Alyssa looked around as Professor Scabior posed his question. Sure it had trapdoor that nobody knew about until now which made this place kinda secret but Alyssa figured that it served another purpose. So she raised her hand and said,"Professor could it be because this place is one of the highest points in the castle that it was often used as a look out point? I'm not sure but wasn't this one of the places that was used at the Battle of Hogwarts to spot intruders coming in the distance?"

Laura looked at the Professor and smiled. "Is it important because of how tall it is?" Laura asked not sure if it was right, but she decided to go on. "See with a really bad person you could lock them in here and they wouldn't escape." Laura smiled, "Well they wouldn't if you took their wand."

Vickers shifted in his seat as he looked around the Divinations Tower, he agreed with Alyssa, he could see the strategic advantage of the northern location of the tower. Pondering what else he could add he raised his hand tentatively "Sir, this place is important because this was where Sybil Trellawney spent most of her time when she was at Hogwarts, and she was the Seer who prophesied the defeat of Voldemort."

Nerida raised her hand and said Is it because its the tallest tower and it can be used for protection. Didnt some of the best seers teach at Hogwarts, and stayed up here? She was about to say its where Albus Dumbledore died, but she remembered that was the Astronomy Tower, she was happy she didnt say it.

Kurumi cocked her head to the side as she thought about Professor Scabior's question. So, something not exactly related to Hogwarts' history, but about the actual place itself. Kurumi took a glance around the room. A tower, sort of rounded, right? Biting on her bottom lip for a moment, Kurumi raised her hand. "Is it important because the shape and structure of the tower aides in the overall defense of the castle?" She thought she had read something about rounded towers being thought of as being able to deflect any sort of attack.

Nate looked around to see all the people that gave answers. They were all good ones. So he took out his quill and ink set with a piece of parchment paper. He started to write down the answers that were being said. Before it though he wrote possible answers. Then after he was done writing he had to think of his own answer. He finally came down to an answer. he raised his hand, and said "Professor would it be important from how high up this point is. Wasn't this the location were alot of seers would come to." He was hoping his answer would be somewhat correct.

Sierra got good and situated in the new area, yet kept off to the side, as she wasn't entirely pleased with the idea of being in the Divination tower. The only silver lining of the place was that this was a half-Potions lesson. She smirked at the gesture for Scabs to sit on the floor. As a student, she'd had to sit on the floor many times. It was high time someone else made like a lowly house elf and took the floor.

He didn't, though, so Sierra simply glanced forward and listened to the question. Why was this place important? Psh. Like she knew. That was why she here--to find out why. Or maybe she was just still in a bad mood,, since some foreign Minister had decided to take her father away for a while. Hmm. "Well," she said, raising her hand, "it's a good place to hide something you don't want found, isn't it? Not many people are going to climb this many stairs just to chance finding something here. Plus, it's behind a trap door." They could practically throw a whole Hufflepuff up here and no one would ever know. Well, maybe someone would. "Not only that, but if you're up here, it gives you the advantage. You can see someone coming, but the chances of them seeing you aren't so great."

For an area in the Divination tower, it wasn't half bad.

Amelia really wasn't too sure of how to answer the question Professor Scabior asked them, but she still raised her hand to try. "As was mentioned, I think it would be good for defense. It's high up as well as secured with a trap door that intruders might not know about. So you could use this tower as a look out and also somewhere to send defensive spells from. It could also be used as a safehouse I suppose." She really was just summarizing what some of her other classmates were saying, but oh well. There wasn't much else that she had to contribute here.

Jayden raised her hand slowly, only opening her mouth to speak when she was called upon. She didn't want anything bad to happen... like death... or loss of house points. "Professor, wouldn't it be a good place to keep watch for any sort of enemy that would head our way? Or maybe it's an important and resourceful spot for the Divination towers because it's close to the sky and is a bit... er.... whimsical?" Jayden had never been one for Divination... it seemed too.... odd... too..... fluffy and unimportant. She could only hope at least one of her answers were correct, Ravenclaw needed housepoints!

