Good on Lottie for finding the connect because Ella hadn't been so sure. As for the Duncan Fletcher dude, Ella only knew very little about him and most of it had already been said and she wasn't up for repeating answers.

That Hufflepuff comment, though? Ella narrowed her eyes and stared at the girl who said it. That was pretty ignorant, wasn't it? People who said stuff like that did more to discredit their own intelligence than anyone else's. She merely shook her head and turned her attention towards the front again, annoyed.

Who the heck was Duncan Fletcher? Caleb had never heard of that guy. Ever. He wrinkled his eyebrows and quickly began to flip through his History of Magic textbook. Nope, not in here. So this guy must be RECENTLY important in the history of their school or something right? If he wasn't even in his book yet?

He listened to a few of his classmates answers before he raised his hand and decided to repeat what they said. "He won the Triwizard Tournament last time it was here," he said with a smile.

Ew, he was a HUFFLEPUFF? Gross.

Who was the man, she was going to give some crazy answer about how the man kinda, if you squinted a bit looked a bit like the professor himself, under an aging potion perhaps. she was amused and she let a smile form on her face, yes, it was professor dude, regardless of who it really was.

then there was another picture, and Circe da soleil what the hippogriff was that.. Clearly it was a hybrid of some sort, not normal, it was weird, she tilted her head to the side a bit thinking maybe she was looking at it the wrong way, but, no. clearly she needed a brush up on her magical creatures.

There was another dude on the screen and ariana knew who he was, but, so did every one else. so she simply didnt say anything given the fact that many other simply we're stating the same thing over and over and she had nothing new to bring to the table.

could she doodle on her name card?

Not knowing who this picture was of, Toby had resolved to just stay quiet and wait for another question, and continue making notes. But then, when he heard a comment about Hufflepuffs, he whipped his head around and frowned.

"Oi," he said simply, looking in the general direction of whoever had said it. Tobias wasn't yet aware of how low an opinion people had of Hufflepuffs, so it was a bit of a surprise to hear something like that said.

However, he couldn't find who'd spoken, so instead Tobias turned back to the front again and continued adding to his notes on the lesson so far. Probably just one of those things. Most people liked everyone, right?

Minerva sat listening to everyone, why were they studying the Triwizarding tournaments. It wasn't that they weren't interesting, because they were, but she just wondered what brought it on until she had remembered something. What she had to read in the Prophet, what was that competition again. Listening to everyone name the Fletcher dude in the picture she finally put up her hand.

"Professor like others have said he was a champion of the tournament but I was wondering does our studying the Triwizarding Tournaments have anything to do with that academic competition that was in the prophet?" They had not been mention from any of the professor about it big surprise, but the prophet had something in it, so maybe asking they would finally know what it was all about.

Scribble... scribble... scribble...

Notes were being taken. Definitely. About both the Fletcher guy and the Triwizard Tournament stuff, because he didn't really know a lot about either one of those topics. A grin had spread across the boy's face when he wrote down the fact that Fletcher had been a Hufflepuff. It was kind of nice, wasn't it? And he'd won it too? Good for him! These things sounded... dangerous. And something that probably required a lot of courage which the seventeen year old seriously lacked.

... The grin vanished when a certain comment had been made. Duffers? Weren't those stupid people? Alec frowned in her general direction before looking away. Yeah... that was quite mean. And it confused the boy because... how did people come to such conclusions? He just... didn't get it. At all. Not wanting to start up an argument or anything, the boy bent his head and scribbled down the last few notes before looking up again.

... So... Minnie had an interesting question. Did this have anything to do with the competition? And were they going to be prepped for it? Or given more information about it?

HOLY MERLIN, this class was moving fast! Sophie was just about to raise her hand and say "Cockatrice," when she had to lower her hand to figure out who this next guy was. Uhhh....she didn't know. He didn't look like anybody she'd ever seen before, but apparently everybody else in the class was in the know.

So she raised her hand.

"I have no idea, Professor," she said, "but apparently he's some guy who owns a tattoo parlor." ANDDDD....since she was eleven-years-old and not allowed to get tattoos, she'd have no way of knowing that beforehand.

Oh yeah. He was cute. Anya had no idea who he was, but, sheeeeeee wanted to know.

Yes, she did.

