Kyroh wiggled a bit in his seat. He actually wanted the music to turn back on. But he could still move to his own beat in his head right?

Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah?

Anyways the professor was talking and right away Kyroh's hand shot up quickly. "Basically like every instance and stuff before 1692 and the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy was put in place cause if they weren't then the Statute wouldn't be needed." It wasn't a SPECIFIC example but it was the first thing he thought of and that was good enough right?

Ravenclaw people were the best people. Maddie had decided this as she watched Nigel come in and then her big buddy, Mo. She even got a super wave from Freckles which was obviously returned. Thank goodness she didn't have any LAME-Os in her house, at least none she KNEW of. Made her proud to be an eagle, UH-HUH.

Something that made her amused were the entrances that had happened. She hadn't expected some of them and skateboard boy's was rather loud but at least she was entertained and THAT was really the most important thing, yes? Yes.

AND...their professor was a tap dancer. The small brunette considered her and decided she was TOO beamy and that it MIGHT come back to bite her in the bum, y'know? If MADDIE was the professor, she'd have started off STERN to show who the boss was and THEN be nice when people got the hint but THAT was just HER take on teaching. She was willing to see how THIS woman handled things, she GUESSED.

P.S. Maddie didn't have anything NEW to add to the discussion so she tapped her chin and tried to think of SOMETHING interesting to say. LIKE...UH...UM... "Do they have that disillusionment charm rule for Hippogriffs BECAUSE muggles once saw them and they don't want to let it happen again? That's why we do stuff, yeah? Cause we've learned we need to have rules like that to prevent things from happening AGAIN?" OH OH OH! "And you can't travel on Hippogriffs cause of what Freck-I mean Kyroh said so there's that."

Alright so onto the lesson. He saw the professor make her entrance and he was getting a good feel for her already. He liked the idea of experiencing it than taking notes after notes. But as he was doodling, he heard the professor ask a question. Kace raised his hand and said, "Professor I know at the 422nd Quidditch World Cup there was a whole lot of death eaters and they were torturing some of them by hanging them up in the air..." He knew this was the dark arts but this was something of wizarding history right?

Too bad they could not judge peoples entrances into the class. Have giant numbered signs like Gymnast judges had in those old movies. It would be awesome. He would have given Kyroh's an eight because of the difficult landing and many others were just as interesting.

Fun it was.

Now class is starting.

Oh, a specific question. Well that stunk. Vague answers were always so much more fun. Well...and that was all he had. So.....

"All the sightings of the Yeti."

That one actually caused a task force to be permanently set up there. Pretty Intense.
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Annabeth was still thinking about the "entrance" of everyone, lost in her thoughts. She barely noticed the teacher asking something.
She raised her hand and said, "At the end of the first wizard war, all wizards and witches believing that Lord Voldermort had died, celebrated it on everywhere. At the time, it was on Muggles's news that there were shooting stars down in Kent, flocks of owls flying here and there." She nodded with a grin on her face.

OOC: I'm thrilled I finally found time to post here. I thought I wouldn't join you guys this term. I beg you to not expect great posts from me, my life is truly hectic these days.

Hazel pulled her mind away from the entrances abruptly as the professor began to talk. She raised her hand eagerly. "At the end of the first… maybe the first… war, witches and wizards celebrated the 'defeat of Lord Voldemort'. Didn't Muggles notice and they got all suspicious or something?" She hoped her answer was at least partially correct. It sounded right, and she was pretty sure she heard one of her parents talking about it. She crossed her fingers.

Make an entrance. Yeahhhhh, Ascanius wasn't going to do that. After all, with his looks every single time he walked in a room constituted as an entrance. So no extra things today. Just his face.

You're welcome.

Once he settled in and the class began, Ascanius listened to the rest of his classmates talk about different events in history where Muggles had seen them. Not the best at hiding themselves, he supposed. Though it was a whole world of people. That kind of thing was bound to happen.

But he couldn't come up with one that hadn't already been listed. So he just remained silent.

The professor was AWFULLY chipper, and Mo couldn't help but grin at her enthusiasm. Like, seriously... History of Magic could tend to be dry, but it seemed Professor Glendower was going to take things in the opposite direction.

He nodded along with her introduction, and then sat back to hear what his classmates might come up with. Interesting, really, that Muggles were actually witness to magic fairly often. Did they not realize it, or where they all constantly being obliviated?

"What about the destruction of Brockdale Bridge during the second rise of the Dark Lord? I doubt the Muggles who saw it destroyed realized what was happening and knew it was magical, but they did witness it," Mo raised his hand and mused aloud.

