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History of Magic Lesson One Walking down the first floor corridor, you hear the faint sounds of a song which gradually gets louder until you reach the History of Magic classroom. Not only does the music seem to be coming from the room, but you are also greeted with a large sign hanging outside the door.Class Progression Post One Post Two Post Three Post Four Post Five Post Six |
Simon followed the faint sounds of a familiar tune to his next classroom. HE KNEW THAT SONG! It was an old song but he couldn't place the name of it. History of Magic. He stopped in his tracks when he saw the sign and spent a couple minutes studying the sign. 'Make an Entrance?' What did that mean? Did he have to go in there dancing or something? :blink: Merlin, he hoped not. As he stared at the sign, he stepped in time to the beat. It was so catchy and it just made him feel as if he wanted to dance. Taking one look around him, he decided to open the door to the History of Magic classroom and enter dancing along to the beat of the song for the bit. He felt like a complete idiot for a couple of seconds as he did this, but soon enough, he started not to care anymore. He threw his arms into the air just let go of all his worried for once. Then a thought passed through his mind. Where was the Professor? He peeked around the classroom. He became quite red in his cheeks. "Hello?" he said before taking his seat in one of the desk-arm chairs. He was the first one here so he pulled his notebook out of his bag and began writing down some notes. |
Cris found his way to the History of Magic classroom, just by following his ears. The sound of a familiar song reached his ears as he entered the first floor corridor and he knew that there would be only one class that would have music that came from another era. Lip syncing the words to the song, and bouncing in time to the song, he walked into the classroom passing by a large sign hanging outside the door that said Make An Entrance. Grinning, he did just that. He danced all the way into the classroom, mixing hip hop moves with a style all his own. When he reached one of the deck-arm chairs provided, he did a 360 degree twirl before sitting down. Cris was so immersed in his dancing that he didn't notice the Professor wasn't present until now. He looked around just to make sure he hadn't danced right past him. Nope...no one here except a Slytherin and him. "Hello, " he greeted the young Slytherin with a smile and a nod. Then he pulled out his History of Magic textbook and prepared for the lesson proper. |
That song was familiar. Very...HAPPY! Adi grinned. That song often reminded the boy of himself. He was always happy. Hehe. Following the music, he was surprised to see it lead right to where he was headed- the History of Magic classroom. He eyed the sign. Right. He was just going to calmly enter the classroom. He wasn't going to do anything that made him look ridiculous. Just a nice, calm and cool entry. Okay, fine maybe he did do a couple of steps in time with the music but that was it. Adi looked around, expecting to see the Professor but he only saw a Slytherin guy and Cris. "Hey, there,'' he said tot he SLytherin as he made his way over to one of the chairs. "Hi, Cris!'' |
Was that her theme song playing? Okay, Lux didn't really have a theme song, but Happy really did describe her well since she was almost always HAPPY. Singing along to the music, Lux entered the room while doing a little dance. She could totally groove along to music in every lesson. Spotting Adi, she gave him a friendly wave before plopping down in one of the seats. Where was the Professor? |
As Kace was making his way to the History of Magic classroom, he heard a song that was familiar. He tapped his foot and made him want to dance. As he smiled and walked into the classroom, he noticed the teacher wasn't there. He looked around and noticed a few people made it here. He seemed a bit early. He saw Adi and sat next to him. "Hey Adi! Do you know where the professor is?" he greeted his friend. He had not talked to him in a while. Then he saw Lux, he smiled and waved to her. "Hey Lux!! " |
As Nathan walked down the corridor towards the classroom, he couldn't help but start humming the AMAZING song being played. It was a great song, always cheering nearly everyone up, and extremely annoying the rest of the poor, unfortunate souls who didn't have a taste in music. He walked into the classroom with a smile on his face and unconsciously whistling to the tune. He nodded to everyone else already in the classroom, gaving them a wave as he didn't really know anyone. He took a seat and pulled out his textbook and items for writing notes. Better to be prepared so he could enjoy the song more |
Dec heard the song from down the corridor and wasn't surprised to find it was the classroom he was heading into anyways. Stopping at the door, he read the sign out loud to himself, "Make an Entrance..." Did the professor expect him to dance his way in?? Or announce that the devilishly handsome, Declan Hazelwood, had arrived? 'Cos, honestly, didn't everyone already know that? No need to express it. He was trying to be humble for Merlin's sake! Alright...should he pop, lock, and drop inside, moonwalk in, do the Carlton, or how about...just walk in? YES. Walking in normally is just fine. He had natural born swagger anyways. Walk, walk, fashion, baby... Walk, walk, to that seat in the corner, baby. |
LAST time Maddie had made an entrance into a class, it had been with DIMA and someone's TROUSERS had been set on FIRE so no, no big attention grabbing entrance for HER. She DID bob her head involuntarily to the catchy beat of the song playing and quietly took up a seat next to the boy she'd once worked with in potions. Older guy, he was. YO. Where was the professor, anyway? |
Oh. Sweet. MERLIN. There was MUSIC playing somewhere here? Who was hosting a party? And, more importantly, why hadn't he been invited, eh? He was slightly disappointed with how happy this song sounded but he could deal with that. He just wanted to find the place where this was coming from. Grayson stopped in his tracks to listen out for it to see where it was coming from. And then he took another couple of steps. And then he stopped again and then took some more steps until he found himself right.......... ........... outside.............. ................... the door of the History of Magic classroom. Right then. They were either having a party or he was going to be disappointed for the duration of the lesson. And, whichever it was, he was required to make some sort of entrance? What in the name of merlin? That was so freaking weird. And it sounded a lot like something the loonies of the world did. His presence was enough of an entrance, thank you. What more did he need to do? Strut. The answer was strut. That's exactly what he was going to do. Struttin his way inside. And then he went and sat down next to some eager beaver (Simon) who was taking all the notes. Already. When, looking around, there was no professor here. Was he FEELING okay?! |
SPOILER!!: Oh hello! Simon glanced up from his notes when he saw more students enter here. He gave a friendly smile and a wave to the two Hufflepuff boys who had said hi (Cris and Adi). "Hey there! " he said. Being friendly was good. Then another Slytherin sat next to him. Was this the Whitty that Cutty had been speaking about? Simon pursed his lips. He thought that Cutty had pointed him out to him one time. "Hey! Excited for the class? I'm Simon." Introductions were good. Yay! |
Nigel use to enjoy History of Magic. It was a good class for naps and weird/awesome professors. Like the shoe guy and Vinteren. If that is how it said. He even remember one class when he was little, like that trip to Atlantis or wherever. Getting nostalgic in your seventh year sucked. NO............NOOO Not this song. It was horrible. The same chorus over and over and over and OVER AGAIN. "Make an Entrance" Did he have too. He was tall and had amazing hair. Wasn't that enough? He was not going to take his shirt off or anything. This was not the common room....So he walked in and took a seat behind Maddie. There, Entrance Made. |