... Apparently that was Duncan Fletcher. Who worked in the tattoo parlor. And, since Anya was now 17, she could totally check into him.

...

That.

Check into the tattoo guy the tattoo shop.

It was all just pictures and questions about the pictures right now, and Penelope couldn't be bothered to answer more than what everyone else had said at some point. So listening was all she was doing. Some guy from the Ministry ages ago, a cockatrice, and some guy who won the Triwizard Tournament ages ago. And he owned a tattoo shop or something? Penelope would've thought he would do something cooler if he won that tournament thing...but to each their own, or something.

So it WAS that Crouch man. Totally called it, we did, you're a witness Professor. Copying from hufflepuffs totally paid off. She scribbled down the extra little details that her class wanted to add about him--interesting stuff really--before turning her attention to the next picture.

Oh! Oh! Oh! She KNEW what that was, most definitely. In fact, if you'd asked her a few years earlier she'd have told you she wanted one for her birthday. Cockatrice. Yup. Lex glanced over at Lottie who was mentioning one of them breaking free during a triward tournament...and now the Professor confirming they'd be learning about something along those lines. Okay...not so boring afterall.

She nearly sighed when he pulled out another picture. This was getting old. "I don't actually know who that guy is Professor but people are saying Duncan Fletcher. You probably want a lot more info than that but see, all I can say is that he won the tournament..." But only because that's what everyone else was saying. Was he important? SHOULD she know him?

Winning was good but lots of people won lots of things.

He had totally no idea about the animal, so Adi bent his head and scribbled as much notes as possible about the man,Barty Crouch Senior. Wait. Who said that? He cast a sharp look at Hannah, the girl whom he met at the Courtyard. "We are not duffers,'' he said to her.

And here was another man. Adi eyed the picture. He didn't know who this was either. Bummer. Was he ever gonna be able to answer any question correctly? What? Tattoo parlor owner? That was waaaaaaay cool, yo!

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Cutty didn't feel like venturing a guess, although given all the this man supposedly did in his life - most of which, Cutty found terribly impressive, especially that part about almost being Prime Minister and putting away his kid in Azzie!-it was entirely possible that any guess Cutty might offer could've actually occurred within the life of this Barty Crouch wizard.

Cutty's hand went up anyway. "Professor? Might I be able to get a large copy of the photo for myself after class?" Cause it was going STRAIGHT over the headboard of his bed in the Slythie boy's dorm. "For study purposes." It seems he'd found himself a new heroe.

.....Creepy. o_O For real. Slytherins were creepers and this kid, though he had moments of cool, was going full on creeper pants over there. Zahra stared at him.

Until that got boring, which it did pretty quickly.

Her name NEW name card now looked like....

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FARTY COUCH

So that was pretty funny and she kept randomly cackling to herself when she remembered it or saw it on her desk. Farty Couch hahahahahahaha.

"He looks COOL." The Triwiz Champ man. "I'd give him a high five."

WERE THEY GOING TO MEET A COCKATRICE? Mo might have internally (externally?) flailed a bit at the very thought of it, and he practically fell out of his seat in excitement... until it became apparent they were just talking randomly about amazing magical creatures.

Cruel, dude. Very cruel.

Still, he was willing to raise his hand to offer information on the guy in the next photo. "He has great hair. Amazing hair, really."

"This is what he is best known for. Winning the Triwizard Tournament.Excellent that you all know this." Truly so long as this was known he could push through the rest of the class.
Good to know that a few of them knew he ran a business. "Yes, he owns Paradise Piercings and Tattoo Parlor on Diagon Alley. Good job, I had once considered getting a whole sleeve on both arms a while back, but that's off topic..." Yeah...uh...He was going to be rebellious in his youth and get full sleeves of crazy monsters. That passed though, long before the shop opened.


