCK
'Yeaaah,' said Daisy happily, smiling at her friend. 'But not this. This is miiiiiiiiine,' she said crazily, taking another swig of the ketchup-Dr Pepper mix. 'It's so niiiiceee,'
She could feel the sugar taking over her body, her concentration falling faster than anything, but being hyper was funnnn, and Daisy didn't really feel in the mood to care whether or not she got in trouble.
'Hic,'
Oh dang. The hiccups had started, she was not used to fizzy drinks and was experiencing the side effects quite strongly. Being a muggle must be cooool.
Rose giggled at Daisy. 'Fine!' she pouted and took a swig of hers. 'I LOVE THIS STUFF! HYPERNESS!' Rose squealed. Rose was going to go nuts. People had better watch out, chocolate+Dr Pepper+Rose=Nuts. She nearly felt sorry for the poor people. 'EEEEEEP!' Rose whispered maincally as she squiggled in her bean bag.
Jesifur stopped taking notes and raised her hand. She could not believe she almost forgot about the wonderful muggle toy she had.
When called upon she spoke with a huge smile, "Muggles have these cool little toys, at least i think they are toys. They are little figures sculpted to look like muggle things but they have heads that bob around like they might be alive. I think they are called bauble head dolls, but I might have gotten that wrong. I do own one! It is a green lizard like thing and one of my most prized possessions!"
Jesifur was slightly embarrassed by her own delight in a muggle object, but she did like it an awful lot. It was like a pet that needed no care.
Taking a sip from her own can, Thea turned to just look at Aaron. 'No. No I will not..' She rolled her eyes. 'Shh now, the teacher'll get mad.' Thea didn't even bother to hide the sarcasm, this 'hyper' boy was annoying her..
Grabbing her quill, Thea began to write down the answers that other people were giving, aswell as her own.
'Sheesh,' Aaron squeaked, trying to contain his laughter, 'why so serious.....?'
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Originally Posted by weasleytwinsROCK
'Mmm Doctor Pepper....' Daisy mumbled happily, grabbing another bottle. 'You know what just makes this better?' she grinned, whispering as she turned to Aaron.
Before giving the boy a chance to answer, Daisy pulled a large bottle out of her bag, now grinning madly. Hyper Daisy was kinda scary sometimes...
'KETCHUP,' her face manic but her voice, amazingly still a whisper. Daisy took a last swig from her first bottle and gave the second bottle an absent-minded shake, not realising what the effect would be.
'Dang,' she hissed, jumping as Doctor Pepper fizz came out of the bottle at an alarming rate... All this. In a lesson. But it was so funny.
Drying the drink with everything from her robes to her hair, Daisy shot it one last look and took the bottle of ketchup, squirting a generous amount in and stirring it with her wand. Wands were useful, even when it came down to muggle drinks.
Aware that exploding drinks and ketchup could, and would cause quite a bit of unwanted attention, she hasitly picked up her quill and began to scribble down some notes.
Aaron contained an excited and unmanly squeal and nodded happily. Ketchup made everything heavenly, so why not Dr Pepper?
'Gimme gimme!' He whispered, holding his bottle of Dr Pepper out.
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'Sheesh,' Aaron squeaked, trying to contain his laughter, 'why so serious.....?'
There was no other way to describe it. Thea growled. 'What is wrong with you?! Your hyperness is.. ANNOYING!' Frowning now, Thea tried to shuffle a bit a way from this irritating older boy. Merh.
'If points get taken off me..' She muttered to herself, she hugged her knees and rested her chin on her knees.
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A golden heart stopped beating, working hands went to rest.
He broke many hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best♥
There was no other way to describe it. Thea growled. 'What is wrong with you?! Your hyperness is.. ANNOYING!' Frowning now, Thea tried to shuffle a bit a way from this irritating older boy. Merh.
'If points get taken off me..' She muttered to herself, she hugged her knees and rested her chin on her knees.