No particularly impressive entrance from this Slytherin. And she was still confused about what entrances had to do with History of Magic in general or this topic in particular. Plus, the professor was way too cheerful for Layla's liking.

Wait, what?! Was this lady crazy?! No dates?! "B-but how are we supposed to put the events of history into context if we don't know the dates? Like, without dates, we won't have an understanding of why the people were acting the way they did and without that we can't learn from it or prevent it from happening again!" Yeah, she knew she was probably getting looks from her classmates, but she didn't care. Dates were important for the understanding of history and the teacher needed to realize that.

Could Professor Domingo please teach History of Magic too please?

Anyway, Layla didn't want to look like a completely horrible student, so she thought of an answer to the professor's question. "There was one in 1996 where the Death Eaters and some giants attacked a place in the West Country and wizards had to go in and make the muggles think it was a hurricane." Though, that was weird, considering that the only places that Layla had heard of having hurricanes before the odd weather events of the 2010s were the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Why did teachers ALWAYS ask questions before they actually taught stuff? Despite having private tutors for most of his life, Dima was clueless in all of his classes. He was SHAMING his nerd house, ok? Or it least it felt that way. Even the other first years knew things, and here he was blanking out.

C'mon, Toussaint. Think. Make up a fact. Say SOMETHING.

".... er... I think there was that one time when... uh.... you know that one Muggle guy, professor? You know who I'm talking about, right? I don't have to say his name? He saw.... um..... Harry Potter.... transfigure a cucumber into a.... uh... parakeet."

It had to have happened sometime, yeah?

Penelope looked in her copy of Hogwarts, A History for things that other people had not said. "I'm not sure if this counts, but there was this time in 2073 or 2074 when some muggles sort of wandered on to Hogwarts grounds. They probably saw magical things."

This guy was in her house. He was a Ravenclaw. What was his name? Penelope could only remember hearing professors address him as Mr. Toussaint or something like that. It looked like History of Magic was not his strongest subject. Who would transfigure a cucumber into a parakeet around muggles?

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Wait, what?! Was this lady crazy?! No dates?! "B-but how are we supposed to put the events of history into context if we don't know the dates? Like, without dates, we won't have an understanding of why the people were acting the way they did and without that we can't learn from it or prevent it from happening again!" Yeah, she knew she was probably getting looks from her classmates, but she didn't care. Dates were important for the understanding of history and the teacher needed to realize that.

Could Professor Domingo please teach History of Magic too please?

Anyway, Layla didn't want to look like a completely horrible student, so she thought of an answer to the professor's question. "There was one in 1996 where the Death Eaters and some giants attacked a place in the West Country and wizards had to go in and make the muggles think it was a hurricane." Though, that was weird, considering that the only places that Layla had heard of having hurricanes before the odd weather events of the 2010s were the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Whoa.. wait.. what? Nessa stared at the girl for a moment after her little outburst. While she could certainly appreciate such passion, it was perhaps ill-placed. Especially when she seemed to misunderstand. "Oh I didn't say you wouldn't be learning things such as dates, I said you wouldn't be simply memorizing." Did everyone misunderstand her words? Or just this one girl? Of course they wouldn't all be aware of her teaching style, but maybe she should clear that up at least for this girl if not for everyone. "Instead, my objectives for this class are that students immerse themselves in the stories of the past," she said a bit dramatically. "That way it's almost like it's happening to you or you are there in the moment, thereby enriching your understanding of those events. Of course you would learn about the people and places, the when, where, and why. This just makes history come to life!" The setting was always an important part of the story. And honestly, it wouldn't be much of a class if they didn't actually learn something. What did this girl think they were going to do? No wonder she was so concerned! Nessa gave her a reassuring smile.

And now, on to the girl's contribution. "Yes," she nodded. "Good example. Actions often have to be taken to cover up either unintentional or malicious acts of magic to give Muggles reasonable explanations for their occurrences." Not the one they'd be going into more in-depth today though.

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*running man*

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*.........half-hearted macarena*

....SIGH.

If she wasn't going to get dance move points, Zahra SUPPOSED she better try and answer questions. "How about.... like .... " specific specific... uhmm..... Zahra was thinking hard for a change, "OH this one time, like a long time ago, a DRAGON ATTACKED some muggles. DRAGON!"

OOOOO DRAGON.

Ah, yes.. another still moving to the beat of her own music. Such creative spirits she surely had in this class, how wonderful! Of course Nessa was willing to let this girl express herself through dance, she wouldn't have minded her continuing to do the macarena while providing her answer, if that was what she was so called to do. But.. oh.. finished? Alright.. Her eyes widened a bit as she contributed, then she nodded excitedly. "Yes! I love dragons, they always add such an element of excitement to a story. IN FACT.." Pause for dramatic effect. "A dragon will be the antagonist in today's story." Because..