Oh No! A Dozer-Daydreamer! only one thing he could do. Tiberius shuffled off to the boys desk. Smiled that he had at least taken the time fill out the note card, reached under Mr.Charlton and took on of his shoes. "THANK YOU MR.CHARLTON." He did need another shoe to go along with the one he requested off of Ms.Galloway. "I'll be keeping this one on my desk, I will not ask again that I need Everyone's fullest attention."
Well yes this was good to know as well. Duncan Fletcher was in fact a Hufflepuff. "Correct, you are both in that Fletcher was formerly a Badger, and no Ms. Somerlad I don't mean formerly in the sense that he is dead. Mr.Fletcher is very much alive as we speak." Now who was this girl that had attracted the attention of some Badger glares, and shouts. "Ms.Lockwood." Tiberius addressed her sternly, well...as sternly as he could with the voice he had. "Yes, Duncan Fletcher was not a Duffer. BUT, it was very disrespectful of you to group that term in with a House that some of your classmates belong too." He retrieved her shoes from below her seat, and set them down on his desk. "I'll take three points for the disrespect, and you will be leaving class without your shoes today. I'll decide when I think you can have them back."

It wasn't historical fact...but it was fact none-the-less. "Yeuh he does." What happened to the Ravenclaw like response he had gotten from Mr.Branxton earlier?
...

"He probably gives good high fives."
...

...Farty...Couch...
Okay...yeah. Tiberius floated one of her shoes to he pile of shoes he had just collected on his desk. "Ms.Couch, I am no longer playing games. The Next Note Card had better have the small bit of information I gave simple instructions for." He'll give her credit where it's due though. That silly name could only have come from Barty Crouch, which must have meant she was paying attention in class. "If the next one does not have what I ask, I will take points, and you too will be walking out of class barefoot."
"Only that I found it would be an interesting subject to cover just before the competition officially started Ms.Wheatborn." He gave the Prefect a smile. Glad to know that she had read the Daily Prophet. "I'll briefly touch upon that near the end of class, but good that you brought it up."

"Now, As it was stated by most of you Duncan Fletcher was a Triwizard Champion. Ms.Wisteria had correctly connected that we will be focusing on the this Wizarding competition today, BUT I wish to focus solely on the events of the very Tournament that Mr.Fletcher took part in. I find it important that you all know current Magical History as much as you know of your 1st Wizarding War, or Goblin Rebellions." Even if those were extremely thrilling read about. "Today's News is Tomorrow's History, as I like to say." Does he say that? HE DOES NOW! "What I'm looking for are names. Those who were selected to be champions along with Duncan Fletcher, and other key figures who visited Hogwarts during the Tournament. What were the challenges that they faced, and who came out on top of each challenge. Bonus points for any other historical events that occurred that same year."

OOC: Hiya! So here we go again, One per each of you if you can. be creative, you don't have to know it. If you are interested and need a nice push. You can check out a brief summery here from the Term 26 Yearbook, and Term 26 in the School Archive.

The Tri Wizard tournament sounded like fun! Wouldn't it be cool to be a Champion and represent the School? Now, Adi did know of these Tournaments having heard of them from his mom and reading an assortment of books though he couldn't exactly remember what challenges the champions faced during this one. Did it have to do something with Dragons? Or was that another year? But he did remember a little fact about this particular one.

The reason why he remembered was because..."No one died during this Tournament, Professor D,'' the little badger said raising his hand and wriggling his toes. He knew that the tournament was called off for some years because of champion deaths.

When Dora had picked the empty seat beside Alice, she hadn't realized what they'd be talking about this lesson. Had she? She probably wouldn't have even attended the lesson. And she was too far in the front to easily slip out unnoticed as opposed to had she been sitting in the back. Well, this sucked.

She knew names. All of them in fact. She knew more than most of her classmates on the last tournament even, but she wasn't offering up any information. For reasons. The fifth year just sunk into her seat and fixed her gaze on the card she'd filled out at the beginning of class.

Bloody thing wasn't going anywhere for the entire year.

Well West knew one of those answers, because Slytherin. He'd read things about Slytherin leaders... back before. So hand up.

"One of the Hogwarts representatives was Raiden Kururugi, Slytherin Prefect. Born November 17, 2054 in Hokkaido, Japan. I read that he was sickly as a child, I think a heart defect? Yeah." Which proved that anyone could be chosen for something like that, yes? Yes.

Also... West snuck a glance at Dora. For reasons.

Did he want champions from other schools, too? "There was a champion from Durmstrang named Aleksandra Miroslav." Miroslav? That sounded a bit like Dora's last name, and Alice knew that was her sister's name. She peeked at her best friend out of the corner of her eye and tried to read her expression, totally ignoring the boyfriend next to her.

