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Hiiiiiiii, everyone! Adi was hereeeee! Hehe. It wasn't like the boy was announcing himself to the class but his signature grin was in place as he bounded into the room. Knowing that he would meet the also very cheerful Moxley, he was doubly looking forward to this class. "HiHiHi, Professor! How are youuu?" .................... So many peoples were there already! Lux, Zhenya, Toby and a few of his other friends got grins or waves of acknowledgment as Adi made his way to Benny. Hiiii, Benny. Adi flopped onto the seat at the Lion's desk. "What's up, Thor?" |
With his back to the door, Benny hadn't registered the moment Adi had entered the muggle studies classroom. Nor the grin on his face until he looked up from setting out some parchment and quill for notes on the desk in front of him. And when he felt a presence come up behind him before joining him. Oh and that was a referal to the Ancient Runes lesson and all that transpired there. "Nothing much," he answered, "What about you, Loki?" It was only appropriate to return the favor. |
Hugh was as ready as Hugh's could be, which was not very much. He was very distracted this morning (like most mornings) when he fumbled into Moxley's class. WHADDA DO, PROFESSOR MOXLEY. He saluted her awkwardly and found his seat. Not before tripping into it. Be cool. Be cool, Hugh. |
Emmylou made her way to the Muggle Studies classroom. She was really excited to find out what they would be learning in class today. It wasn't everyday that you get to do something really awesome in class. Some days classes were boring. Before walking Emmylou made sure that she had everything that she needed for today's lesson. |
This class was going to be a waste of his time. Xavi knew it, but he had to come. He reasoned that it wouldn't be so bad to sit and doodle for hours and end with perfect marks. He found a seat toward the front, but on the far side. That didn't label him as a slacker, and also kept him out of the teacher's line of sight, lowering his chances of being caught off-guard by a question he wasn't paying attention to. What even was the point of this class? Half of the school or more had at least one muggle parent, and for those who didn't couldn't they just ask their friends if they had questions? It wasn't like they didn't live in a world surrounded by muggles. They all probably knew what everything was. The muggle world was pretty simple. At least, in the mind of the first year it was. |
SPOILER!!: HEYs, HIs, and HELLOs Once the last student was seated, Moxley gave the door a nudge with her foot and locked it. Anyone arriving after this point would need to knock and deal with Moxley's inquiries and she would be asking lots of questions, oh yes. As for the rest of them, it was time to get things started! WHO WAS EXCITED? Taking center stage, Moxley glanced around the room and smiled radiantly. "Hello everyone! I'm happy to see smiles on so many faces this morning and I trust you've all come ready to learn but just in case, let's strap on our listening ears!" The brunette made a show of pretending to strap on her own, going as far as to do some pretend adjusting, and then giving a little chuckle. "Now then, I'd like to start us off with a question." Moving to stand behind her desk, the Muggle Studies professor reached down to grab something and after a moment, produced a picture which she showed to the group. "Can anyone tell me who this gentleman is and anything else you might know about him?" |
Jackson just sat at the middle row, waiting for the class to be started while he took his notebook and made a doodle to keep him busy. So far he enjoyed muggle studies class, that's why he wanted Moxley to start soon. As the Professor started, he closed his notebook and paid attention to her. The Korean guy did notice that she showed them a photograph of an old person. Okay, who was that man? He didn't know very well. "Well uh... I bet he's a very genius muggle that invented something." He raised his hand and answered. |
Emmylou beamed at the professor. Ooooh! Yes! Class was starting. So exciting! The sixth year didn't know why she was so happy for Muggle Studies but she really was. Emmylou listened very closely as the Professor spoke. She nodded to let her know that she was listening. Then there was a picture! Pictures were always nice. So they have to figure out who he way. That was a really old picture but Emmylou knew who it was. |
Tia couldn't help but feel less stressed when she entered the muggle studies classroom and it had nothing to do with the fact that she was half-blood and knew loads about muggles already. It had something to do with whenever she entered the classroom, Professor Moxley always had a positive vibe about her. A contagious smile. Studiously taking out parchment and a pencil, the fifth year seated near the back of the room (cause all the seats up close were taken by the time she had arrived!), which just meant she had to work extra hard at paying attention. And then the professor was starting; with an old photograph. Listening ears. For some reason if Moxley hadn't said that, all the mental images of old inventors would have blurred in Tia's mind but at the mention of ears, Tia's hand shot up. "That's Alexander Graham Bell, Professor." Tia said knowingly. "Invented the telephone." Yes, she had one of those at her house, so naturally being the inquisitive Ravenclaw she was, she wanted to know who invented each piece of muggle technology in her home. |
