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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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