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Despite the chilly Fall air, the arena windows were wide open, letting the morning sunlight pour into the room and light up the stone floors while the earthy aroma of the great outdoors twirled under noses. Flickers of dust particles floated through the shafts of light with a glow; enchanting almost. Purple mats and small desks that looked more like stools were laid evenly in three rows in the middle of the arena. Professor Romanos herself was sitting on her own mat at the front of the class, lotus style, giving each student a warm smile as they passed by.
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Norah wasn't completely sure about this one, but everyone else's answers didn't seem quiiiite right to her. She got the dead souls one, but why would you call someone cold just because their blood wasn't pumping? Nobody had ever called her warm soul, and she had been around for eleven years. That's a lot of years, yep. She raised her hand tentatively to venture a guess. "Well, whenever I'm outside my mum tells me to put on a jumper so I don't catch a cold. Maybe since they're dead they don't wear their jumpers and they catch colds?" Wait. That didn't seem right. When she did catch a cold her head got all hot. She blushed and continued, as not to sound totally stupid, "Or maybe it's because of that blood thing, because that makes sense. Or maybe...nevermind." SIGH.
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They were going in circles. Ethan took down notes and drew the zombie arm on his notebook as he listened to his classmate’s answers. Why were they called that?
Because they’re dead. Zombies and or dead people aren't warm and cuddly, right?
The Slytherin just shrugged and waited for the practical exercise of the class. That is, if they were even going to have one.
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The Gryffindor wrinkled his nose when the Astronomy Professor had decided to stay in the class and it made him annoyed. This wasn't his lesson was it? But atleast he had stopped that ridiculous dancing...had it even BEEN dancing though? It looked more like he had been jinxed by the Tarantellegra spell.
Trying to focus his attention to the lesson, Kevin thought for the answer to the next question. Why they were called the *cold ones*? Scratching his neck, he then shrugged and without raising his hand he said. "Maybe because the cold ones died during winter so they are cold?" no judging okay? he was trying!
Angel smiled at the Professor and raised her hand. "Professor maybe because they got cold when they died and so they are all dry and wrinkly now." Angel had no idea if she was right or not but she would guess that and she thought it was a good answer.
Did anyone else think that the Cold Ones sounded a bit like White Walkers? Winter was coming and all that nonsense? No? Fine. S'just him then.
He wasn't going to comment on the actual question though, y'know? 'Cause he felt like the answer was obvious. They were dead. And people sometimes called other beings souls or whatever. Hence Dead Souls.
And cold ones made logical sense too. C'mon Romanos.
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Still sipping on his water he stopped to listen to the question... Slowly Bay raised his hand. "maybe their called that because they have no pulse? And since they have no blood flow to their brain or heart they cannot think or say anything other than grunting for them selves. This would make them cold "
Okay now he was starting to feel better. The arm was in a little bubble and he couldnt smell it anymore which is what made him sick in the first place. The sight of it did nothing for Bay. He was still sweating though so he took his sleeve from his robe and wiped his face with it, he will have to remind himself to take a bath or shower later because he was starting to frel grose.
Tora might be talkative in other classes, but this one she just gave up on trying to give a good answer. It was hard to believe, but after three years at Hogwarts she certainly didn't know anything about the undead or the "Cold Ones" or anything else dead. Or living. Care of Magical Creatures was another struggle class for her. Oh well. She finally tugged out her parchment and, because she was by the window and the ink would dry quickly, a quill and ink. She set them on the floor next to her mat to use as a hard writing surface and proceeded to take notes. Lots of notes. Because she knew nothing.
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Oh, they weren't gonna focus on zombies? Good, 'cause Penelope wasn't a fan of them. For lots of reasons. And they were gonna talk about something that wasn't in the book? Even better.
She wasn't gonna answer though since most people covered what she would've said. It DID seem pretty self-explanatory after all. Unless there was some sort of twist that she wasn't aware of. Maybe the Norwegians wanted to be ironic and call them cold or dead when they were actually warm or alive. Kinda like Iceland and Greenland. She didn't know.
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Toby's left hand was up in the air again, whilst he continued idly bouncing his quill between the thumb and forefinger of his right.