Being tired from the long climb up, Ira had just flopped down on the nearest bench, which was unfortunately one of the benches in the front rows. She just now saw this, but couldn't do much right?

So she just sort of softly sighed and looked up as Professor asked them the importance of this tower. Ira raised her hand up in the air and answered, "Professor, like some others have said, this tower can be used as a defence post, like a viewing station in a fortress, for seeing the approaching enemy.." What else could this be useful for? She continued, "It would be a good hiding place too. And for firing missiles!" After all, who would want to climb up to seven stairs? Or maybe they would...

But then Ira wondered why Divination tower was such high up? "Professor, by being on higher ground, is it that Divination can be practiced better?" In some ways, that was true too, right? Like it would be useful for better observation of birds in Talk Ornithomancy...

Jory raised his hand. "Professor, I think this was one of the places used in the Battle that took place in Harry Potter's final year. This part of the castle can be useful to spot anyone trying to take the Castle's occupants by surprise,'' he said.

Yea.

The woman, what were they calling her? Dragon Lady? She could have informed them before so they could directly climp up here instead of making all the down to the dungeons for nothing. Lea bet she did on purpose just for the sake of making them walk and climb all the way because HER students had to climb all the way no matter what.

Stupid Slytherins.

The dark haired girl still had the same expression she wore down at the Potions Class, the very unimpressed one, as she eyed the woman, the thing that did not look like anything she knew and listened to the History Man. Hah! History was boring. Probably this was going to be boring too. Who cared about why this tower was important anyway?

Flipping her hair back, the little girl huffed loudly and crossed her arms.

''I don't see a reason for building a tower that high other than watching the sky or for parachute jumping.''

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Jory raised his hand. "Professor, I think this was one of the places used in the Battle that took place in Harry Potter's final year. This part of the castle can be useful to spot anyone trying to take the Castle's occupants by surprise,'' he said.

Aaaand who was this?

Whoever he was, he was standing right next to her and it annoyed Lea a bit. No one could stand to her that close...it did not matter even if the boy was the one to claim the point first.

So, raising a thin forefinger, she poked the Hufflepuff boy to the left in his shoulder. ''Hey you! Move. Mooove.''

First thing in the morning and his mood is completely ruined. He slithers to the side and leans against the wall. Hades can already feel the acid corroding the wall of his stomach. He is STARVING! Just hold on for about an hour, come on...

Droopy blue eyes gander at the odd ancient thing as Scabior starts the lesson. "Because of that thing?" he points to the old wheely-machine and at the same time, he yawns.

Selina wasn't exactly sure why the divination tower was so important in the grand scheme of things. Of course, she supposed that it had something to do with the alititude of the tower and the overall defense like everyone else had said, but to be honest, besides that, she could not see any other benefits. It was a tower. It was not like the astronomy tower where Dumbledore had died. This tower was nothing special.

"Sir, perhaps it is special and important because it is a part of Hogwarts and one of the only untouched places in the castle by the Great Battle?" Most of the other places in the castle had been damaged by the war and Selina had never heard about this tower having damage.

Scabior shrugged. "It could be." Really, he doubted anyone would find anything hidden up here. Children were to lazy to go looking for some thing so high, and so was he.

"Yeah, but unless the thing that you are hiding is important....it really wouldn't make the room important." Scabior shrugged.

He blinked, a bit lost at the answers he was getting. Not because they were wrong, but simply because he was not listening. "Yeah, I guess." He shrugged. "But any tower could be a lookout tower."

"Somewhat I guess." Scabior held back a smile from the young girls innocent answer. "And unless they kicked the door down."

Oh, hey! "That's a good note." He nodded. "But it doesn't exactly relate to todays lesson." Good note though.

"Best....worst...depends on what you think about seers." And the few who had been in Hogwarts. Scabior was trying to move away from that.

"Nah." He shook his head. "There are spells for that."