Aaron gasped, officially surprised. He was annoying? No no no, just his hyperness. Right? But he couldn't help that, it was just the- the GREATNESS of Dr Pepper. Not him.
He took another sip of Dr Pepper, 'it's not me who's annoying. I assure you I am awesome and unannoying and stuff. Just saying. It's the doctor right over here.' He said and pointed at the bottle of Dr Pepper in his hand.
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Gryffie♥ | Disney DORK | Brittana | Mrs Kellan Lutz | I like Your Moves!
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Originally Posted by MUDBL00Dpride
Aaron gasped, officially surprised. He was annoying? No no no, just his hyperness. Right? But he couldn't help that, it was just the- the GREATNESS of Dr Pepper. Not him.
He took another sip of Dr Pepper, 'it's not me who's annoying. I assure you I am awesome and unannoying and stuff. Just saying. It's the doctor right over here.' He said and pointed at the bottle of Dr Pepper in his hand.
Smiling slightly, Thea leant over and tapped the bottom of the bottle with the palm of her hand. A small bit splashed out and landed on Aaron. 'Yep, and it'll be all gone soon!' Leaning back over, she rolled her eyes. Awsomw? Thea thought not. 'Well you have yet to prove that..'
Ok.. she could practically see points dissapearing for her chattering..
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A golden heart stopped beating, working hands went to rest.
He broke many hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best♥
Smiling slightly, Thea leant over and tapped the bottom of the bottle with the palm of her hand. A small bit splashed out and landed on Aaron. 'Yep, and it'll be all gone soon!' Leaning back over, she rolled her eyes. Awsomw? Thea thought not. 'Well you have yet to prove that..'
Ok.. she could practically see points dissapearing for her chattering..
Aaron scrunched up his face as a tsunami of Dr Pepper hit him. He kept himself from screaming out in agony as the fizzy drink came into his eyes, Dr Pepper hurt!
It would all be gone soon? Unlikely, he'd write his parents tonight and ask for a large stash of Dr P.
Really, he wasn't awesome? Aaron wasn't sure why she hated him, but he thought it best to leave her alone for now. Besides, there were plenty of other fun people in this class. 'That will be proven, sir- madam. I meant.'
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Gryffie♥ | Disney DORK | Brittana | Mrs Kellan Lutz | I like Your Moves!
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Originally Posted by MUDBL00Dpride
Aaron scrunched up his face as a tsunami of Dr Pepper hit him. He kept himself from screaming out in agony as the fizzy drink came into his eyes, Dr Pepper hurt!
It would all be gone soon? Unlikely, he'd write his parents tonight and ask for a large stash of Dr P.
Really, he wasn't awesome? Aaron wasn't sure why she hated him, but he thought it best to leave her alone for now. Besides, there were plenty of other fun people in this class. 'That will be proven, sir- madam. I meant.'
HAHAHA! Thea burst into laughter as the boys face scrunched up. Hiccuping slightly, Thea covered her mouth. ok, it hadn't meant to go in his eyes!
Fanning herself with her hand, Thea tried to stop her feeble giggles that kept washing over her every time she looked at Aaron. 'Oh well. I don't feel so mad now..' And she was off again. Oh wow. Funnaaaay times.
Sir?! Oh hell naw. She stared at him open mouthed. 'Whatever..' But she had to bite her lip to stop herself from collapsing into giggles again.
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A golden heart stopped beating, working hands went to rest.
He broke many hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best♥
HAHAHA! Thea burst into laughter as the boys face scrunched up. Hiccuping slightly, Thea covered her mouth. ok, it hadn't meant to go in his eyes!
Fanning herself with her hand, Thea tried to stop her feeble giggles that kept washing over her every time she looked at Aaron. 'Oh well. I don't feel so mad now..' And she was off again. Oh wow. Funnaaaay times.
Sir?! Oh hell naw. She stared at him open mouthed. 'Whatever..' But she had to bite her lip to stop herself from collapsing into giggles again.