The song was talking about being HAPPY, but Caleb was anything BUT happy. It was History of Magic. How on Earth could he possibly get excited about this class?? Still, it was KIND of hard not to smile as he walked in and grabbed a seat near the front. He wanted to see what this new professor lady had in store for them up close and personal. Plus, if she was easy on the eyes, that was a plus, yeah? hehe. |
Jasmine neared the History of Magic classroom and heard music coming from that direction. She was familiar with the song and that was one catchy tune. The music got louder as she reached the door. There was a sign on the door saying "Make an Entrance". Normally, Jasmine did not need much encouragement to perform.......but here in her new class with new students in her new school........the enthusiasm was lacking. Not wanting to be the one party pooper in the class, Jasmine entered the room bopping and snapping her fingers to the music. She threw in a little spin as she reached an empty desk and sat down. Looking around, Jasmine did not see any sign of the Professor. She did see some familiar faces and waved at Cris, Adi and Lux. Putting her belongings down, Jasmine sat back and enjoyed the music. |
Kyroh was almost scared that he would be late to History of Magic, and the music coming from the classroom didn't help matters. Running down the hall the freckled boy slowed down enough to read the sign. With the song playing in the background it kind of made him want to dance in (even if he didn't really recognize it) but that was what everyone would do! Instead Kyroh threw his back into the classroom and took a few steps back. Then running forward he performed what he had been practicing for a while now, a near PERFECT front flip. Near perfect cause he sorta fell at the end. Sorta. On his butt. Maybe. ENTRANCE! Happily grabbing his bag nearby Kyroh made his way to the front and took a seat beside a Slytherin guy with sort of long crazy hair. Looking around the classroom Kyroh gave Maddie a wave. |
History of Magic time, and she was actually kind of early, which was nice for a change. As she was walking along the corridor she noticed a song that was popular playing. This was the first time that she had heard music here, and thought maybe wizards didn't do the whole music thing. As she walked into the classroom she was singing and moving her body in tune of the music. It was then that she noticed the sign... heh, guess you didn't have to tell AJ to make an entrance. Where was the professor anyways? AJ noticed a few familiar faces. "Hey Adi, Chris and Maddie." She took a seat towards the middle. |
History of Magic. Cinna really didn't understand why most people didn't like this subject of study. It wasn't the worst or the hardest. Maybe to some people. As she made her way down the first floor corridor she heard music. Yes, music? She totally knew that song too. It wasn't until she got closer to the classroom that she realized that was where the music was coming from. Once she got to the classroom door she noticed a sign. Make an entrance She blinked for a moment and thought about what she was going to do for this entrance. Guessing with the song she figured that most of everyone probably came in singing and/or dancing. She took a few steps back from the door. With a little run off she flipped, twirled and cartwheeled her way in to the classroom. Landing perfectly on the floor. She noticed no professor. What was the point of all of that if the professor wasn't even there. Maybe she was hiding somewhere adults could do that apparently. So she when on to find a seat. On her way to sit down she seen Grayson she waved at him and said "Hey Grayson." Then she spotted Lux and Kace she smiled and waved at them and went over to sit with them "Hey, guys." She said as she sit down. |
Agatha could hear the song as she walked through the first floor corridor and was surprised to see that the music was coming from INSIDE the History of Magic classroom. Hm. Probably one of her classmates was going mental and decided to wreak havoc. The poor professor, would have to deal with that on the first day already. Agatha would hate to be a teacher. She stopped in front of the door and read the MASSIVE sign. Make an entrance. Right, the kid who had the music going on definitely put that up as well. Hadn't the professor noticed it yet? The Slytherin entered the room and looked around to see what the look on the professor's face was, but there was no professor around. No wonder all this craziness was going on. Though everybody was sitting down. Huh. Odd. Agatha quickly scanned the room and saw Nigel. No, thanks, she wasn't sitting next to him again. Strange Ravenclaw. The girl then went to take a seat near a Slytherin kid she still didn't know (Nathan). "Hello. I'm Agatha." She said shortly and stared at him, waiting for an introduction. |
Zander's eyes grew louder as he approached the classroom. Oh no. Was that.... MUSIC? Coming from inside the classroom? What? But the weirdness didn't stop there. Because uh.... Make an entrance!? What was that supposed to mean... Well first off Zander certainly did NOT want to make an entrance. He just wanted to quickly find a seat and go unnoticed, but this whole set up was making that really difficult.... So yeah, how exactly are they making an entrance? Just then, Zander was able to catch a girl (Cinnamon) WHO FREAKING CARTWHEELED into the room!? Uh... There's no way he'd be able to make much of an entrance after that one. So instead of going all out like that girl did... He opted for a more, do-able approach. He snapped his fingers to the beat as he walked through. There. What. An. Entrance. |
Bay reached the door for his history of magic lesson and he could totally hear music and on the door read a sign that said "make an entrance" hmmm what was he supposed to do.. but taking a cue from the music he opened the door and started to shimmy into the class wiggling his arms and legs and pretty much his whole body.. his eyes were closed of course and he managed to open them when he had his hands over his arms… and he was shocked to see a bunch of people already in the room.. hanging his head he spotted Lux and the gang… "hey" he said embarrassedly. |
Hazel hummed along to the music as she walked towards the History of Magic classroom. She saw the sign on the door. Make an entrance. Not really her thing to do, but who cares? Maybe it would give her extra credit. She opened the door and began dancing her way down to an empty seat. Yes, that would be good enough for now. Just to make it a little better, she began to sing the song as well. Loudly. She giggled and hoped nobody was listening. But what was wrong with singing and dancing in class? She giggled some more. She looked around for any of her friends. She wondered what crazy entrances they could do. |
Penelope followed the sound of the music to the history of magic classroom. The music was kind of annoying Penelope because she had heard the song way too many times. She hoped that the music would not be playing throughout the whole lesson. Noticing the sign on the door, Penelope decided not to make a big entrance, and quietly entered the room. |