As more students filed into the classroom, Natalia merely squinted at them through her weary eyelids. She occasionally returned waves at a couple of them who greeted her, Lux who popped down in the desk next to Nat, a Ravenclaw girl (Eden), and Puck. Cool, now Nat could relax her eyes a little bit, releasing all the tension from her body... Before Natalia could feel satisfied from her little nap, she heard the door being locked and the professor's voice sounding across the classroom. Great, it looked like class was starting despite not getting enough SLEEP. Not even for one more minute? Fine. Slightly grumpy, Natalia took her legs off the desk and faced the front to where the professor was standing. While attempting to sit up straight, the fourth year managed to fall back with her shoulder blades hitting the top edge of the chair. Uncomfortable. Well, she tried. She was going to have to manage surviving the rest of this class in such a sullen mood. Smile, Nat, SMILE. *BEAM* Staring at the monochromatic picture on the board, Natalia recognized man the after a couple of seconds. It was Alexander Graham Bell, wasn't it? The inventor of the telephone. Yes, a great innovator whom Natalia had studied a lot about in muggle primary school. But instead of raising her hands to answer the question, the fourth year remained silent and waited for other students to respond. First of all, she really didn't have the energy to participate. And besides, it would be essentially CHEATING to answer such a obvious question for a muggleborn. |
Oh. Wait. Food. Man. He should've brought her cheesecake, huh? How come he always forgot the important stuff!? Obviously he wasn't cut out for this brown-nosing life style. How did Sophie Brown do it so effortlessly? It wasn't fair. This was not a natural talent of his. Unfortunately. And though his Muggle Studies Professor was obviously kidding around Next time he'd bring her TWO ENTIRE cheesecakes. Maybe. If he remembered. Which was a lot harder than it sounded. He had been attending Charms class for an entire year and he STILL forgot to bring apples for Professor Q. Not that it'd probably change anything. But you know, STILL. But anyways, trying to forget the humiliation and trying to will away the slight pink in his cheeks... Zander turned just in time to notice Nat walking into the room. Oh Merlin. Please don't sit here. Please don't sit here. Please don't-- Awh, man. It's like she wanted his life to be painful. She was good at it too. Sigh. Nevertheless, he gave her a small smile, hoping that she'd take things down a notch and play nice. All this sass was kind of hard to deal with in class, y'know? And thank MERLIN Moxley was starting things up and he wouldn't have to worry about small talk. Also, Nat looked sort of dead. Did she know? Okay, an O or not, Zander had NO idea who that beard guy was. How DID people know exactly? It always amazed him how smart some of these Hogwartians were. Like they all decided to swallow encyclopedias for breakfast or something. Man, if only he had thought of that before he downed an entire plate full of pancakes. By the way, pancakes did not prepare you for naming some random beard guy. Zander would know. He had four of them this morning. If only Hogwarts served encyclopedia flavor. But hearing not one, but TWO whole people name the guy as Alexander-von-telephone, Zander knew EXACTLY who that was. Actually, not really but if he was the inventor of the telephone he could figure out the rest. 'Cause Zander didn't really know anything about the creator-beard-man, but he did know a thing about the telephone. HA. So adding to what Tia had just said, "And the telephone is pretty important because before that was the telegraph which could only really send messages with pulses... and stuff... So yeah, he basically expanded on that stuff and made it possible to transmit sounds. So uh, he must be practical. And smart." Information was solid, but boy did he need to work on this presentation stuff. |
Did she know who that guy was? Nope. Dot did NOT know who that was. She squinted at the picture of the old bearded guy, first with one eye and then with another. Anything? No. Nope. No clue. "I'm pretty sure that's Santa, Professor. Or someone's grandpa. I like his beard, though. It's very well maintained." Which was impressive, considering that he was probably Muggle who was alive before the electric clippers. |