Now that was better. Smiles, happiness, awesomeness. He wiped the Dr. Pepper away, sort of glad that his robes would smell of Dr Pepper for the rest of the day now. 'See, that's better! Life's too....' he forgot that Muggle saying his parents used all the time and frowned in concentration, 'fun? To be angry... and stuff, you know?'
He glanced around the room cautiously, that was spy training, and hoped the professor didn't notice or hear them.
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Now that was better. Smiles, happiness, awesomeness. He wiped the Dr. Pepper away, sort of glad that his robes would smell of Dr Pepper for the rest of the day now. 'See, that's better! Life's too....' he forgot that Muggle saying his parents used all the time and frowned in concentration, 'fun? To be angry... and stuff, you know?'
He glanced around the room cautiously, that was spy training, and hoped the professor didn't notice or hear them.
Alyssa looked at Aaron. He definitely was getting everyone's attention, and he looked like he was enjoying it too. Hopefully, the Professor hadn't seen him yet. She wished that she was sitting closer to him because she felt like twacking him on the head. The moment she thought what his reaction would be if she did that, she almost burst out laughing again. He was definitely incorrigible. Someone needs to hide all the Dr. Peppers!!
The professor couldn't help but giggle as a young girl had an issue with one of the cokes. She walked towards the girl and with a flick of her wand helped her clean up the mess. "I'm sorry you got such an explosive can...sometimes they get shaken up and this is the result..." she said with a shrug of her shoulders, "Let's get you another one...." she flicked her wand and led another coke over to her hand and opened it for the girl. "There much better...." she said as she handed her the coke.
She glanced around the room with a smile as she watched all of the students getting comfy in their chairs and eating and conversing. She nodded her head slightly at all of the hellos and the excitement. She was happy to see so many happy faces because she knew that quite often Muggle Studies wasn't a fave or some students, especially students from one particular house.
She walked to the front of the class room and with a flick of her wand she silenced the Muggle music to signal to the class that it was time to start.
She took a deep breath and then started, "Hello everyone!" she said excitedly as the chatting started to cease across the classroom. "And welcome to our first Muggle Studies class!" she said as she turned around and erased the dry erase board with her hand...no magic just used an eraser.
She turned back around with a smile, "For those that don't know me, I'm Professor Gemma Cerulean. This is my second year teaching at Hogwarts. Last year, I had the pleasure of teaching History of Magic. This is my first year teaching Muggle Studies and I am very excited to try to make this class and subject fun and interesting." she said with her usual soft voice and smile. "For my returning students, I am sooo excited to see you and I can't wait to hear how your breaks went and for us to have more fun, and more goodies, through the year in our classes..." she said motioning towards the table. "And speaking of goodies, if you haven't grabbed any or you run out, feel free to get up at any time and grab some goodies...I'm all about food and snacks making lessons more interesting..." she finished up with a little wink at the students.
"This class' main focus is on the Muggle world and their practices and traditions and their daily lives. It is set up to help us better understand the Muggle world and to help us better meld into the Muggle world if we ever need to have interaction." she said everything very matter of fact with a smile on her face. "However, this class is not set up for us to make fun of the Muggles or to criticize the Muggles, so if you feel that you cannot handle yourself as a mature student in this class, then I suggest you go ahead and politely excuse yourself." yes that was the nice way of saying we weren't going to have Muggle bashing she thought with a little nod and a serious look/glare out at the students.