History of Magic? Ew. Ethan made a face as he saw the notice on their notice board. History is boring, and the young Slytherin remembered what it is like back in his old school. Maybe it’ll be different in Hogwarts? Scratching his head, he got his stuff inside his satchel and grabbed his skateboard. Skating towards the classroom seemed to be a good idea because one: he wasn’t too interested in this subject, and maybe skateboarding might help him cheer up, and two: still too much snow outside, therefore he can’t use his toy during his free time. Skate. Skate. Skate. Halfway through, Ethan slowed down as he tilted his head upon hearing beats. History of Magic…have, music? This made the third year grin like an idiot. Heeeey. Maybe it’s not so bad after all. Bopping his head with the beat, he collected his skateboard and jammed it inside his satchel and wiggle!danced his way towards the door that said…Make an Entrance. Heh. Hehehehehe! And ohh…OOOH. He knows this song! Fixing his clothes and brushing his hair…he then opened the door and busted some serious groove. “Because I’m happy! Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!” he sang, clapped, and danced as he made his way towards Simon. Hey, hi, buddy! Thanks for the notice about this class, yeah? Now who’s next? “Because I’m happy! Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth!” he continued his dance!clap by wiggling towards Cris. Maaaaaaan this is fun! “Because I’m happy! Clap along if you know what happiness is to you!” he moved towards where Adi and Lux were and sang, clapped and dance for them before moving to…hmm. “Because I’m happy! Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do!” he said pointing at Coop, Kyroh, Grayson, Nigel, Agatha, Jasmine, AJ, and Zander. MERLIN. Ethan gave them all a salute and a quick wave, before settling down beside Simon. Hehehehe. Now THAT is how you make an entrance. Mhm. Definitely now in a better mood, the Slytherin prepped his things on his armchair while his head was still bopping to the music. Please don’t let the music stop? |
Professor Glendower had been waiting just outside the doorway - out of the way of any entering students and completely disillusioned. Not only did she want to see each and every one of her students' unique entrances, but she wanted to make her own entrance too, for all of her eager little learners! And what creative entrances they all had! Whether they were low-key, simply walking in, or more elaborate, each one was tailored to that person and she loved them all. She could hardly keep from clapping at the cartwheels and flips, though.. wow! But she had to keep quiet for now. Once it was about time for class to start and the song was nearing an end, Nessa took off the disillusionment spell and tap danced her way into the room, turning a few times, and stopping at the center of the room just as the music did, with a flourishy wave of her arms. "WELCOME To History of Maaagic!" she beamed. "I'm so happy to have you all here today! And wonderful entrances, everyone.. no matter how you chose to interpret the instructions. A memorable entrance engages your audience, but no matter what you do, it's important that you put yourself into it!" And that's what made each of them unique. She was so pleased with them all that she gave them her own round of applause. "I do have to say that I was rather impressed with a few extra-special ones though." They knew who they were. And with all that aside.. "Let's get started!" Nessa clasped her hands together and looked out with a hint of excitement at the sea of faces in front of her. "I feel that the best way to learn about history is to put yourself there - at the scene of the events, so to speak. Instead of simply memorizing names and dates, you can really feel what it was like for events to have happened, and that often aids in retaining it to memory." Not to mention make it more fun! "But before we get into all of that, let's narrow it down to just one specific event in history." She already had something in mind, but she wanted to see what they knew first. "Can anyone name a specific event in history where Muggles were witness to something magical? Or provide any details about it?" Something against the Secrecy Statute, no? And this would come in handy later. "You can use your books for this part." |
There was some sort of party happening in the History of Magic classroom, Mo noted as he approached and heard music and clapping and noiseeeee. Lots of noise. Merlin, they were all going to have their heads handed over to them on a platter at this rate. Not that he cared, 'cause that was a prefect's dilemma, right? But then he spotted the sign, and the noise made sense. Make an entrance. Interesting choice of words. It had the meaning colloquially of 'make people notice when you enter the room', but the words at their most literal simply said he should enter the classroom. Create his entering of the room. Make an entrance. Mo did so, slipping into a seat near the ickle Claws and carefully stowing his satchel under his seat. If it was a real party, there would be better snacks. |
SPOILER!!: Professor The Professor had been there the whole time?!?!?! Simon could have died of humiliation right in that moment when he realized that.... But he didn't because then he would have missed out on this class and this very peppy Professor. And class had started! A specific moment where Muggles witnessed something magical? He pursed his lips as he tried to think of an occasion where that had happened. Hmmmmm.... He knew this! It was on the tip of his tongue but he just couldn't get it out there. Frustrated, he slowed himself down and searched for an answer. Was it the Ilfracombe Incident or something? The one with the dragon? Ah, yes! The one with the dragon! 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. |
Bay loved watching everyone come in their own ways.. But the professor took the cake.. She was an amazing dancer "wow.. Awesome professor " he won't be doing much more dancing... Last time he did that he was stepping on the poor girls toes. Listening to the professor explain about learning by doing rather than reading bay couldn't agree more. That's how he learned best. Thinking real hard about the question he raised his hand " professor when the dementors where attacking the muggle population.. They still felt it and saw mist even though they couldn't physically see them it's a type of witness? " it was a scary topic and everyone brought up those events but he just totally felt uncomfortable talking about it. He lowered his hand down slowly. |
Agatha simply watched as the Once a grown woman materialised next to the door and tap danced her way to the middle of the room, Agatha's eyes widened. Whoooooooooooa!!! Now THAT is dancing! Not that silly wiggle thing all the others were doing. Wow. That had been pretty nice. The professor spoke a lot, but didn't say her name. The Slytherin blinked. "What's her name?" She whispered to the random person next to her. And the woman was speaking rather fast and was already asking something. Any detail is history? That still happened nowadays, didn't it? But it was a History of Magic lesson, so it made sense for the woman to ask them that. "When young kids used magic unintentionally?" ....That hadn't been an historical event, but it was the only thing Agatha thought of. It was still quite normal, actually. She has even witnessed a case or two. |
Lex hadn't made an entrance when everyone else did, mostly because she'd interpreted the sign way wrong and was prepared to make a hole in the wall (making an entrance, hello) but saw others doing less...extreme things so there she was sitting, the song long become background noise to her. It was so repetitive. Repetition was the fastest way to lose her interest. The song hardly registered anymore. What did register was the happy new Professor. Had they ever had a female HoM Professor? Not from her memory, this should be interesting. The Gryffindor sat forward in her seat, feigning interest while introductions and questions were being tossed out. So far, she liked the idea of living history as opposed to memorizing dates and people that were of no importance to her. As for whether she could think up an incident, nope. Did she want to go searching through her textbook....not particularly so Lex sat there, waiting for them to move on to a question she might have had a greater chance of knowing or the activity; the girl had always been a more hands on learner. |