Aleksandra Miroslav.

Hm. Weird.

Nigel did know about the tournament. It was just assumed common knowledge. So Syltherin and Hufflepuff where said. So Nigel guessed he would just say the Ravenclaw Champion. He was a Prefect like Nigel.

"Another Hogwarts represenative was Miles Vorkosigan, Ravenclaw Prefect."

Yeah the other schools should be told also.

It was quickly becoming apparent that Professor Dursley's favorite form of punishment was the taking of people's shoes. Note to self: never get in trouble during History of Magic. And yeah, she had no clue about the Triwizard Tournament beyond who had won. And she was a SEVENTH YEAR. So, where were the younger students getting this stuff??? Was this info something she wasn't privy to because she was American?

Or maybe they had actually bothered to read old issues of the Daily Prophet.....

Cat totally agreed with Mo about the hair thing. She hadn't remembered the man's name until she heard it spoken, but she had admired his hair. No wonder he'd been the big winner. Right?

She also wasn't super keen on the other names either, but she did know some things from first hand account. "My aunt was the Healer during the Tournament. She said that the Champions faced many creatures in their tasks like bowtruckles and kappas and dugbogs, some plants too: venomous tentacula and fanged geraniums. One of them, I think a Durmstrang boy, was poisoned by the venomous tentacula." And surely more, but Cat didn't remember every single one. Besides, those were cool ones. Did that count, anyway? Second hand knowledge?

Nerida knew about the tournament, it as cool... Didn't everyone know about it though, it happened even in the days of Harry Potter. "The term was one of Hogwarts' best moments. They had successfully pulled off the Triwizard Tournament without any deaths from any of the schools." Deaths happened a lot... Must have been scary for the people who were picked, they could have died....

Yeah she only knew that for now... She didn't remember the others she only remembered the champion. Why remember the others what did they do?

Laura was just going to sit there because she had no idea what she wanted to do because she had no idea of any of the people who were in the Tri-Wizard cup but she knew something about it. "Professor there was a dance at the Tri-Wizard cup." Laura was sure she had heard about that.

Minerva was hoping for more of an explanation since they had not been told anything yet by anyone here at school, but if he would talk about it later she would be happy to wait. Maybe she would even stop after class and ask him more if he didn't answer all the questions she was wondering about, but that could wait she shifted more in her seat to better listen. This was an interesting topic and she had read about it a few summers ago.

Putting up her hand and hearing most talk about other champions Minerva remembered reading about some of the tasks. "Professor I read about a maze task that the champions at to compete in. There was a part that involved potions and Fletcher did something wrong that made him not grow back to his normal height." This she remembered, because it helped reading that even champions screwed up at times.

The sixth year noticed that she got stares and angry looks but she didn’t care. Hufflepuffs opinion of her didn’t matter. What was up with this shrimp? She had met the little guy in the courtyard and she was pretty clear about how she felt with Hufflepuffs and life in general… so what was with the surprise? Granted she was actually giving this one a fair chance because he actually stood up for himself somewhat and Hannah could respect that. ”You…” She was just about to tell the puffer exactly what she thought when the professor interrupted her.

See, he wasn’t a duffer. She had given the man a compliment. He was taking points? Had this man lost his mind? Since when did stating facts count as being disrespectful? This was an outrage. She didn’t even say it rudely. It wasn’t like she was trying to start a rebellion over here. Hufflepuffs produced duffers. She didn’t say that every single one was because obviously the bloke that they were discussing wasn’t. She was just about to protest when she figured that it would most likely only cause her to lose more points or wind up in detention. The sixth year decided that it was best if she just kept her mouth closed. Who knew what would come out of it otherwise. Oh, he was keeping her shoes huh? She didn’t care really. She had a million and it wasn’t like her mom wouldn’t send her more anyways. He could keep them. Hmpf!

Annoyed with the professor, Hannah had a hard time trying to concentrate on the next question. Focus Hannah, she scolded herself. She would not let the new HoM professor get to her. He was obviously a puffer lover. She raised her hand in case he decided not doing so would be disrespectful too. ”Professor Nicolai Ognian was picked as a Durmstrang champion.” Did he need to know more? ”I know one of the tasks had to do with tunnels.”