"Because this is a Muggle Studies class, we are going to utilize a few Muggle classroom ways while in the class." she flicked her wand and little bags started flying out to each of the students. "I would like to ask that while in this class that you refrain from using magic. I will use it occasionally to pass out things or take notes and such but I want to ask that you refrain from using it unless I specifically ask or you receive permission from me." the bags slowly landed beside each of the students. "Inside each of these bags you will find a few Muggle classroom items for you to utilize while in the class and while doing homework." she grabbed a bag hovering over her head and pulled the drawstring to open it. She slowly reached inside and pulled out each item slowly, "A notebook full of lined paper...this is what Muggles use to take notes and such in stead of parchment...so from this point on no parchment is allowed in this classroom or for use in homework. There should be plenty of paper in this notebook for you to use for the year." she reached in and pulled out a handful of long plastic items, "These are pens. I have put a red, black, blue, purple, green, and pink pen in each bag. We will not need quills in this class. These pens have plenty of ink within them to use for the term." she reached inside one more time, "And these are pencils. They are similar to the pens, however, on this end..." she said pointing towards the pink softy end, "is what's called an eraser and it will erase any errors that you make when you turn it over and rub your paper with that end..." she said with a little nod and then laid each of the items out on her desk at the front of the class.
She let the students examine the items for a few moments and then continued, "Okay let's get this lesson officially started..." she said excitedly as she turned towards the dry erase board and picked up a marker. As she spoke she wrote the first question on the board. "Other than magic, what traits or habits or ideas or events, etc. make Muggles different from us?" she wrote on the board before turning around. "Please remember to raise your hand before you answer and don't repeat answers already shared...and only give one answer....also remember we are here to learn about Muggles not knock them down or criticize...any answers like this will result in loss of house points..." she said glancing out over the students' faces hoping that they were starting to understand how serious she was about the rudeness she had heard that often occurred in this class in the past.
OOC: Okey dokey...let's get this started...please remember to keep chatting down to zip because Gemma is watching...also remember to raise your hand before you answer and don't repeat answers...also only give ONE ANSWER so that others have plenty to do...we are all Muggles in real life so there should be plenty of answers being thrown out there...and remember she is serious about loss of points for rude comments...see you in a few! *MUAH*
Nate almost threw his arm into the air, but couldn't because luckily it had remained attached to his body. "Professor, muggles enjoy watching television, playing games like Scrabble, Minesweeper, and Chess--" well, at least Nate enjoyed those games, "-- but the chess peices don't move or attack each other, they do that themselves. They also like playing sports that don't involve flying, like basketball, tennis, baseball, socc-I mean football..." Nate's American heritage had come through there, "... And they dress differently also. Personally, I think a t-shirt and jeans with a pair of Converse All Stars is most comfortable..." he was ranting. He figured he should wrap up. "All in all, they lead an entirely different lifestyle!" Nate finished boldly. He was beaming. New favorite class? Probably.
Ariella raised her hand. She had a thought burning in her head that she really wanted the professor's opinion on. "Obviously, the magic versus non-magic is probably the biggest difference between the muggle and wizarding worlds." She paused for a minute. "But do you think that sometimes, muggles work harder than us?" She hoped the class would understand what she was about to say.
"I mean, don't get me wrong, wizards are amazing people. But muggles don't have the power to just whip up something that they need or cast a spell to do simple things. They have to work for things."
Well that came out sounding negative. She didn't think that muggles were better than wizards. In fact, she thought that wizards were better than muggles. Not wanting to sound prejudice, she threw in a quick comment. "But wizards can accomplish great things with magic. Some of the most famous things and people are wizards."
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Kurumi winced a bit as Corey brought up war. No matter how many years passed, it was a sensitive subject for people and, well, Japan still held massive memorial services every August to remember what happened. Yes, non-magical wars were certainly on a much more massive scale - although the Wizarding Wars could have gone global had Harry Potter failed. Still, she mostly agreed....until Adam opened his mouth.
Her head spun around and looked at him with a slightly offended expression on her face. "So, are you implying that wizards don't fight wars for personal gain?" Because, THAT was a ridiculous notion. "Voldemort certainly wasn't looking to benefit anyone other than himself. Also, I don't think you can say that the Death Eaters and the Order of the Pheonix were fighting for the same reasons. Their motives were as different as night and day."
She flashed Corey a slightly disapproving look at his next comment. Hopefully he was only talking about personal gain in terms of devouring as many snacks as possible. He did seem to like food a lot. Too much personal gain there and they might be rolling him through the corridors.