Zander sat down in his chair and watched the next few students trickle in with their "entrances" and it was hilarious. Especially Ethan, who made a point to give everyone a little shout out. Zander clapped with the boy for a few beats as he watched him dance all over the place. Ah, what a guy. AND WOAH, where did SHE come from?! Either way, at least the Professor made an effort to make an entrance too? And what exactly did all the music and the entrance have to do with the lesson? Because now Zander's curious. As for the question... Zander had to think a little bit. He nodded as Simon gave a very intelligent answer. Woah, he must've done his research for that one. And then bingo, Zander thought of something! "At the 422nd Quidditch World Cup, wasn't a muggle family taken by the death eaters?" he asked. "I'm pretty sure the death eaters used magic against them and levitated them and cruel stuff like that," he added. Ugh. Using the term muggle still felt kinda weird to him. |
This class was amazing already, and it hadn't even started yet. Grooving in her chair, Lux clapped her hands along as more people arrived. Cinnamon, Jasmine, Bay, and Ethan all made amazing entrances and got enthusiastic greetings from her. So many dancers at Hogwarts, and Bay was totally adorable. In the middle of her groove, Lux was sad when the music stopped. BOOO! But it was okay, because the Professor had arrived. AND LUX LIKED HER A LOT ALREADY!!! Oooh, the idea of placing oneself in a moment of history was really interesting. Not being able to think of anything to answer the first question, Lux remained silent and instead got out her notebook so that she could write things down. |
Text Cut: Before class started/entrance Then there was sudden TAP dancing into the room and .................. jazz hands Jeremiah sat in his chosen seat with wide eyes at this professor as she spoke. He found himself squinting slightly at her round of applause at the entrances. Did his running count as a good one, even though he didn't know they were suppose to make an entrance? Wait, WHAT!? no date memorizing?! no intellectual fact note cards to study!? He didn't want to GO places he wanted to READ about them. they we're history for a reason and he'd rather have no part in History but rather the future. This was a nightmare and this lady had point FIVE seconds to turn this class around or else he'd... he'd, he'd cry! Also, did she ask a question? he didn't catch that. oops. |
Did the professor just…tap danced??? Ethan loves to dance…and if this lady knew how to, then she’s definitely going to be in his list of Cool Profs. Well, he still needs to see how their first class is gonna go, but yeah. HoM professor is half-way there. Wait, what’s her name? The Slytherin got his notebook out and scanned the list of professors he jotted down previously from their Noticeboard. History of Magic: Professor Nessarose Glendower. Noted. The young boy looked up with a grin on his face as the professor started her welcome speech. So…wait, she was there all along? She saw him Hand up. “Professor? How about the sighting of the largest kelpie in the world? Um, the Loch Ness Monster?” Yeah, that’s the one. |
Acknowledges those who said hi While Cris waited for the lesson to start, he waved and said hello to those who greeted him. "Hi Simon, it's nice to meet you. I'm Cris," Cris introduced himself the young Slytherin who had been the other student in the class when he had first arrived. Then came Adi, Ethan, Jasmine and AJ and others whom he had never met before until now. Then it was the turn for the new History of Magic Professor to show up and introduce herself. Cris kind of liked the way she introduced the lesson proper and had his hand up right after the first question was posed. "Professor there was that incident where a Flying Ford Anglia was witnessed by 5 muggles flying over London. Inside the car was Harry Potter and his friend, Ron Weasley." |
SPOILER!!: Cutty's entrance. Just thought you'd like to see it. It's boring, though. It was started before Nessa's Post 1. He'd taken a seat at one of the larger type chairs and settled into it. Actually, it really felt quite nice. Nevermind that everyone could see him. Besides, he could also see them. His scowl soon faded into a calm, though not pleased expression as he sank into the seat. Professor Glendower had made her appearance and Cutty could see that he was not wrong about the subject seeming to attract more eccentric types. As she spoke about her aims for the class Cutty withdrew his quill and parchment. It was always a good idea to know what your Professors want out of you. And ideal bit of information really when trying to fly just below the radar. But not be invisible, exactly. Cutty raised his hand to offer an incident, "Muggles would've seen all those unfortunate things which were the responsibility of Voldemort and his followers, wouldn't they? Only they would've thought things like gatherings of dementors were storm clouds." They were one question in, but he already had questions so his hand immediately rose again. "Professor, do sightings of creatures or incidents always lead to memory modification charms where possible in Wizarding History? Even if muggles think they've seen something else? Something more mundane that belongs in their wehld?" |
Text Cut: Before lesson started entrance Not paying attention to whatever else was going on around her, Beverly took out several pieces of parchment, a quill and the text book. That was until she caught someone at the corner of her eye. HEY. It was Jeremiah--he didn't look too enthused. Tilting her head as he sat at the desk in front of hers, Beverly wondered who she'd have to punch. Did someone interrupt his reading? 'Cause he REALLY loved that. Or did someone steal his pizza? 'Cause that would be blasphemy and a butt whooping HAD to be in order. Shrugging to herself, she stretched her foot, just barely giving his chair a tap-kick. She made sure the professor had been looking away 'cause, hello, Little Angel Face here. Leaving that for a moment, she mulled over the question ignoring whatever else Professor Glendower said before it. She did mention they weren't getting into that just yet. After a moment, the Slytherin raised her hand. "I don't remember the exact date of when it happened the first time, but the Ministry had a hard time with muggle sightings of Yeti in Tibet. Muggles refer to them as Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman. It was horribly bad that the International Confederation of Wizards established a permanent International Task Force in the mountains." Meaning... She had yet another career path! |
Angel raised her hand. "Professor when that Peter fellow faked his own death he made sure that it was the seen by everyone, which if I had been an Auror at the time then I would have been suspicious about the fact that all they found after was a finger." Angel wondered how the Ministry had got the wrong guy and wonder if they had pardoned him after all what had happened, seriously though the Ministry must have been thick to just let it go at that. |
SPOILER!!: Professor Glendower Put yourself into history. Nice quote, Professor. Leah was already starting to like this new professor, from the way she made students make an entrance to the way she started the lesson. Raising up her hand, the second year said, "Professor, I don't know if this counts as an event, but Ariana Dumbledore was seen practicing magic when she was six years old by muggles." Poor her. Leah did not mention that Ariana was attacked by those muggle boys after that. |
Cinna watched as others made there entrance. She danced, clapped and sung along from her seat. Bay joined them and shortly after that the professor tap danced her way into the classroom. Awesome. She would have to talk later with her about dancing one day she was a fellow dance too. Ballet and ballroom. Now this approach to History of Magic no remembering names and dates was totally great. It was so hard to remember names of old people and dates of times long ago. Now a answer she raised her hand "This actually isn't a time of witnessing magic. But being told. When there is a new Prime Minster appointed the current Minster of magic meets with them and tells them a the magic world." Or at least that's what she thought she heard once. |