"A lot of the time, people relate coldness, as in temperature and weather, to Dark things, so it could be that. I know that inferi hate the warmth and light and can be fought with fire, and zombies are sort of the same, right? Re-animated dead and all. They could be called the Cold Ones because they sort of 'prefer' the cold and are repelled or defeated by fire?"
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Kace thought about the answers and thought the cold ones answer was pretty self explanatory. He smiled when the first year ravenclaw caught onto that one. Now it was his turn. He raised his hand, "Professor i think they are called Inferi because they are sent to do a Dark Wizards bidding. They have control over them." That is basically what he knew for now.
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Usually, Grayson didn't like classes that were just theory-based. Discussions were alright, depending on the topic, but lectures? No thank you. He hardly even liked the idea of taking notes, either. Therefore, it was a wonder that he was able to pay so much attention and was willingly taking as many notes as he could. The theories that were SMART and ones he agreed with were being taken note of, too.
But then again, ZOMBIES.
He also made a note to draw something zombie based later to go with the notes.
Wait, were they done talking about zombies in particular? Shame. The fourth year turned a page in his journal and wrote the words DEAD SOULS/THE COLD ONES, because apparently, that's what they were going to go and talk about. Dead Souls. Cold Ones. Why were they called that? The boy paused for a moment to think, even tapping the end of his quill against his chin as he did so. The only thing he could link this too was the idea of someone being brutally honest and being called cold hearted in the process.
Oh look, somebody was being smart. "I like the idea of the soul not being there in these type of creatures," he said, his hand in the air, "I mean, okay. They don't have feelings and they don't have a sense of belonging. They just go about and do their bad deeds. They're technically not 'living' in the correct sense. It makes sense that they won't have a soul either."
"OR." Oh jeez. OH MERLIN. He had a theory! "The doxy bite for zombies or the dark magic that Inferi or maybe any other kind of magic that these creatures are placed under could, I dunno, crush the soul? Overcome it, maybe? So maybe that's why they're called Dead Souls. Because even if they still have souls," Which he doubted. "It doesn't play a major role in their day to day lives. It's just there."
The Slytherins, it seemed had something of an edge in such topics of morbidity. Cutty's hand was about to take a break from note-taking and go up to volunteer an answer, when he heard one such fellow Slytherin student mention something that hit a little too close to home.
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Wait, were they done talking about zombies in particular? Shame. The fourth year turned a page in his journal and wrote the words DEAD SOULS/THE COLD ONES, because apparently, that's what they were going to go and talk about. Dead Souls. Cold Ones. Why were they called that? The boy paused for a moment to think, even tapping the end of his quill against his chin as he did so. The only thing he could link this too was the idea of someone being brutally honest and being called cold hearted in the process.
Oh look, somebody was being smart. "I like the idea of the soul not being there in these type of creatures," he said, his hand in the air, "I mean, okay. They don't have feelings and they don't have a sense of belonging. They just go about and do their bad deeds. They're technically not 'living' in the correct sense. It makes sense that they won't have a soul either."
"OR." Oh jeez. OH MERLIN. He had a theory! "The doxy bite for zombies or the dark magic that Inferi or maybe any other kind of magic that these creatures are placed under could, I dunno, crush the soul? Overcome it, maybe? So maybe that's why they're called Dead Souls. Because even if they still have souls," Which he doubted. "It doesn't play a major role in their day to day lives. It's just there."
He liked this topic VERY MUCH, can you tell?
They don't have feelings....
They don't have a sense of belonging....
Cutty's raised hand floated down to his quill and he continued taking notes on the things Whitty was saying. He had always known there to be something unusual about his take on things. Or at least, the adults in his life had tried to make him feel that way. But, it tended not to work out, at least, not in their favour. More often, it served to teach Cutty their expectation, which he would then act out in order to get them off of his case.
The boy's hand raised up again and this time he tried adding to the discussion, apparently unperturbed by the idea that these creatures sounded not too unlike himself in some ways. "Professor, in other fields of Magical Academia, the word 'cold' implies absence. So couldn't a Cold One or Dead Soul be anything, man or beast, born with the absence of a soul? Or, perhaps having an undeveloped soul? And,..." He crinkled his nose a bit at his next question. "Couldn't...Could someone ever be caught in the middle?"