Adam tried to keep his temper as Kurumi slightly contradicted him,which made him sink below.He quietly paid attention to her opinion on what he had said.Great,now he was trapped by that Quimper Slythering an now Kurumi,he had put himself in that hole.
"My information on that part of wizard history is not up to par.So excuse me..Miss Hollingberry to just giving my thought on the matter of subject.
Everyone has different motives for doing certain things it is the way it is performed that can make the war more gruesome.One group of people from the war may think that torturing people for information is fine an dandy while others use actual weapontry to get the job done.But I am guessing I am wrong there too,everyone uses torture an weapons as a way to increase chances of winning in a war."
Now that was better. Smiles, happiness, awesomeness. He wiped the Dr. Pepper away, sort of glad that his robes would smell of Dr Pepper for the rest of the day now. 'See, that's better! Life's too....' he forgot that Muggle saying his parents used all the time and frowned in concentration, 'fun? To be angry... and stuff, you know?'
He glanced around the room cautiously, that was spy training, and hoped the professor didn't notice or hear them.
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HAHAHA! Thea burst into laughter as the boys face scrunched up. Hiccuping slightly, Thea covered her mouth. ok, it hadn't meant to go in his eyes!
Fanning herself with her hand, Thea tried to stop her feeble giggles that kept washing over her every time she looked at Aaron. 'Oh well. I don't feel so mad now..' And she was off again. Oh wow. Funnaaaay times.
Sir?! Oh hell naw. She stared at him open mouthed. 'Whatever..' But she had to bite her lip to stop herself from collapsing into giggles again.
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Aaron scrunched up his face as a tsunami of Dr Pepper hit him. He kept himself from screaming out in agony as the fizzy drink came into his eyes, Dr Pepper hurt!
It would all be gone soon? Unlikely, he'd write his parents tonight and ask for a large stash of Dr P.
Really, he wasn't awesome? Aaron wasn't sure why she hated him, but he thought it best to leave her alone for now. Besides, there were plenty of other fun people in this class. 'That will be proven, sir- madam. I meant.'
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Smiling slightly, Thea leant over and tapped the bottom of the bottle with the palm of her hand. A small bit splashed out and landed on Aaron. 'Yep, and it'll be all gone soon!' Leaning back over, she rolled her eyes. Awsomw? Thea thought not. 'Well you have yet to prove that..'
Ok.. she could practically see points dissapearing for her chattering..
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Aaron gasped, officially surprised. He was annoying? No no no, just his hyperness. Right? But he couldn't help that, it was just the- the GREATNESS of Dr Pepper. Not him.
He took another sip of Dr Pepper, 'it's not me who's annoying. I assure you I am awesome and unannoying and stuff. Just saying. It's the doctor right over here.' He said and pointed at the bottle of Dr Pepper in his hand.
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There was no other way to describe it. Thea growled. 'What is wrong with you?! Your hyperness is.. ANNOYING!' Frowning now, Thea tried to shuffle a bit a way from this irritating older boy. Merh.
'If points get taken off me..' She muttered to herself, she hugged her knees and rested her chin on her knees.
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'Sheesh,' Aaron squeaked, trying to contain his laughter, 'why so serious.....?'
Aaron contained an excited and unmanly squeal and nodded happily. Ketchup made everything heavenly, so why not Dr Pepper?
'Gimme gimme!' He whispered, holding his bottle of Dr Pepper out.
The young professor glanced from one student to the next thinking that eventually they would get the hint….but alas they didn’t…they continued to chat and chat and chat and even mention the fact that they were going to get in trouble for chatting but continued to do it…hello professor looking at you…
And then she had enough and did something that she had never done before…she cleared her throat and then spoke loudly over them, “Thea and Aaron, you know that chatting is not allowed once class has started….” She paused and then continued trying to keep her voice calm but she had had it with their chatting, “minus five points for each of you….” She said with a blank face…she hated taking points away but they were talking and talking and talking and talking and she had enough of it.