The Professor had been watching the whole time? You always had to expect the unexpected at Hogwarts. Jasmine had already learned that much. And.....the Professor was a dancer. Cool. When the first History of Magic question was asked, Jasmine raised her hand to respond. When Harry Potter was attacked by dementors in Little Whinging, his muggle cousin was involved. Actually he was attacked as well, so he was a witness to magical activity. |
The professor's entrance... Had she been there the whole time? First question, magical events witnessed by muggles. Many people had already answered, so Penelope decided not to say anything, taking time to think about it. She did not know much about the wizarding world and magical history, so she listened to what people were saying and got out her notebook and quills for taking notes. If she thought of anything to say, she would, but for now she remained quiet. |
Look!!! It was the professor who taught her how to use the hot air charm on Peeves. Hiiiii professor. AJ smiled at everybody that greeted her. The first year was afraid that this class was going to be boring simply because of the word history. This professor might just be able to change that. Err... AJ wasn't sure about the answer to this one, and she really didn't want to look through her textbook. Plus, it seemed like everybody else had already said everything so did she really need to hunt further? "How about when a bunch of wizards got together in their wizard attire and caused suspicion?" She totally just made that up, but that could be a thing. |
UGH. dumb people were singing a dumb song and clapping their hands like...dumb people. Seriously...coud he leave? Even the Professor's entrance had not impressed him as he merely rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair. Maybe this was because he wasn't in a good mood. With this sudden cold weather, the Gryffindor had a cold earlier and he had to sniff loudly now and then and breathe through his mouth. Yep, he didn't feel very good. Luckily , the first question came and everyone was silent again. Well, there was a case of muggles seeing Kevin use magic before he got to Hogwarts and it resulted in him being bullied by them ...was that an answer? Probably not . So instead he grabbed his book and flipped the pages. "Weren't the tents at the Quidditch World Cup located where muggles camped out as well? So they might have seen a kid flying on a broom or someone using magic at least a few times , right?" he asked. |
Lucy raised her wand and said:"Professor when Lord Voldemort killed James and Lily Potter and he was defeated by Harry Potter who was a child the entire wizarding community celebrated the event with fireworks and many feasts..At that time there was a danger that the wizards were discovered by the Muggles! |
Wait...whaa?! No! UGH! Those were the first four initial thoughts going through Sophie's mind. Why was this? Well, each time an answer to the question came to mind, some LOUD MOUTH blurted out Sophie's answer before Sophie could even raise her hand. So they weren't really loud mouths, but it made Sophie feel better to punish them, even if it was only in her thoughts. So, take that! "What about Petunia Dursley?" she asked, raising her hand. "She's the sister of Lily Potter, and I read where as a kid, she sometimes saw Lily doing magic, but she thought her sister was just strange for doing it." Petunia counted as a Muggle, right? |
Adi waved back to Lux. "Hey, Kace!'' he said to the fourth year who made his appearance next. "Hi, AJ.'' And not too long afterwards, Ethan arrived. Adi grinned as he watched the other boy do his thing. Leave it to Ethan to be funny. .................... And there was the new Professor. The Hufflepuff hoped she wasn't going to make the subject and more boring than it already sounded. He liked her at once though. She looked excited about teaching them. Yes, Adi could think of an event. "Dudley Dursley saw when Harry Potter cast the Patronus charms when the dementors were sent after him.'' |
People had some............ interesting entrances. There were cartwheels and singing and theeeeeeeeeeen............ .............. tapdancing. Grayson tilted his head to the left, his eyes on the woman who had to be their professor. She had to be. And it turns out that she had been there the WHOLE time. HA. Some people had made a right ol' fool of themselves, hadn't they? And what he was taking from this little exercise was that they had to be as bold as possible. Let people know that they were THERE. For historical purposes and whatnot. Cool. Noted. Er. This question was a little harder, especially when answers were already flying around like well-crafted paper aeroplanes. Thank MERLIN that they could use their books. Heaving out his large book, he let it drop to the table with a THUMP! and flipped it open. Overrrrrrrr and overrrrrrrrrr and overrrrrrrrrrrr................ right up until he reached a section about the Statue of Secrecy. Because if there was anything about Muggle sightings of magical things, it had to be THERE. And YES. There was something here was someone hadn't said, he was sure of it. "What about Carlotta Pinkstone?" he asked, his hand in the air, "There aren't any details in here about what she did but she was an activist who tried to list the Statue of Secrecy and tell Muggles about magic and whatnot. She basically just used magic in public, deliberately too, and was imprisoned for it quite a lot of times." Uh huh. |
Text Cut: Hi Beverly! He was grumbling about things when he suddenly felt someone KICK his chair and anger built up in him suddenly. Really way to be R U D E. Turning on point to whisper!tell off whoever it was kicking his chair he blinked. "really!? could you n...." oh.......... noticing who it was his anger quickly subsided seeing Beverly. "you...... stopit." he was still whispering but his lips turned into a grin before he winked at her and turned away back to the front of the room. |
But whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy stop now? THIS WAS THE BEST HISTORY CLASS EVER and Professor Party Pooper was already going down hill with boring history! Booooo.... booo..... Zahra wanted to hear more that HISTORICAL SONG. That was PROBABLY a wizard in a cool hat singing that jam. .....Zahra was probably the last to stop dancing, almost as if she persisted, the Professor would change her mind about having real class.... .... *running man* .... *.........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. |
He liked this professor already. Not memorizing things would be blissfull. Did this professor know she was being SUPER nice to her students by doing that? WAS that even allowed in their secret professors code? As far as her question went, Noel wasn't really planning on answering but then everyone started answering - and when Sophie said something about Lily Potter's sister. Noel chimed in: "What about the time Mr Potter turned his uncle's sister into a balloon?" He said, cackling in the end. It was funny. |
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. . |
Text Cut: emjay;11624492 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. :x3: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? |
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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 |
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. |
So History of Magic wasn't one of his favorite subjects. And when asked off the bat for an example of magical world creeping into the muggle world, his mind blanked. However a classmate had answered and the professor seemed to want to focus on the item in question. The Ilfacrombe Incident Okay, so that was something he was unfamiliar with, at least past what had already been brought up when it had been offered as an example. Benny opened up his textbook and searched for the appropriate point in history, finding it eventually and skimming through the details to find something he could add. But there wasn't much and before he could raise his hand to speak, his fellow students were beating him to it, including Benny. So the Gryffidor proceeded to simply write down what was being said in his notes for easy access later on. |