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Did dead things even have souls? Was that allowed?
But if they didn't have souls they wouldn't be called 'dead souls', would they? That kind of implies that they do have souls? But that they're dead? And things die all of the time. So maybe souls can die too? Of old age? Natural causes? Murder? Suicide? These all HAD to be possibilities. Or at least that's all the clueless Gryffindor could come up with. "... Um, did their souls get murdered? Or die of natural causes or something? Is that why they're called 'dead souls'?" Eh. At least he was trying.
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SPOILER!!: Because they're soulless
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Yeah, okay. This topic was getting grosser and grosser as time went on. If the Professor didn't stop this discussion soon, Bay wouldn't be the only person throwing up in class.
With one arm still around her boyfriend, she raised her hand yet again to answer the next question. "Maybe they are called dead souls because they don't have souls anymore...since they are dead." Honestly, she had no idea.
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The Cold Ones? Dead Souls? One sounded like a nice cold soda and the other, the name of a band. However, Cris was too smart to know that neither one was the answer Professor Romanos was seeking. So he put on his thinking cap and when he figured out a plausible answer, he raised his hand.
"Could they be called Dead Souls because unlike most living creatures whose souls leave them when they die, somehow, for some unknown reason, their souls remained in their bodies? Only instead of a living soul, you have a dead one. Hence the unfeeling, immune to pain, without any brain activity, zombie we all know."
"That could also be connected with the Cold Ones name. Cold as is unfeeling?" Cris concluded.
Then it dawned on him that Professor Romanos had mentioned they came from Norway. Wait! Say what? They came from his birth home? They were real?
Raising up his hand again, he asked, "Um...Professor do you happen to know whether these Døde Sjeler still walk there and if so, um...which part of Norway?" Cris really wanted to know. If they still existed, where they roamed would be the last place he'd be going any time soon...like ever!!
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Honestly, the further they got from discussing zombies and therefore even indirectly the disastrous end to the Peru trip the better, at least as far as Lily had been concerned. She’d taken to holding her breath when Professor Flamsteed’s trophy had started to smell, anyhow, which explained her silence during all the discussion about said arm. She couldn’t exactly hold her breath and answer questions very well, after all, and she’d felt like trying to cast a silent Bubble-Head charm might have been frowned upon as well. Therefore, she had remained silent until the arm had been neutralized, or at least the smell of the arm had been, and then she’d tried to unobtrusively take a large breath of air. Now she could actually breathe again, and also concentrate on more than just not turning as blue as the crest on her robes.
Plus, the idea of learning about a subject that wasn’t even discussed in their textbooks intrigued her. Any time something like that was a possibility was interesting to her. Yet, aside from Beverly’s mention of dementors and the chill they always brought along with them, she wondered why exactly the døde sjeler were any different than vampires or zombies. Bits of a story her sister had rambled on about the last time she’d spoken to her family back home kept trickling into her head, of White Walkers and the like, but she decided to try a different theory. “Maybe they never had souls at all,” she said, raising her hand. An idea had definitely come to mind that wasn’t completely fictional. “I mean, zombies, inferi, even vampires were actual people at one point, or at least I think they were, so they had souls that left their bodies but are still around somewhere, or even still have them but they’re twisted in some way. Souls are sort of what makes up alive, but if there was a creature that had never had a soul at all, that would definitely be dark, dead. Wouldn’t it?”
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Jasmine was not particularly squemish, but all this zombie talk was getting pretty gross. She really didn't need to be reminded of their close encounter of the undead kind in Peru. Apparently poor Bay didn't need to be reminded of it either. She felt badly for him, but at least he was being well taken care of. Friends were good.
Zombie smells, really? There was only one zombie smell and that was BAD. Of course there were different levels of bad, but still. When the Professor mentioned the Døde Sjeler, Jasmine was intrigued. She was not familiar with the Norwegian Dead Souls. She looked over at Cris with raised eyebrows. From his reaction, seemed that he hadn't heard of them either.