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He raised his hand and gave it a try. "Professor, would the Ilfracombe Incident be an acceptable answer? It happened way back in 1932, when a Common Welsh Green dragon attacked a group of sunbathers at Ilfracombe. The attack was thwarted by the Toke wizarding family who had to cast a couple of Memory Charms on the group of muggles to make them forget about the incident," he said.

Professor Glendower could not be more delighted that this Slytherin boy brought up this event. The very event that she had in mind for today's lesson. "It absolutely is an acceptable answer," she beamed at the boy. "That is the very piece of history that we are going to delve into further today." How fun that he had guessed it!


Turning to the entire class to address them as a whole, Professor Glendower began quite enthusiastically. "So.. The Ilfacrombe Incident. Let's set the scene.. create a cast of characters.. what can you tell us at all about this moment in history?" Sure, the one boy mentioned it, but what else did they know? They needed to fill in a few more details before they could begin. "You can use your books again for this part if you need to."


OOC - Please name one fact, detail, whatever about this event (even something that had just been mentioned above). Feel free to make something up if you can rationalize it fitting in. But please, just one thing to give everyone a chance

Okay, so the Ilfacrombe Incident... Sophie didn't exactly know what that was, so she flipped open her textbook. Sure, some kid had rattled off 218372181 facts about it, but none of them were facts Sophie remembered. She found the page on the Ilfacrombe Incident and began skimming through it in search of something that other kid hadn't said.

She put her finger on a block of text to hold her place and raised her hand. "It says here that some Muggle named Dodgy Dork...err, Dirk...managed to escape having the Memory Charm cast on him, and he lived on to say a 'dirty, great flying lizard' injured him," she said. She lowered her hand. A dirty, great flying lizard? What...? PSH. This was coming from a man named Dodgy Dirk, so...what did she expect?

She'd made SUCH a good point, right? And she could TELL because the professor lady had agreed and everything! PLUS Freckles was right TOO and that meant they had some PRETTY smart people in their secret club. ALSO, Dima was pretty smart for making stuff up even if he DIDN'T know a real incident. Vague answers could work because chances are that SOMEWHERE, SOMETHING like that COULD have happened. UH-HUH.

Ilfacrombe was a FUNNY word. The small brunette said it over and over in her head until it started to sound weird to her and then she cracked a smile. Realizing that none of this was productive, she shook her head and straightened out again, eyes towards the front. They were doing WHAT now? Setting some kind of scene? Oh gosh, they weren't going to have to ACT this out, were they? Merlin.

Also, that student person had already set a pretty good scene, yeah? Sort of stole the thunder of anyone else wanting to have a go at answering NOW but she'd still give it a SHOT. Maddie had TONS of smart things to say. TONS.

"I read that THAT type of dragon is pretty quiet so it must have been pretty rare if a quiet breed of dragon went all nutso on a buncha sunbathers."

He was right! Look at that! Kyroh beamed but he had already KNOWN he was right anyways. So yeah. But so was Boddie! And Dima! Genius Ravenclaws future rulers of the world here.

Kyroh didn't really feel like he liked Zahra. But-dragons?

DRAGONS!?!?

The boy sat up in his chair a bit, and shifting himself so that he was no on his knees instead of his bum. DRAGONS!?! He KNEW about the Ilfacrombe incident not because of the boy who had said stuff earlier. And not because of History related reasons.

BUT BECAUSE OF DRAGONS

Create a cast of characters!? Kyroh looked toward Maddie and then frowned. No. No Boddie no. The boy's hand shot UP. "That Dragon didn't go nutso like Bod-Maddie said. The dragon was probably hurt and beaten up as a baby dragon so he took out all his aggression on the first people he saw BUT if he had been given hugs none of that would have happened." And THAT was what he could tell her about that moment in history.

OKAY!?

Poor Dragon.

Kyroh would have given him hugs.

Agatha listened as professor whateverhernamewas answered and commented the answers. So this teacher wanted them to immerse and feel like they were part of the history bit they would study? That sounded interesting. Until she mentioned that a dragon would be part of today's subject.

That did NOT mean she was bringing a REAL dragon in, RIGHT? Agatha staaaaaaaaared at the professor with wide eyes and looked behind her just to check. What a crazy woman. If there were really a dragon anywhere near... her uncle would know about that. And also, that meant she would need to find shelter behind an older student that wasn't Nigel.