SPOILER!!: War Conversation
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Kurumi winced a bit as Corey brought up war. No matter how many years passed, it was a sensitive subject for people and, well, Japan still held massive memorial services every August to remember what happened. Yes, non-magical wars were certainly on a much more massive scale - although the Wizarding Wars could have gone global had Harry Potter failed. Still, she mostly agreed....until Adam opened his mouth.
Her head spun around and looked at him with a slightly offended expression on her face. "So, are you implying that wizards don't fight wars for personal gain?" Because, THAT was a ridiculous notion. "Voldemort certainly wasn't looking to benefit anyone other than himself. Also, I don't think you can say that the Death Eaters and the Order of the Pheonix were fighting for the same reasons. Their motives were as different as night and day."
She flashed Corey a slightly disapproving look at his next comment. Hopefully he was only talking about personal gain in terms of devouring as many snacks as possible. He did seem to like food a lot. Too much personal gain there and they might be rolling him through the corridors.
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"Nothing wrong with a bit of self gain." Corey remarked and ate more free food. Gaining.
Winning.
Slytherin.
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Adam had to think about this one very thoroughly.He was,after all a muggle,so he should have some sort of idea.Well,everyone had war,but there was a small aspect that differed between muggles an wizards.Slowly raising his hand Adam looked around until the Professor called upon him.
Well,going on a little bit of what Mr. Quimper just said when muggles have war sometimes they involve several countries..They fight either alongside with other people or they fight religious groups that say the United States does not agree with..Sometimes,also when the war commences it could be an attack one group of people have planned that put the muggles into the war..I think Wizards are fighting in wars for the same reason,while muggles might have a different reason with their enemy to be in a war.They might want to win it to gain something for their own state that only helps them but not other countries.Self Gain."
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Corey had trouble putting his hand up becaus he was so busy eating the FOOD and giving the professor adoring looks as if he'd been starved for YEARS and now this kind, amazing soul had bought his love with FOOD.
He glanced at all the stationery without much interest. Being muggleborn, it wasn't all that exciting to him. What WAS interesting was that so many of the kids seemed to talk like they thought muggles weren't human or something. Not in a mean way, just.... muggles and wizards were all human, man.
He did eventually manage to get a hand up.
"Muggles have war. And yeah yeah I know people are probably gonna say that we had wars, Wizarding war blah blah but honestly that Voldemort stuff wasn't the entire Wizarding world, just Britain really. Muggle wars, there are world wars where millions of people die, they blow each other up with nuclear power and destroy things, and fight, fight, die."
Back to the food and making goo-goo eyes at the professor.
Gemma listened closely to the conversation about the wars and then finally decided to chime in, “I think you all have pretty valid ideas about the difference between wars in each society, but you have to remember that both Muggles and Wizards have had to deal with conflicts that ran across the oceans to other countries and that dealt with dictators or mad men that were only after self gain or self preservation…actually our histories can be very similar in a way when we analyze the way each society won their freedom from such men and notions….neither society has been innocent in their endeavors for creating such chaos…” She said hoping that would make each of them think about the similarities of each type of war over the years.
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Listening to everyone give their answers, Mia kinda doodled on a piece of parchment. Most of the students were giving the same sort of answers. She wondered if the other students had picked up that muggles were not really lacking anything just because they couldn't do magic. There were areas where they were far more advanced than wizards were.
She actually wasn't going to answer the question since everyone else had already done so but there was something that muggles had that wizards certainly did not. So she raised her hand in the air. "Muggles have starving people in the world. Millions die each year from not getting enough food. Not something we would ever have to worry about."
The professor smiled at the young girl and listened to her comment and then replied, “Well that’s not completely true, wizards can not produce food on their own using magic…that is one of those items that we cannot just produce… so there are some areas of the Wizarding Community that have had to deal with famine and a lack of food…just think about the great Potato Famine that both the Wizarding Community and Muggle Community had to deal with near Ireland…neither culter was spared from this famine…many times where there is a community with starving muggles there are wizards near or living in that community as well…” she said very matter of fact a little worried about some of the student’s understanding of wizards living within muggles.