Jasmine listened to her classmates give their theories on the topic. All of the rational answers had already been presented. Since this class couldn't possibly get any crazier, she raised her hand and took a shot. "Maybe they were called that because they somehow had their soul, life force, warmth taken from their body kind of like with a dementor. They were left with a soulless shell of a body, so no warmth.......and it was Norway......so it was.......cold. Jasmine listened to herself and realized how ridiculous she sounded. Well she was nothing if not imaginative.
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Oh look, somebody was being smart. "I like the idea of the soul not being there in these type of creatures," he said, his hand in the air, "I mean, okay. They don't have feelings and they don't have a sense of belonging. They just go about and do their bad deeds. They're technically not 'living' in the correct sense. It makes sense that they won't have a soul either."
"OR." Oh jeez. OH MERLIN. He had a theory! "The doxy bite for zombies or the dark magic that Inferi or maybe any other kind of magic that these creatures are placed under could, I dunno, crush the soul? Overcome it, maybe? So maybe that's why they're called Dead Souls. Because even if they still have souls," Which he doubted. "It doesn't play a major role in their day to day lives. It's just there."
He liked this topic VERY MUCH, can you tell?
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Cutty's raised hand floated down to his quill and he continued taking notes on the things Whitty was saying. He had always known there to be something unusual about his take on things. Or at least, the adults in his life had tried to make him feel that way. But, it tended not to work out, at least, not in their favour. More often, it served to teach Cutty their expectation, which he would then act out in order to get them off of his case.
The boy's hand raised up again and this time he tried adding to the discussion, apparently unperturbed by the idea that these creatures sounded not too unlike himself in some ways. "Professor, in other fields of Magical Academia, the word 'cold' implies absence. So couldn't a Cold One or Dead Soul be anything, man or beast, born with the absence of a soul? Or, perhaps having an undeveloped soul? And,..." He crinkled his nose a bit at his next question. "Couldn't...Could someone ever be caught in the middle?"
"It would most certainly be a logical reason for calling them Dead Souls, wouldn't it?" she slowly nodded. "Especially when we keep in mind, to become an undead, you would essentially need to be deceased first. Which would imply...that your soul, or life force, no longer resides in your body." Or so research states. "Except for vampires. They're an entirely different story." One that wouldn't be gone over during this particular lesson.
"On the other hand, also something to keep in mind..." Paaaause. "I never did say they were from Norway. It may be the country's official language, though it's not necessary bound to it. But, Mister Strand, I can say that very few of these creatures still exist. The reason for their few numbers however, we'll go into in just a minute."
Turning her focus to Cutty, her eyebrows knitted together momentarily. "Can you expand on what you mean by caught in the middle, Mister Mordaunt?"
SPOILER!!: Because dementors, cold-hearted people, and other things
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There were several things that crossed this Slytherin's mind. First, she would be extra careful when her brother took her North America again. Second, she would need some sort of sword in case she needed to fight off a hoard of zombies. Third, she had a once removed cousin who apparently had been turned into a vampire and his birthday was coming up. Fourth, she needed to send him a present.
After sorting that out, Beverly thought the question over. If 'The Cold Ones' weren't in her book then she didn't know about them. And if she didn't know about them then she couldn't answer the question. See her problem? But they were guessing. She could do that. Hand in the air again.
"Is it because they suck all the happiness and leave a cold trail behind without purpose? Like...zombie Dementors?" Did that make sense?
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Oh Dima was sniffing too? Could he smell his natural human scent? Kyroh sniffed back. Yeah Dima was no zombie.
Turning his attention back to the Professor he raised his hand. "Cause the people in Norwegian are unimaginative maybe?"
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Ummm... the first thought that came to her mind was definitely the whole 'because they are literally cold' but somebody had already beat that to her and she was sure that the professor didn't really appreciate that kind of answer anyway. AJ had never heard of what she was talking about before so she basically had to use context clues and give it her best go.
She raised her hand. "Maybe because during their life they were cold beings, like rude and evil and just plain nasty." There were other ways to be cold other than the temperature.
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Whoa. Where had the time gone? Sophie had been so busy watching Professor Flamsteed dance around the room like a chicken that she'd missed at least two questions. Hmph. Professor Flamsteed, causing kids to fail their classes since 2083.
