Cece had been running late getting to the class but it had been unavoidable. She had students in the infirmary she had to take care of first. She was sure Vanessa would understand... her being a healer too.

After quietly slipping into the room she stood in the back listening to the answers the students were giving. She was rather surprised to hear some of the answers too. How was it that these young students knew so much about the heart and the function of the circulatory system. It was as if they were reading it word for word from a book.

Honestly kids. Just tell what you know not what you're reading. It's alright NOT to know everything.

ooc: Let's try to remember the ages of your charries here. Remember, eleven and twelve year olds are not going to know all this stuff already.

Valves? Legs? Beds? Elastic? Any questions? How about...everything? Besides locating the heart and identifying it as a muscle, Kurumi had been completely lost with pretty much everything. This very well could have been because she was more of a visual person, so just hearing descriptions of things was sort of going in one ear and out the other and leaving her with a very VERY strange image in her head of elastic beds with legs running around inside tubes (her veins) to and from her heart.

When the next question was asked, Kurumi sort of gave the woman a blank stare for a few seconds and then raised her hand. "Because...without an ample supply of blood our bodies would shut down and die?" she half asked half answered. "It's been explained that the heart helps pump oxygenated blood through our body...so...without that everything would suffocate." Right? There was an awful lot of fancy words being thrown around by everyone, so the Gryffindor was still trying to sort things out and simplify it all in her head - minus the beds with legs if possible.

Feeling good that his answer had been right, Daichi grabbed a piece of paper from his school bag as he wrote down some notes. It could come in handy later. It was pretty simple the way the healer explained....

Until she said those difficult words! Atleast to Daichi they were difficult.. He didn't even know how some were written correctly. He tried to keep up with his notes but after scratching a few words he sighed and gave up taking notes. Instead, he just simply listened and hoped he would get it soon.

Why it was important to have a good supply of blood ? Ehmm... He gave a clear look of confusion as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Maybe because..." he tried but quiet honestly, he had no idea. "Sorry, i don't know..." He bit his lower lip as he looked down at his messy notes.

He was seriously in the wrong place here!

Yes! She knew a lot about the subject because she went to a muggle elementary school AND she was a huge book fan. Louisa smiled gratefully at the woman's compliment. The girl, actually, started to like her already! It didn't happen with most of the professors. Heh.

Raising her hand again, Louisa started, "Because the blood is the only way for the tissue cells to get their nourishment from? Without the exchange of oxygen, the cells would be damaged and eventually die which would lead to the death of the tissue, and then the death of the organ." Or maybe there was a simpler reason. Louisa just didn't see it.

As she waited patiently for the next question, Gwendolyn wondered if they were also going to do some practical work. Hmm… that would be interesting, but I don’t see how possible that is to happen. Meh.

Now- why was important that the organs get enough blood?, the third year asked herself and looked back at the Healer. ‘Because they wouldn’t function without blood?’, she started saying, looking slightly unsure. Grrr… why can’t I get it right? Let’s see – why is it necessary to get blood everywhere, she told herself. Body temperature? That could be a reason, right? Or the thing with cells that help fight diseases? There are lots of things wrong with organs, why couldn’t this be a reason too?

‘Maybe because the body temperature needs to be constant? There are people with bad blood circulation…’, she said, but then stopped. Better shut up than say something wrong, right? Riiight?

Ira knew a bit about all this.. She was glad that her last answer was correct. Now for the next question.

Why was blood needed? Well, it helped in a lot of things.. providing nourishment in the form of oxygen and nutrients had already been answered. So what else? Opposite function! Ira raised her hand up and answered, "Ma'am, if the blood helps to supply nourishment to cells, then it also helps in carrying away of waste products.." See, being in a muggle primary school was coming useful now!

Hannah had to think about this question a bit. It seemed simple enough, but there could be so many reason why blood was important she was sure. She decided to give it a go anyways. "Blood is important to our vital organs because blood is what keeps them going." She said with a raised hand. Her answer sounded kind of dense to herself, but she was eager to participate anyways.