Kace was liking this professor. She was very thorough with what she wanted to get done. She even took pity on him when he repeated an answer but it was helpful for learning purposes. No doubt about that. Now onto the task at hand. She talked about an event that had a weird name. He looked through his book to get some details because he had no idea! But as he was scrolling, he noticed it seemed like an interesting event. He heard the other students answers and he raised his hand, "Professor the book says it happened in Devon, England." |
Taking notes on what other people were saying, Lux was being such a good student. History of Magic was a really interesting subject, and she was definitely excited to get to the practical. Practicals were always her favourite part of a lesson because they were hands on and didn't require a lot of note taking or answering of questions. What did she know about the Ilfracombe incident? DRAGONS OF COURSE!!! Other things had happened, but Lux wasn't interested in all of them because DRAGONS. Dragons were awesome, and they made her think of all those tales about knights saving princesses from danger. At one point those stories had grossed her out, but now she really enjoyed them. Being in a relationship could do that kind of thing to a girl. Raising her hand, she made her contribution. "These muggles were sunbathing and saw a dragon. That's the kind of vacation I would want to take." As long as she didn't get close enough to a dragon where it could burn her to a crisp, Lux was interested in seeing one in real life. |
The Professor asked for one fact related to the Ilfracombe Incident. Jasmine tried to reach deep into her memory to recall a detail. Once she thought of something, she raised her hand. "There was a Muggle expert named Blenheim Stalk and he wrote a book called "Muggles Who Notice". In that book he talked about the muggle Dodgy Dirk and told his story." That was about the only thing that Jasmine could come up with that had not already been mentioned. |
SPOILER!!: Professor What? He had actually gotten something correct? Simon smiled shyly as the Professor turned to the whole class and became very enthusiastic again. She was asking them to delve further into the historical situation that he had brought up. Set the scene. Cast characters. Merlin. It sounded as if they were trying to recreate the scene for a major motion film for a second. Nevertheless, Simon liked how she had phrased it. It made the event seem all the more interesting. Besides, he already found the event really interesting because he was intrigued by dragons. The whole Ifracombe incident had always stumbled Simon since he had heard of it. Why would a common green welsh dragon? A relatively quiet, harmless dragon attack a group of people? He could've sworn that he read somewhere that the green welsh dragon would've avoided contact with human beings. Had the dragon been provoked by hunters? He then thought about his classmates answers'. Was the dragon nuts? Had the dragon been hurt? Was it a publicity stunt? Was it right for the Toke family to have intervened? He supposed so, but performing memory charms on a large mass of people was described as being very difficult. The text had also said something about some dodgy guy- Dodgy Dirk that had remembered the incident and went on to inform other muggles about it. So other muggles must've known too... And besides didn't the Ministry monitor dragon populations? Migrations and whatnot? The whole incident was baffling. Simon became distracted by this thought and tried his best to refocus and listen to the answers that his classmates were suggesting. However, focusing back on the discussion proved to be a harder task. But, what happened to the dragon? Who knew? He remained silent and listened to his classmates. |
Caleb had never heard of this Ilfracombe Incident before, but it sounded sort of interesting. Better than some of the other stuff they'd learned in this class before. Dragons ALWAYS made things better, that was just a fact of life. But what else could he add to the discussion? Hmmm. Tap tap tap. Caleb tapped his chin as he thought before raising his hand. "Well, it was the 30's, right? Over a hundred years ago? So they were probably all wearing really old fashioned bathing suits when they were attacked," he explained. Yeah, that was a fact! It was true - fashion was CRAZYYYY back in the day and they wore like, dresses to swim and stuff, right? Maybe the dragon had been trying to burn off the clothes and help their fashion sense. |
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Annabeth had never read about it before. And it wouldn't be this time she would open her book. She was feeling lazy, though she could provide something to tell the teacher. She raised one hand. "I'm not sure about it, my great-grandma told me that her grandma was a toddler at the time and she witnessed what I will tell you now." Anna paused shortly to gain time to invent the rest of the story - while creating some suspense, "The year was 1932, she was a little older than two years of age. Her Mum had just tucked her up in bed for the night when a deafening sound was heard throughout the town. She got startled and began to cry. Through a open window, the little girl saw a big pair of wings, flapping hard to gain the sky. The citizens began to shout everywhere and then she saw a great ball of fire swallowing a house nearby. She cried even hard, but her mum didn't come to help her. She stood up and climbed on a bedside table to find out what was going on. She stood on tiptoes and looked through the window. It was the scariest thing she had ever saw! A big dragon was spitting out fire on women and men who tried to defend their houses and families. There was people running everywhere and nobody seemed to know what to do. She noticed a dozen of men carrying bucketfuls of water and when they saw the scary creature, they threw the buckets on the ground and began to run away. The dragon got off the ground, it was when she felt something warm touching her shoulders... It was her mum, who took her to the basement, where the rest of the family was hidden safely. The day after some strangers went there and cast spells on the whole family, but not on the little girl, who was pretending to be asleep. That's all." She grinned, proud of being a good storyteller. Would the teacher like it? |
Kyroh SPOILER!!: professor Would they be acting it out? That would be fun. Listening to what other people said, and looking at her book, Penelope put together an answer. She didn't really have anything new to add. "A common Welsh Green dragon attacked some muggles. The Toke wizarding family cast a lot of memory charms on all of the muggles." SPOILER!!: Maddie SPOILER!!: Kyroh This guy was another first year Ravenclaw. He seemed to really like dragons. His answer was different than Maddie's, but saying that Maddie's answer was wrong was completely uncalled for. Respect was the first rule in this class, and saying that someone's answer was wrong was not respecting that person. He would not get away with saying stuff like that without Penelope saying something to him. "You should not be telling the class that Maddie's answer is wrong. Respect what people say. Maddie is a smart Ravenclaw girl, and she is entitled to respect in this class. If you want to hug a dragon that is attacking people, you should rethink that. Use that Ravenclaw brain of yours. Any dragon attacking muggle sunbathers is nuts, even if it was beaten up as a baby. Being beaten up as a baby would make the dragon angry, and an angry dragon could go crazy. Dragons are really dangerous. Do you really want to hug a crazy, dangerous, angry dragon when it is attacking you? Do you really think it's okay to say that Maddie's answer is wrong? The answer to both should be no. Use your brain to figure out that you should respect what Maddie, and everyone else, says." That should show him not to think Maddie was wrong. It was so sad to see a Ravenclaw who seemed to lack common sense. Penelope expected rude remarks from Slytherins, but Ravenclaw? Really? Did he come from a family of Slytherins? Did he really lack the sense to know not to hug dangerous dragons? Penelope hoped that she had not sounded too rude or mean, and that she wouldn't get in any trouble for talking to the boy (Kyroh). Also, she was disappointed in this guy for being so rude to Maddie. How could he be so rude to his housemate? Maybe it was just because he loved dragons, but that was not an excuse for being rude to people. |