Sophie tuned back in to the lesson just in time to hear Professor Romanos say something about Dead Souls and Cold Ones. Sophie thought about her question then raised her hand.
"Is it in reference to their dead souls? As in, they have a 'cold soul'?" she asked. Then realizing that didn't make much sense, she added, "I mean...if a person doesn't have a soul, they can't feel many emotions, so they've gone cold in a different sense than body temperature."
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"Are they like the people who had their souls sucked out by Dementors?" Agatha asked without giving an answer to professor Romanos' question first.
It kind of sounded obvious why they were called that, as most people made sure to point out. If she had to guess, she would also go for the whole 'their body is cold' type of answer. But then again, repeating what others said would be silly.
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Norah wasn't completely sure about this one, but everyone else's answers didn't seem quiiiite right to her. She got the dead souls one, but why would you call someone cold just because their blood wasn't pumping? Nobody had ever called her warm soul, and she had been around for eleven years. That's a lot of years, yep. She raised her hand tentatively to venture a guess. "Well, whenever I'm outside my mum tells me to put on a jumper so I don't catch a cold. Maybe since they're dead they don't wear their jumpers and they catch colds?" Wait. That didn't seem right. When she did catch a cold her head got all hot. She blushed and continued, as not to sound totally stupid, "Or maybe it's because of that blood thing, because that makes sense. Or maybe...nevermind." SIGH.
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Still sipping on his water he stopped to listen to the question... Slowly Bay raised his hand. "maybe their called that because they have no pulse? And since they have no blood flow to their brain or heart they cannot think or say anything other than grunting for them selves. This would make them cold "
Okay now he was starting to feel better. The arm was in a little bubble and he couldnt smell it anymore which is what made him sick in the first place. The sight of it did nothing for Bay. He was still sweating though so he took his sleeve from his robe and wiped his face with it, he will have to remind himself to take a bath or shower later because he was starting to frel grose.
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Toby's left hand was up in the air again, whilst he continued idly bouncing his quill between the thumb and forefinger of his right.
"A lot of the time, people relate coldness, as in temperature and weather, to Dark things, so it could be that. I know that inferi hate the warmth and light and can be fought with fire, and zombies are sort of the same, right? Re-animated dead and all. They could be called the Cold Ones because they sort of 'prefer' the cold and are repelled or defeated by fire?"
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Kace thought about the answers and thought the cold ones answer was pretty self explanatory. He smiled when the first year ravenclaw caught onto that one. Now it was his turn. He raised his hand, "Professor i think they are called Inferi because they are sent to do a Dark Wizards bidding. They have control over them." That is basically what he knew for now.
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Did dead things even have souls? Was that allowed?
But if they didn't have souls they wouldn't be called 'dead souls', would they? That kind of implies that they do have souls? But that they're dead? And things die all of the time. So maybe souls can die too? Of old age? Natural causes? Murder? Suicide? These all HAD to be possibilities. Or at least that's all the clueless Gryffindor could come up with. "... Um, did their souls get murdered? Or die of natural causes or something? Is that why they're called 'dead souls'?" Eh. At least he was trying.
Oh she did love the creative answers.
"Very funny, Mister Scabior." Har har. "And we're on a different topic, Mister Lecium." she smiled and nodded towards the Hufflepuff before moving on. Pay extra close attention! "Though, unfortunately...because I do love the answers that were given, the name doesn't exactly pertain to illnesses, cold feelings, or dementors, however closely connected they may seem when we get into further discussion."
Which they'll see in just a short bit.
SPOILER!!: Because they're cold
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Ew. This lesson was getting worse. Penelope wasn't sure if she could take it anymore. Dead souls? Cold ones? "Maybe they are called 'cold ones' because they are cold," Penelope said.
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Maybe, maybe, she did squeal a bit in her head, because... Delilah Starr, where are you???!? She couldn't help but remember those who lived beyond the wall, the Others, and... hehehe... so she was smiling widely when she raised her hand. Though her words did not match her excitement and gave nothing away, this was a different story, after all. Only she was reminded of something awesome, was this awesome as well? Probably not.
