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.

: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.

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.

*looks at stuff in RPG Hogwarts, a History*/ mention of Dima
 

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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Originally Posted by lazykitty (Post 11624980) 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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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz (Post 11624701) *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.

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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Originally Posted by Emms (Post 11624506) 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?

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?"

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.