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She slowly made her way back to her bean bag when she heard that some of the students are now starting to talk about racial discrimination. Or, was it comparison between muggles and wizards ? She couldn't help but give her opinion about this. Insults were highly prohibited in this class. "Hey." she called out to those chatting about muggles, how silly they are and things like that, "Not just because you're a pureblood means you could go on using foul words for muggles. They too have their right to be respected as much as you so you better start practicing that respect if you want to gain the same." And she trotted back to her bean bag. Munching on her toblerone.
The professor eyed the girl as she exploded on the others in the classroom, “ I’m sorry but that is not the way to handle the situation…first off, I will handle anything that I deem inappropriate…that is not your job at all…secondly, all that you have done is caused a bigger scene then was needed…Next time, mind your manners, and let discipline in my classroom be left to me…” she said politely but with a stinging edge to her words. “ I have not heard anything that is over the top or more than just some of these students not fully understanding Muggles and that is why we are here is to learn about them…but all you have done is caused more problems…have a seat…”
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Marie looked at the little kid who said something about vacations. "And you think just because we're magical means we don't like to take vacations?" What planet was this kid from? Planet of the BORING?
“Marie, we do not shoot down others’ opinions…do not let it happen again…” she said politely towards the young girl.
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NO MAGIC???
USING PENS?????
RUBBING MY END ON PAPER????????
WHAT WAS THIS SCHOOL TEACHING?!?!? Jonathan had to fight to not explode from shock, but alas, he had to answer the question the professor asked. Because, well, He KNEW what muggles did.
Raising his hand, "Eaaasy, Professor. MUGGLES, Travel everywhere in the SKY! Every day, a muggle will get up and go to a place, WHERE THEY SIT IN THE AIR FOR 18 HOURS! And once there, they take part in eating bugs, and fishing for survival, and then they go home!!! And then they do the same thing for the rest of their LIVES!!!"Pie.
The professor wrinkled up her nose slightly and cocked her head to the side at the young boy’s reply, “Mr….” she let her words fade off to lead him to filling in his last name…”I am sorry to say that you have been misinformed about a lot of things in your statement. ” she paused and then continued, ”You are correct that they utilize airplanes to travel in the sky, but not all muggles sit on these airplanes for 18 hours and they def do not eat bugs and fish for survival and then go home…I think you need to check your sources and your facts before you share such crazy accusations.”
She focused back on the class and flicked her wand. Instantly a list of all of the answers appeared on the board behind her.
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Television
Games
Sports
Bobbleheads
Electricity
Computers
Cellphones
Video Games
Solar Power
Wind Energy
Transportation-Cars, Buses, Ferries, Airplanes, etc.
Animals
Justice System
Music and Bands
Credit Cards and Money Systems
iPads, iPhones, iPods,....oh my!
Different types of vacations
Sporting Events
Buildings/Architecture
Law Enforcement
Weapons
Literature
Fashion
Space Travel
Medicine
Cleaning Techniques
Mail System
E-Mail
Food
Desserts
Schooling/Education Systems
Snacks
Inventions
Occupations
Media
With a proud smile on her face, she continued the lesson, “What a great set of differences….and we could go on and on and on about the differences…” she paused glancing at the list again.
“But now let’s focus on something that is a major difference between the family structure of Muggles and Wizards, our games….” she flicked her wand and a huge stack of various Muggle games fell from the ceiling and landed on the stage next to her. It had to be over twelve feet tall.
“Can anyone name any Muggle games? They can be any type of game…” she asked knowing that it was an easy question for Muggles and that some Wizard children would know the answer.
[font color=”purple”]OOC: I’m going to give you a little while to name as many as you can…remember to not repeat answers and to raise your hand before you answer…No chatting because Gemma is still watching… MUAH*[/COLOR]
Muggle Studies Lesson #1-Muggle Games 
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