The girl started scanning the room to find an older kid that would be stupid enough strong and smart enough to be her shield when the teacher asked another question. Agatha was too busy analysing each of her classmates to even pay attention or come up with an answer.

In the blink of an eye...... Zahra actually DID SOMETHING RIGHT IN A CLASS. The Professor was smiling and not taking points?!?!?!?!?

ANNNNNNNNNND.....

DRAGONS


Professor WhositwhatsitHistory just jumped to the TOP of the TEACHER list. Man. SO COOL.

"One time I thought I SAW a dragon, and I thought it set the GREENHOUSES here on fire. But it wasn't. Super disappointing."

You know, to add some history and because this Professor didn't hate Zahra it seemed.

The Whaaat incident? Ilfacrombe Incident? Adi had no idea what that was about so obviously he had to flip through his text book. Stopping at the page on the topic, he quickly scanned through the words.

"According to the book, Professor,'' the boy began with his hand in the air. "The Toke family casted the largest amount of Memory Charm ever in the twentieth Century.'' What an even that must have been!

Lucy looked the book:.."The Ilfracombe Incident occurred in 1932, when a rogue Common Welsh Green dragon attacked a group of sunbathers at Ilfracombe, in Devon, England. The attack was thwarted by the Toke wizarding family who also proceeded to cast the largest group of Memory Charms seen in the twentieth century.."Professor..but it could be a publicity stunt of these wizards to make a scoop?"

The Ilfacrombe Incident? Arista blinked... That was?? She flipped open her textbook, guess she had to read it was no stopping it. She quickly scanned the page and nodded.. Hmmm.

"So a dragon went all nuts probably because he wasn't treated right and attacked some muggles luckily for those muggles sake the Toke family was there... Is it possible that the Toke Family released the dragon and then saved the day to get some credit in the Wizarding World?"

HOLD the SNITCH.

Had Freckles just told the ENTIRE class that she was WRONG? Wow. Way to make her look dumb, Kyroh. The brunette's expression turned stony and she looked away from him, ignoring all the business about hugging because you DIDN'T just go around hugging dragons.

...Maybe some person hugged the POOR THING and scarred it for life so it attacked cause of THAT. Yeah. YEAH.

Stupid hugs. Not that she was upset or anything, OBVIOUSLY.

Grayson smirked at the Professor's response. Very good was MUCH better than nothing. He flipped open his journal and made a small note of whatever it is that he had said before, along with whatever the Professor had said. He wanted there to be more info about this particular event, especially if it was juicy and had caused oh-so-much drama. There HAD to be something about this SOMEWHERE.

HOLY FREAKING MERLIN! THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT DRAGONS!

DRAGOOOOOOOOOOOOONS!

And the............. Common Welsh Green. It wasn't the most ferocious of dragons but it was a DRAGON nonetheless and so, Grayson was happy with this topic. Uh huh. As for what he knew about the Ilfracombe Incident............... well. Everything he knew was said so he couldn't possibly pull out something new from the top of his head. No. The boy was almost about to flip the pages of his textbook when...........

.............. oh helloooooooooo. Are we having a discussion?

"If it was a publicity stunt, maybe they knew to let someone get away so that their story would end up being valid." Uh huh. Because no story was a valid story without witnesses. He knew that.

Talk about a horrible day to go sunbathing. They could not have picked a better spot in the whole world. Really. Dragons were alright. He enjoyed viewing them from a safe distance and not having to feed them. Create the characters. Well Nigel could create the sunbathers.

Easy enough.

"Some people just have bad luck at picking days to sunbath. Unless they wanted to get roasted or something"

Still the Ilfacrombe Incident is a mouthful to say. Couldn't they have abbreviated it or something. Dragon Incident. Sounded a lot better. Nigel just did not want to keep on saying Ilfacrombe.

Dragons, hmm? Dragons were super exciting, and Mo's interest was totally caught at the prospect of dragon-related discussion. Draaaaagons. He could tell that his Ravenclaw ickles were caught up too, even if Maddie was throwing dagger looks at Kyroh.

Intervention was required.

He raised his hand. "Professor, the text says that a vacationing Wizarding family Obliviated the Muggles who saw the dragon that day, but it doesn't say if any of them were professional Ministry Obliviators. Does that suggest that we all should become skilled at Obliviating just in case, or is that regulated by the Ministry?"

Hmmm...it looked like everyone seemed to know alot about that infamous day in history but Cris still raised his hand to share what he knew.

"Professor, because of their brave actions and quick thinking, the Toke family were awarded the Orders of Merlin, First Class. I guess that was also to partly award them for giving up their holiday too," Cris added.