So, hand up. "Well, 'Dead Souls' seems rather obvious...," aren't they dead, therefore soul-less? "...as 'The Cold Ones' does, they could be referring to their body temperature, since our temperature drops when we die. No blood going nowhere to keep us warm."No boyfriend either. Makes sense. But there are different types of dead and different types of cold, like that Hufflepuff boy had suggested.
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Lucy raised her wand and said:" The cold-ones could be the cold-blooded creatures, like the reptiles or the vampires?"
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Richard had been quiet throughout the lesson, mainly because it was really hard to breathe through the horrible smell coming from the zombified arm. He had just been trying to save oxygen, you see? That, however, didn't mean he wasn't paying attention. Oh, he was on the edge of his seat, bouncing randomly and taking notes faster than he ever bothered to.
Now this was an interesting lesson. Hah!
His knowledge on the Cold Ones with the weird different one was ... well, non existent, really. But Professor Romanos has asked them to venture a guess. He could do that. Raising his head, he got ready to venture a guess. Or two. "Professor, are they called the Cold Ones because ... well, they're cold? And dead. Oh, or is it because Norway is cold, isn't it? Maybe they just can't warm up nicely because Norway is really cold." Norway must suck. Scotland was cold enough for him, thank you very much. "Or they could be called the cold ones because they're kind of rude and snobby and so people just don't like them.."
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Okay so MAYBE Maddie wasn't aware of her own scent but she COULD guess and she guessed that she smelled AWESOME! It's cause there was SO much awesome inside her that it had to come out sometime and she imagined it came out smelling beautifully! And so when Dima began sniffing her and Freckles, she simply smiled and shrugged. That's it, go on and get a whiff of awesome. Maybe then you'll be even more awesome TOO! She gave Dima a quick smell in return just to see and then a thumbs up. He DIDN'T stink as boys sometimes did so well done!
Maddie didn't know about soul-less things or cold ones but she DID have an idea. Hand went up and when it was her turn, she simply said, "Maybe they're called that because they make YOU cold when they turn up in your area." UH-HUH. Like that girl said about the Dementors.
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The Gryffindor wrinkled his nose when the Astronomy Professor had decided to stay in the class and it made him annoyed. This wasn't his lesson was it? But atleast he had stopped that ridiculous dancing...had it even BEEN dancing though? It looked more like he had been jinxed by the Tarantellegra spell.
Trying to focus his attention to the lesson, Kevin thought for the answer to the next question. Why they were called the *cold ones*? Scratching his neck, he then shrugged and without raising his hand he said. "Maybe because the cold ones died during winter so they are cold?" no judging okay? he was trying!
DING DING!
"Correct. Simply, they are called The Cold Ones due to their drastic chilled temperatures. Keep in mind though, they weren't originally named by witches or wizards. Even so, that doesn't mean witches and wizards weren't a part of their history either. In fact, like zombies, these particular creatures were once magical beings like you and I as well." Taking a moment's time, she waved her wand around the floating zombie arm. Quickly, it became even more pale and turned a tinge of blue, icing over from the tips of the fingertips, to the broken edge where the elbow should be.
"They look something similar to this." She pointed to the iced over arm. "And while we know their place of origin, which is Antarctica, the dawn of their creation is still...unknown. What has been hypothesized however, is back in the 17th century, when talks of the deathly hallows still lingered on the air, an experiment to re-create the resurrection stone had gone wrong and ended up leaking into the ice. And for those witches and wizards who did not make it through the cold, who had laid rest in the very same ice, eventually became the Døde Sjeler."
At that, Toby stretched his hand up into the air again.
"No."
Well, it was an answer, right? He lowered his hand again and went back to fiddling with his quill whilst he bounced his knees up and down. Would there be a practical portion today? Oh hey, maybe that could have been his question. Too late now, though.
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"Correct. Simply, they are called The Cold Ones due to their drastic chilled temperatures. Keep in mind though, they weren't originally named by witches or wizards.
Nothing was really achieved by the sniffing... 'cept he was pretty sure his friends weren't zombies now.
Always a good thing to know!