Minerva put her hand back up. "The organs need to have a constant blood supply to them so that they get the right amount of air and clean blood, while pushing out the bad blood." Minerva was hoping she got that right. Health class seemed to be working for her. Glad to see some muggle education wasn't pointless.

He listened carefully when Mrs. Paton explained to them more about the three type of blood vessels.

Messer wasn't quite sure about the next question but he put his hand back up in the air again "Because if our vital organs not get a good supply of blood I don't think that they would work properly, Ma'am." He thinks that was the logic answer to the healer question.

The questions kept getting harder. But if he could just use logic...

Hand in the air, he said, "Well, you just said that every part of our body needs oxygen from our blood, so I would assume that the vital organs need even more because of their importance. I guess that's why it's so important." Cue pitying look for a wrong answer.

Ella wasn't exactly sure why the organs needed a good supply of blood but she knew it had to be to keep them going. "I suppose that the organs need the blood to keep them healthy and functioning." Yes, it was an obvious answer but Ella really didn't have a clue as to the technical stuff.

'Blood provides oxygen, so I suppose the vital organs will need more blood because they'll need more blood in order to function correctly..'
Thea tucked a lock behind her ear, and scribbled down some answerrs. this wasn't too hard, right?

"It is mainly because, the blood supplies our body with oxygen. It carries it through the entire body and lacking of oxygen can cause serious illness like shock or acute shock. It happens when the body lacks supply of oxygen. It can also cause unconsciousness..right?" answered Akira.

Nessie raised her hand. She had loved what minor anatomy classes that the public school system gave. "The circulation of blood provides oxygen to the cells of the organs making them function correctly." She said with a bright smile on her face.

Right now, Hades felt like he was studying Biology in a muggle school. Those stuffs can get too much for his brain. He wasn't stupid or anything, but he wasn't a scanner either. "Eh... 'Cause we'll die without blood?" answered the boy cluelessly after raising his hand. That was the only answer he knew unless. It was logical enough, wasn't it?

Amelia wasn't as sure about this question as she had been about the others... which was pretty sure. But she still was going to hazard a guess because it didn't seem that it would be too hard to figure out on her own. She wondered if Jodie had ever mentioned it to her.

She raised her hand now. "Well, blood carries oxygen and other nutrients in it, so I'd assume that the organs would need such sustenance in order to function, and function properly. Which is why blood travels throughout the body, to each organ." She nodded now.

Veins, veins, veins.. Was all Kimalia knew about the heart. Figuring now would be a good time as any, she began taking notes from everyone's response. She would've never figured the heart to be so important as others are implying, perhaps a Healer's job was more than just knowing the right potion and spells to give.

Selina rose her hand, "Because, ma'am, if we don't get blood to our vital organs we would short out like a machine." In layman's terms without blood the human body would die. This class was wildly interesting. For the first part of the lesson she had sat back and listened to the other answers. She knew that she was not knowledgable in this field so why not take notes? Learn a thing or two.

That seemed to be all the answers. Perfect. Vanessa was still impressed with their knowledge. Looking towards the back of the classroom, she noticed that the school healer had entered. Perfect. They would be getting towards the more practical side of the lesson soon, and so she might be needed. ”Good Morning Healer Tillstorm.” Vanessa nodded with a smile. Now she could move on with the lesson, knowing that Healer Tillstorn was there if she was needed.

Moving back onto the topic of the lesson now. Vanessa smiled at the students. “As some of you have said the blood supplies oxygen to all of the organs, and tissues within the body. Hence why it is so important that they have a good supply. The blood also gets rid of all waste products, such as Carbon Dioxide, which is a good thing, because our body would be all full of bad things if the blood couldn’t get rid of it.” That wasn’t really a technical or scientific way of explaining it, but hopefully the students would get the idea. She’d rather give them a simple explanation than confuse them with lots of technical words. “We have talked quite a lot about the blood, and the importance of it to our bodies. So I’m going to move on to a different topic now. That topic is bleeding.” which seemed like a nice topic to her. ”Bleeding can occur both internally, and externally, which means in and outside of the body. We’re going to concentrate more on bleeding outside of the body.”