"I don't know. you tell me." Was there a book that was written about certain locations that seers would visit. The boy framed his answer as if Scabior should know.

"What a polite way to call your classmates lazy."Scabior smirked. "But sure, whatever." She was right about everything she was saying.

"This tower yeah." He shrugged.

"I like to think that all of Hogwarts is whimsical."It was after all a school full of magic, for Merlins sake.

....Honestly? "Missiles aren't fired at Hogwarts." His voice was dry and he turned to look at Lafay. Was she hearing this too?

"If you say so." He said with a shrug.

...Again.....honestly? "People don't use parachutes at Hogwarts." Scabior sighed before pinching the bridge of his nose. No wonder Salazar Slytherin had wanted to get rid of Muggleborns. Talks of missiles and parachutes. Amazing.

"How do you know it was untouched?" He raised a brow. Where was the proof?


Scabior turned his head to the side before nodding. "Yeah basically."

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"This tower has been used for many Hogwarts related reasons." He waved his hand lazily.. "But we aren't talking about Hogwarts today- for the most part guesses though." Yeah, yeah, he was only being nice.

"Today we are talking about general wizard history. And in our general history a large tower such as this one, has a relation to that-" he shoved his thumb at the wheel thing. "Anyone have any idea what that thing is called? It might just help you figure out todays lesson." A tower and a strange wheel thing inside it. Did he need to give out hints? He would. As long as he didn't hear anymore answers about missiles at Hogwarts.

Well, at least he hadn't glared at her, right? That was some sort of progress. Rolling her shoulders a bit as she looked on towards the object - the thing that really was the dragon in the room. Slowly, Kurumi raised her hand. "It's...a spinning wheel," she answered, only knowing this from the fairy tale books she had sneaked into her home as a child and read under the sheets by flashlight.

As for figuring out what the rest of the lesson was about, she had theories, but she was sort of tired trying to play guessing games with these two particular professors. Probably best to just sit back and wait.

Alyssa looked at the wheel again. A tower...Alyssa was stumped but raised her hand and hazarded a guess. "Professor is that wheel the thing that helps draw a bridge up? Like those drawbridges most castles have. I guess there must be a place where the chain that pulls the bridge up, is kept."

Someone didn't seem to be in a very good mood right now. :/ Amelia frowned as he seemed to dismiss her answer. Meh. Hopefully this lesson would go okay. She didn't like when Professors weren't in a good mood.

Turning her gaze back to the wheel thing now, Amelia honestly was confused. She had no idea what it was, just assumed it was a muggle object. She remained silent so she could listen to her fellow classmates.

People did not use parachutes at Hogwarts...

Hahahaha...very funny...

...not.

Lea glared at the professor and wanted say something rude. She wanted to but something made her fight against the urge...probably the fact that there were not one but two Professors in the room that smelt of pure Slytherin gross. Yeah, she di,d not know about the man but Lea considered everyone she did not like a Slytherin.

Anyway...had to focus on the class. She stared at the thing with a rather uninterested expression.

''I don't know why but this thing and the high tower remind me of the story Sleeping Beauty''

Belle heard the professor and then another student saying the same answer she was going to say. "Hmm it does look like a spinning wheel." Belle thought and answered the question.

Thank you, someone knew something. Even if it was Hollingberry. Oh! And even another student!"Right, correct. This thing here-" He jabbed his thumb once more. "Is a spinning wheel."


Scabior blinked, before a smile spread across his face. The man bit down on his fist trying to stifle the fit of laughs that had erupted from the Hufflepuffs answer. It was an honest guest. He really couldn't help that he found it funny. When he finally caught his breath he shook his head. "Not quite Miss Potter, but I do understand where you got that from." Even if he had laughed.

Scabior stared at the first year for a few seconds before smiling. "Well maybe because it was suppose to." Look at that, sometimes first years were useful. "As Miss Carter here said, this tower reminds her of the Muggle Sleeping Beauty fairy tale." He looked around the class. Tower. Spinning wheel. Did it make sense now? "Someone-everyone tell me about this Muggle tale." If they knew about it of course. If they didn't sit tight, he was sure that someone would explain it.