Eden waved at Clara as she walked in, and figured she didn't want to sit by her because she was sitting by Grayson. She didn't blame Clara...she would catch up with her after class. She BEAMED at Professor Moxley when she complimented her hair. It was nice when professors APPRECIATED nice things, like blue hair. "Thaaaaank you, Professor." She grinned and ran her fingers through it...the loose ends, at least. She tilted her head and squinted at the picture...who WAS that..."Um..I'm pretty sure that's George Washington." American historical bloke, right? He had a white beard and stuff. It made sense. It was totally George Washington. Actually, Eden had no clue, and it was the only old bearded guy she could think of right now. Plus, he looked American. Totally. |
Yes, it's either he's in a good mood, or he consumed too much sugary food before class. The Slytherin was about to nudge his seatmate and discuss guy stuff with Grayson, but the door was closed shut, signalling them that class has begun. Ethan, without thinking, mimicked Professor Moxley with the 'listening' bit and watched her get a picture of...a guy. "Mr. Beardy McGenius?" Ethan bit his lip as he lowered his hand. Yup. Too much sugar indeed. "I mean, he looks like a genius..." the Slytherin shrugged as he sat back on his chair and allowed the other smartypants in the room talk. |
Haaaaaaaai, everyone!! Lux sent all the new arrivals waves and smiles. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood for class - Damien especially so. The kiss he gave Rorie was adorable, but of course not approved of by the Professor. Kissing was amazing, just not in class. She had never kissed her boyfriend during a lesson. As things got started, Lux giggled at Moxley putting on her listening ears. This woman was silly, and it made Muggle Studies even more fun! Taking a careful look at the picture, she raised her hand. She knew a little about muggle inventors, so this question was easy. "That's Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the telephone!" Living around muggles and having parents with muggle jobs, she definitely knew about and had used phones before. |
"Great! I'm doing juuuuust fine too, Professor!" Adi had no idea why he was extra happy today. Maybe it was something in the air. Hehe. .................... Adi smirked. He liked being referred to as the God of Mischief! Thank youuuu, Professor Head House, for giving him that role! It was so fitting. Plus Thor an Loki were brothers, though adopted (he was referring to the movies and comics because most of his knowledge was from there) soooo Benny being Thor and hm being Loki was even better. "The sky," he remarked as he set about getting his stationery out for the lesson. Annnnnd start of the lesson! Adi eyed the bearded, ancient looking man before raising his hand. "I don't know his name but maybe he invented the earphones.'' Moxley had said something about 'listening'. Hehe. How long ago were the earphones invented anyway? Were they THAT old to be invented by that man? |
Moxley didn't fool Sophie Brown for a second - she KNEW the woman adored the praise, and the prefect beamed in reply. It wasn't even nice of her to say, she was... "Just bein' honest." Just being honest, professor. Sophie kept an eye out for someone to sit by her - Tobes entered and took his usual place by the door, which wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but unfortunately there were NO friends who came to sit by her. Way lame. Though... Zander was over there looking awfully uncomfortable with the girl who had sat by him, so maybe Soph would rescue him later. Yes. Good plan. For now, Sophie squinted at the picture of the man on the board. She didn't know him, no, but she recognized the name when Emmylou and Tia both identified it as the same person. Yes, okay, she knew who that was, then, but even more interesting than the guy himself was everyone else's interpretation of who it was. Dot and Ethan's guesses got giggles out of her, which she stifled behind her hand. Creative, they were, and unashamed to look silly. She admired them for that. |
Listening ears... AJ could do that. In fact she made sure to adjust them all dramatically just like the professor. Now that they were on all straight she beamed and looked at the picture of the man they were supposed to guess. Hmm... no name was coming to mind. She bet it was something old like William because of his old beard and stuff. It looked like other people knew his name so need to bother with that one. What did the old dude do? That was a good question too. Since they had to make a thing about their ears she assumed it had something to do with that. Adi had a good guess, but in the end she had to agree with some of the others. "I agree with him being the telephone inventor dude." Great things came from the telephone so mad props to you! |
Great day for Muggle Studies indeeeeeeeeeed. Toby flashed another grin at the professor when she commented on HIS cheeriness (it was always nice when people saw him as happy, RIGHT?) and gave her a DOUBLE THUMBS UP. Soon enough, it was time for class to start. Toby quickly dated and titled his class notes, took a cursory look around the class to see who'd shown up today, then directed his attention back to Moxley. His listening ears were on, yes, listening and ready to learn. Toby didn't know who that was. Any muggle history stuff he'd learnt back in primary school simply hadn't stuck in his head, perhaps because back then he was even harder to be contained than now. So if he'd been taught it back then, it wasn't in his head now. But he'd give it a guess. "That," said Toby, hand waving in the air and forcing extra enthusiasm into his answer even though he still wasn't feeling it. "Is a MAN with a PLAN. I mean, look at his FACE. Is that not a look of pure determination?" And a killer beard, too. French would have liked it. |