Vanessa paused to collect her thoughts, and think of what she was going to ask for the next question. So that she could say it in a way which the students would understand. ”Bleeding is a very bad thing. Does anybody have any ideas why?”

Alyssa thought for a moment before raising her hand, " Ma'am, our vital organs need oxygen in order to continue functioning properly. If they do not get sufficient oxygen, they slowly shutdown which causes damage to the rest of the body which they help control. Like for example if the brain does not have enough oxygen, it cannot send commands to the rest of the organs in the body, and a human being slowly looses control of his five senses.

Another example is if the lungs, which is another vital organ, does not get enough oxygen, a person's ability to breath is compromised. Once the lungs are damaged, it will not be able to help take in oxygen that the rest of the body needs and breath out the antioxidants and carbon dioxide which the body doesn't."

Just as Alyssa has given her answer, they were all asked another. She thought for awhile before raising her hand to reply

"Bleeding is a very bad thing because the body needs at least 10 to 12 pints of blood in order to function properly. We can lose 1 pint and still function properly but if we lose 2 pints we can go into shock and of course if lose 5 to 6 pints that usually results in death. When bleeding occurs we have to determin which type it is. Capillary bleeding which is the less severe and the blood just oozes from the wound, venous bleeding which is a little more severe, where the blood streams from the wound or arterial bleeding where blood spurts from the wound. This is the most serious type of bleeding because it is life threatening and difficult to control. "

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Can anything get any more complicated? History of Magic was more than enough for him, but this. Luckily Hades brought rolls of parchments along to this seminar. He already scribbled notes on a few inches or so and that excluded illustrations. "We won't get enough oxygen and nutrients since blood give them out to all parts of our body. Bleeding can cause infections on wounds too, ma'am," another logical answer came out from his mouth as he lazily put up his hand.

Spike looked up. The technical bits had lost him, but he knew about bleeding. He'd had his fair share of cuts and grazes in the past. "Because it's messy," he said as he raised his hand. "And people generally don't like having to clean it up." He shook his curly-haired head. His mum, for example, didn't appreciate it anywhere near the carpet. "And because if blood is coming out, it means there's a hole for stuff to go in. And that's not necessarily good either."

Yuck! Now they were actually going to talk about bleeding? Oh! Ira hated the blood and the mess. Oh well, now that she had arrived to this seminar, she might as well get over with all of it quickly!

Then she looked up as a question was asked. Why was bleeding bad? Ira knew that bleeding was bad, but why? no, she didn't know. She just raised her hand up and answered, "We lose a lot of blood by bleeding.. so if blood is lost, then who will provide all the oxygen and other nutrients to the organs?" she said. Then she added, "Also it makes for a terrible mess!"

Why is bleeding a very bad thing?, the third year repeated in her head. Got it!, she told herself and raised her hand. However, a she was about to talk, Gwendolyn realized students had already mentioned the thing about organs not getting enough oxygen. Hmmm… think of something else!, the girl told herself. ‘I guess the blood pressure drops if the person loses too much blood’, she said and hoped it was correct. But if the blood pressure really drops, that means the heart rate should increase, right?, she asked herself and finally decided to go on talking. ‘And the heart rate increases?’, the third year said, looking a bit unsure.

Amelia blinked at the students who looked four or five years younger than her and sounded like they regurgitated the text book.

But this question was easy! Amelia raised her hand right away. "Because when we lose a lot of blood, we are losing out on oxygen and nutrients that the organs need. If enough is lost, our organ systems will be severely damaged and shut down. Naturally you can die from blood loss. Or, if it's not as severe, you can get weak and pass out. Why they suggest you don't give too much blood at one time when you are donating it. I believe blood loss also lowers blood pressure." Well, it seemed pretty obvious to her. :3