Had he looked...slightly upset that she had spoken up. She never could tell what the man wanted and was more reserved to just give up trying to please the man. As long as she didn't answer questions about house elves, things seemed to be alright.

When he asked for further information on the story, Kurumi paused for a moment to try and come up with a very brief summary. No sense in talking for too long and risking the man glaring at her or something. Slowly, Kurumi raised her hand to speak. "Sleeping Beauty is about a princess who was placed under an enchantment by wicked fairy godmother who was not invited to the princess' christening to prick her hand on a spindle, like that one," she paused to indicate the one in the room. "...and die. The other fairies that had been invited had already bestowed gifts on the princess, except for one. This fairy changed the evil fairy's enchantment to have the princess fall into a deep sleep for 100 years and be awoken by a king's son."

That was the gist of it at least. There were many different versions of the story over the years, but this was what she remembered from her story book.

"Ouch!'' Jory exclaimed as he felt something dig into his left shoulder. Rubbing it he looked around as the girl next to him rudely spoke to him. "What's your problem?'' he whispered not wanting to distract the class. "Why did he have to move?'' he wondered not moving at all.

Glaring at the girl, Jory raised his hand. "It's about a girl who got cursed by a fairy. The curse was when the girl grew older, she would prick her finger on a spindle and die. But another fairy said she will sleep for 100 years and will be woken by a prince. Eventually, she did prick her finger and she fell into the sleep. After the 100 years have passed, a Prince did find his way to the girl. And she obviously woke up.''

Jory didn't really remember the story. He wasn't a fan of those Prince/Princes stories.

Still just trying to figure out for herself what the Divination tower and a spinning wheel had to do with History of Magic and Potions, Stella had stayed quiet during the first part of the discussion. Until it came out that the point of the lesson actually had nothing to do with Hogwarts specifically, and she'd looked up for a moment as the spinning wheel became the focus of the discussion. And then Sleeping Beauty, which she remembered quite well from when she was little, before her and Risa had gotten more into exploring and everything else. It didn't hurt that the traditional origin of the story happened to be French, either, but then Kurumi had raised her hand what seemed like seconds after Professor Scabior had asked about the details of the fairy tale.

She didn't want to just repeat what the Gryffindor had said, so she had to think about her answer for another moment before she raised her hand. "Not only does the princess get cursed to die after pricking her finger on a spindle, which gets turned into a century-long sleep by one of the fairy godmothers who had been invited to the christening, but the good fairy comes back after she's pricked her finger in order to put everyone else in the castle to sleep as well so the princess doesn't have to deal with the fact everyone she knows would have been dead by the time she was woken by the prince," she began, starting to lower her hand again when another thought occurred to her. "Also, the spinning wheel she finds is being used by a woman in a half-forgotten tower of the castle. Probably a lot like this one." Are we going to be learning about sleeping potions? The Draught of Living Death?, she asked silently in her head once she finally lowered her hand. Hopefully not, but then it was hard to think of anything else that would entail Potions being part of the lesson.

Oops! Ira had forgotten for a moment that it was Hogwarts and not a muggle school! Of course no missiles would be fired! But surely there must be magic equivalent to it too, right? And anyway, did Professor understand what she had really wanted to say? That maybe curses, instead of weapons could be fired from her! Though she had no idea if the range of curses was far or not.

And when the professor asked the next question, for Ira the tower actually reminded of Rapunzel's fairy tale. Though it had no connection to the spinning wheel. And she was about to say that aloud, but thought better and stayed quiet.

But Lea had already mentioned another fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, whose story had then been explained in brief by Kurumi. Hehe.. were they all actually discussing muggle fairy tales in Potions/HoM class? With professors like Scabior and Lafay around?

Ira just sort of snorted and giggled lightly at the thought.