Devon, England. Dodgy Dirk. Green Dragon. 1932. Mass Obliviate Spell. Everyone mentioned all the facts from the book and Jeremiah was busy making Bullet points on his parchment about it all cos you know, Dates, names and spells we're all important and he really wanted to be sure he knew everything even if they were "creating the scene" so to speak. |
Zander listened to everyone give answers and he lifted an eyebrow in confusion. Uh. What. How did everyone know all these facts off the top of their heads. The Ilfacrombe incident? The only thing he knew was a dragon. But everyone had already said that much. "England!" he shouted. Yeah, that's all he could offer. That would help set a scene right?! |
SPOILER!!: Penelope Whoa! what was going on here? Were the firsties having a spat? First one shared an answer, and then another one, Kyroh...if he remembered his name correctly.....shared his own thoughts about said events and what the other girl had said. He was clearly a dragon sympathizer, which was understandable What was said was clearly a healthy exchange of ideas, in this case the first years way. Cris was used to that. He knew that most Professors encouraged a healthy exchange of ideas. But then, another first year, decided to step in and reprimand him for doing so. Cris couldn't help but hear what she said. Hey!, it wasn't like anyone else was talking. Cris felt really uncomfortable when he heard what she said to Kyroh. Sure it was nice of her to speak up for her friend, but Cris thought that to reprimand someone else in class AND in the presence of the Professor, was inappropriate. That should have been left to the Prefects to deal with, or the Professor, herself. Cris looked nervously at the Professor. Not good...not good at all. |
Dragons? They'd moved the conversation into dragon territory? Well why didn't anyone say so sooner?? The Gryffindor would have been more likely to pay attention as opposed to only faking it like she'd been doing for the longest while. Granted, she knew nothing about this...er...Ilfracombe Incident that everyone was going on about but after listening to her classmates she felt pretty clued in and almost sure there was nothing more to be said on the matter. It sounded simple. Some dragon showed up and a family took care of everything. The Professor had mentioned it being in the text, did that mean she wouldn't have to be taking notes on it? Plus Lottie took good notes too, there was a possibility that if this wasn't all in the text, she'd still be just fine yeah? Yeah, so the Gryffindor sat there absorbing everything like a sponge. She hoped the Professor wasn't expecting her to be more vocal. This was History of Magic class, the lesson in which it was better for the Prefect to be seen and not heard. A harsh fact but reality nonetheless and Lex had come to accept this. |
SPOILER!!: Maddie, Mo & Penelope If Maddie was upset by him calling her wrong, Kyroh didn't notice at all. Nope. He was too distracted by Mo and the talk of everyone knowing the memory charm. He was suppose to know how to erase everyones minds now?Did that mean they expected more attacks? More dragons that never got any hugs? He was deep in thought until all of a sudden a girl started to yell at him. ....What? "I never said Maddie wasn't smart." How could he say that? Maddie was his friend. And Maddie was observant and stuff, and Kyroh was pretty sure she was smarter than him. But the girl kept going and as she went on and on he found that his vision was becoming slightly blurred from the water that was starting to form. "I NEVER said HUG it when it was ATTACKING." He meant hug it before! When it was a baby dragon. People had to care for it before. "Do YOU think it's okay to say MY answer is wrong." Because it WASN'T! OKAY!? She was saying stuff. And it wasn't nice and he didn't like it at all. It made him feel stupid. "And you know nothing about Dragons because a Common Welsh would not just go and attack people for no reason! Like Maddie said I just mean that they don't just go nutso." That's ALL he had meant okay? But nope. She kept going and telling him to use his brain and stuff, which was WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO! He was TRYING to answer questions and use his brain and be smart. He was trying to be a good Ravenclaw. He hadn't meant to say anything bad about Maddie's answer."I didn't even WANT to be in stupid Ravenclaw ANYWAYS so leave me alone!" The boy yelled slamming his arms on his desk and burying his face. |
Apologies to Kyroh SPOILER!!: earlier post SPOILER!!: Kyroh Had she really just said that? Penelope couldn't believe that she had just done that. Kyroh probably wasn't trying to say anything bad about what Maddie had said. He was probably just worried about the dragon. She had really said that to him? In front of the class? And the professor? What had she done??? Now Kyroh was yelling at her. She really hadn't meant to make him feel bad, or start a big fight. "Sorry about that. I didn't really mean most of the stuff I said. I... I should have thought more about it before I said any of that," Penelope said to Kyroh before turning away from him. It was so embarrassing that she had spoken to him like that in class. In class. In front of everyone. And the professor. She shouldn't have said anything. Then she could just be silently taking notes. No, she couldn't just do that after what she had said. Penelope wanted to curl up in a ball and cry. She really hadn't meant to say all of that to Kyroh. How could she have said all of that? Holding back tears, Penelope ran out of the room. She had to get away from this place. She felt really, really bad about everything she had just done. The whole thing never should have happened. |
Ethan grinned proudly at Simon and gave his friend a nudge. He got the answer right, and that they will be discussing dragons. Dragons are fun, and the topic is sloooooooowly becoming interesting to the boy since his cousin will never stop talking about it. Anyway…what does he know about the Incident? Ethan opened his book and looked at the information. Everything on the book was already mentioned…so…maybe he’ll just keep quiet and listen to the others. But then, something happened. The Slytherin narrowed his eyes at the Ravenclaw girl he saved from Transfiguration and refrained himself from joining the debate that was going on. If only Mordred was in that class, he would have said nasty things to that kid. Dragons need tender loving care too! Just like the Flesh-Eating Plants back in Greenhouse 8! And how dare she talk to Kyroh that way? The third year had a short encounter with the kid while they were building stuff for the Groundskeeper, and he could tell that the kid’s actually smart. It didn’t help too that fellow housemates would actually do that…kind of discussion. Houses are weird. Really weird. And…wait what? Kyroh didn’t like to be in Ravenclaw? Blink. The Slytherin watched as the Ravenclaw girl walked out of class. Good move, really. Ethan’s attention then shifted to Kyroh. Great, now they have a very upset boy in class, when this lecture is supposed to be a Happy one. |