"Then who named them, ma'am?" Dima asked, squinting a little. Had she already said that? Had he just missed it while trying to get rest? How was this gonna help them defeat bad guys again? Was the professor lady gonna set a hoard of ZOMBIES on 'em? Who could he hide behind?
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So they were just cold, not some mutated-zombied Dementor? That was a good thing she supposed. Less freaky stuff in this world was better, even if mutated-zombied Dementors sounded interesting enough to kick butt.
Twisting a strand of her hair between her fingers, Beverly shook her head. Nope, no questions.
Thinks the Dode Sjellar are indeed the Whitewalkers xD
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Relieved to hear that the latest strain of zombies didn't emanate from Norway, Cris was more than happy to ignore the insult the young Ravenclaw had directed at his fellow countrymen. Knowing that the boy meant no disrespect...at least that's what he hoped, Cris decided to let that insult slide.
Directing his attention back to Professor Romanos, he listened as she explained how the Dode Sjeler came to being. Hmmm...possibly as a result of the Resurrection Stone's power gone awry. Very interesting indeed. He never knew that there were so many varieties of Zombies. But yes he had a question...well maybe three....to ask. Raising his hand, he blurted them out.
"Professor, I know the movie industry is known to distort facts but I was wondering, being dead and all, do zombies still need to eat in order to stay alive...I mean continue to exist? If yes, are they
strictly carnivores, or will they eat anything living, even plants? And where do you think the zombies we encountered in Peru originated from? Are they part of the North American strain or were they conjured up by El Hombre Dorado himself to guard his hidden treasures?"
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Ooooh questions! Norah could do that, especially considering the whole giving answer part of the class hadn't quite worked out for her yet. She put her hand in the air and asked, "But why is it so...white?" Was it okay to ask why someone is white?
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Meh. Those dead things literally were named because of their temperatures. Adi would have suggested it was because they were cold- meaning they didn't have feelings at all and wouldn't be bothered with anything bad they did to others.
Ah well. As for questions..Nope. He had none so he shook his head. Let's move on!
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Bay listened as best as he could and he made a mental note not to go to Antartica. He raised his hand out of habit. "No Professor, I don't have any questions" he replied like the rest were.
Wondering where this class was going he hoped that he didn't have to smell like a zombie and put to the test being around them.
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Nope no questions from Zander. He chose to keep to the answering. Really he wasn't too interested in the undead. So he'd just do minimal talking, thank-you-very-much. In the spare time, however, he began drawing a few doodles on his parchment. One of a zombie, one of a vampire, what he imagined a "dead soul" to look like. This class just gave him so many ideas.
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This was some fascinating stuff right here. Granted she didn't think she'd ever run into zombies...or cold ones...or anything undead but still, it was fascinating in itself and the Gryffindor was busy trying scribbling down everything she could. Lex may not have had major exams to worry about just now but that didn't dull her interest, not when it came to DADA.
"No questions really. No."
Just go on, she was ALL EARS to this stuff. Never knew when it come in handy for saving someone else's life, because again, her chances of running into these things were slim to none. Her travels didn't usually take her to cold places like they all seemed to be talking about.
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Gahhhh. Marigold's nose itched and her hand was cramping from all the notes she was taking because she kept getting distracted by Airey and having to catch up. Humph. Don't worry. She still loved the Astronomy professor. She finally finished her notes with a flourish, then nearly knocked over her inkwell when she heard that girl - whatserface - the one she met at the feast - talking about jumpers. She snorted a little. She wasn't making fun, it was just that girl was too cute to be allowed. She got an extra grinny Marigold at that statement.
BUT QUESTION TIME. She raised her hand thankfully. "YEAH. How do you spell the Dodee Norwegian thing? I know it starts with a 'D'..." Spelling. Check it.
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Okay, she was NOT turning her attention to the arm again. Once had been more than enough. The more the Professor talked about zombies, the less Lux liked them. Until now, she did not know anything about them other than they were walking corpses, and she wished she could have remained ignorant when it came to this subject.
With a shake of her head, she expressed that NO, she did not have any questions. Would this lesson be over soon? For once she was not looking forward to the practical, out of fear regarding what it was composed of.
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