Angel looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "I don't know Professor, I'm not sure, maybe, I just read up it was a Peter?" Angel wondered if that Peter was something special to the Professor, but well she would have to wait and see. Angel listened to the Professor and thought about the next question and was about to reply when someone was running out of the classroom in tears this was no good. "Professor want me to go and see if she's okay?" Angel didn't want to get into trouble so she asked but well she didn't like seeing anyone upset like that. Angel then thought about the answer, she raised her hand "A guy called Dirk managed to avoid the mass memory charm and so told everyone that he had seen a great big lizard." Angel decided to stop there because she didn't want to get into trouble for giving too much information. |
Stunned, Lux watched in silence as a debate started between a few Ravenclaw First Years. Personally she was in agreement with the boy; everyone needs hugs and love and baby dragons were no exception. One of the girls was being rude to him though, and making him upset. Awww, that was sad. Lux wanted to give him a hug and Chocolate Frog to make him feel better. Wait, what? He didn't want to be in Ravenclaw? O_O Watching, she saw the rude girl run out of the classroom. It was not nice how a lesson that was supposed to be fun and full of happy people had turned into something so sad. Hopefully one of the Prefects or Staff members would be able to cheer her up, but Lux still thought that the boy had been right in thinking the dragon would have felt better if he had gotten hugs as a baby. |
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...hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! Zahra cracked up, BUT KEPT QUIET 'CAUSE SHE WAS DOING GOOD for once. It was so hard to not point out that she was SO RIGHT and Kyroh was a diaper-wearing BABY. HAHAHAHAHA If only he'd stop crying long enough so she could catch his eye. ..hahaha Boy Ravenclaws were all drama. One even LEFT. Babies. haha. Zahra saw this as opportunity to grab some extra points, so she raised her hand again. "The dragon, the one that we're talking about actually, I bet it ROAAAAAAAAAAAARED and blew fire and junk. For your mental picture. And did belly rolls and set the ocean on fire and the sand turned to ROCK, pretty rock." YEP. Zahra beamed. This was by far the best class behind CoMC. History couldn't really compete with stuffing a garden gnome down your shirt. |
...WHAT? Maddie was trying not to pout in peace, y'know? Except then that Penelope girl was coming to her defense which both puzzled and amused the small brunette. It was GOOD to know that her dorm mate had her back for reasons BUT she definitely hadn't anticipated such a response and NOW Kyroh AND Penelope were upset and saying angry things and THIS first year was wildly confused. Feelings were stupid, y'know? And Maddie didn't DO feelings OR comfort so she stayed quiet the entire time, her eyes WIDE and darting back and forth between the two. When Kyroh announced he didn't even WANT to be a Ravenclaw and then Penelope left, the twelve year old let out a sigh and looked around for HELP. Someone help? Someone hug Kyroh and someone tell HER what SHE was supposed to do because she didn't know. Professor? Maybe some of that happy music would help right about now. |
If nothing else proved that Ravenclaw loved drama. This should certainly. Back and forth trading words between first years and then one of them runs out of the room. They were first years. Them not wanting to be in a, insert house here, was normal. Still this was totally random and all it did was ask the question What in Merlin's Earlobe just happened? It would have been funny if it was Hufflepuffs. For no reason really. But it was his house. So... He just sighed. Professor do something please. |
Whooooooooa. All that Ravenclaws-having-a-fit thing made Agatha completely forget about looking for an older student to serve as her shield. She even momentarily forgot about that, possibly, there was a dragon somewhere there. The Slytherin looked back and forth as the first years yelled and went all Ravenclaw on each other. Because that was the meaning of crazy in Agatha's opinion. Merlin, what a bunch of weirdos. No wonder Nigel acted the way he did in Arithmancy. Ravenclaw was the house of the nustcases apparently. Wow. |
SPOILER!!: I know it's a lot, but you should probably read it all ;) Professor Glendower turned to the board and filled in a few spaces and gaps, making sure they had all the information they needed before they were to begin. "As you can see, we have our characters of the story, our scenes, and our basic plot. It's now time to begin and re-enact history!" She waved her wand at the back of the room, taking off the disillusionment charm on the boxes of costumes. "First, I need you all to decide which character you'd like to portray. Then, get into costume. They are charmed to fit right over your school uniform." There was a dragon costume, olde tyme beach outfits, and wizarding robes of the past. "Once you've done that, we are going to do some warm-up exercises. Watch very closely." Nessa took a step into the center of the room, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. "Close your eyes, start breathing deeply, focusing on relaxing each part of your body from the top of your head down to the tips of your toes." She took another deep breath. "While you are doing that, think about the character you have chosen to portray. What is his or her motivation? Use that to decide your interpretation.. be your character!" Quote:
OOC - For this part of the activity, please have your character choose a character from this moment in history to portray and put on the costume over his/her uniform. It's charmed to fit and look appropriate once on. If the main characters are gone or your character has some stage fright, feel free to choose a Muggle character, they are numerous. Then have your character do the breathing activity. You need at least two posts for this part. Nessa and I will be around to keep track of characters. |
Post 1 There....was actually a lot going on in the class right now, lots of discussions and a couple claws getting picked on (this was starting to look like a job for Kyroh, poor kid). All in all it made it hard to focus on just the story and soon Lex was wondering about the people on fire and everything else that was being said around her. Was it really that epic? You know, dragon coming down from some high mountain and beach goers realizing they're screwed? Then they persecuted wizards. Pffft. They were like the saviours when things like this went bad, they should consider that the next time they thought about torches though no one had done that in ages. Her attention peaked further and further at the idea of re-enacting the scene. She could do that, it was lively enough to keep her awake. The Gryffindor's hand shot up. "Can I be the Dodgy guy with the talk of lizards?" If she was going to play the role, she might as well enjoy it, yeah? Couldn't get more fun than yelling about giant lizards and dirt. The man sounded positively off his rockers and those were the kinds of people that amused Lex enough to keep her interest so..... Was that a yes? Where was the costume for him? |
Professor? Zander hid his head in embarrassment. He didn't mean to shout... It just happened. That's the last time he'd speak out loud in this class! WAIT O______O Were they actually going to roleplay the event? That defeats the whole purpose of not speaking out loud. Duh. He couldn't possibly take a role. Besides, everyone would be watching him. And he'd have to act in front of the whole class. What if he screwed up? Everyone would see? In other classes, Zander could manage slipping by and sitting in the very back where no one could see the mess he made. Zander looked around and blinked a few times. Raising his hand this time, he looked towards his professor. "Uh, Professor... Do we... Do we have to... you know... be a character?" Couldn't he just be a scribe and take notes or something? Of course there were the muggle roles, if not taking a part wasn't an option. But, it was worth a shot? |
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