Angel knew who it was but since everyone was saying the correct answer and she wanted to be different she decided to say something else. "Professor it's a man competing in the worlds biggest beard contest right." Angel thought that beard was awesome. |
Was that 'hello' for him? Xavi hadn't greeted the professor and he ducked his head a little bit. He should have greeted her. It was rude not to. Now it was too late, so he nodded to acknowledge her greeting and let it go. He stopped feeling bad about not saying hello when she made a big show of 'putting on her elephant ears' like they were five year olds. Even his nine year old sister would have made fun of the professor for that move. Alexander Graham Bell. Easy. Everyone knew that. It was like showing a picture of Bill Gates and asking what he did for a living. Since the correct answer had been said already, and in the interest of earning house points, Xavi scoured his brain for any random information he might have about AGB and raised his hand. "Wasn't his wife deaf?" he asked. He'd seen once a cartoon about the man, and either his child or his wife or somebody was deaf. Maybe. |
*sitting with Clara, nbd* Gabriel had sat with Clara, of course...which was near Hughbert. He'd surrounded himself with his 'people', essentially...since Toby was already sitting with someone. Completely understandable as Toby was one hot commodity...and that was meant in the best way possible. . . AND A SCIENTIST! SCIENCE! The Ravenclaw fought the urge to rattle off all the various things he knew about Alexander Graham Bell...but kept silent. He didn't have to show off his knowledge. People didn't like showoffs, anyway. So, he was going to just...take some notes; with additions, of course. Like....how even though Bell invented to the telephone, he refused to have one put in his office...AND how he'd been a professor to the hearing impaired. He wasn't Einstein, Gabe was quick to mentally point out...but he was still intriguing and impressive. So, notes. Yes. He was....just going to carry on with those...and contribute, "'Mr. Watson, come here; I want you' was the first thing to be transmitted via his invention." ...and that was going in his notes, too. |
Norah beamed at Dot and kicked yellow-high-top-clad feet under the table for house pride reasons. Hufflepuff stuff was ALMOST as good as sparkles so obviously it deserved shoes. Obviously. She leaned forward to squint at the picture, trying not to grin at Dot's answer. The dude DID look like Santa Clause. Or a normal-er looking Dumbledore like the one on her chocolate frog cards, except he was magical so it wouldn't make sense to be in this class. See THAT? That was thinking before she spoke. Apparently it happened sometimes. But then multiple people mentioned the Graham-Bell guy and she decided to roll with it 'cause she HAD heard of that guy even if she didn't really know what he looked like. Sebby had read a book about him and kept going on and on about it for a bazillion years and believe it or not she HAD listened. Kind of. "I heard that he stole people's ideas and didn't actually come up with the whole phone thing all by himself but maybe people only say that 'cause they're jealous." You couldn't just believe EVERYTHING bad people said, 'cause if somebody was mean they probably weren't very trustworthy. Duh. |
Zhenya's concentration perked up when Professor Moxley closed the door. Class was starting. WOOT! Zhenya looked up and gave the Professor her attention, giggling when she put on her listening ears. Zhenya, too, pretended to put on her listening ears, but had self-adjusting ones. They just slipped right on. More giggling. Zhenya looked at the photo. It was a muggle, surely. Ummm... but who? In fact, what was this lesson about? Zhenya raised her hand, not really knowing who it was. "Uh... Professor is it J.R.R. Tolkien? He's an author." |
Text Cut: Before the lesson started The lesson had started and so did Moxley's madness. Swear to Merlin the woman could give Flamsteed a run for his money. Why was she so freaking chirpy? It was only SCHOOL. Wasn't she meant to be slightly exasperated about the idea of teaching a bunch of hormonal teenagers? But he didn't have too much time to ponder that. Not when the Slytherin sitting next to him had made an excellent guess as to who the guy in the picture was. LMAOOOOOOO! Beardy McGenius. LOLOLOLOL. Grayson laughed wholeheartedly at Ethan's answer. Oh MAN, he was gonna remember that one. What an answer. Some people's answers dead funny but everyone else's answers didn't seem to match up, especially given the fact that most people seemed to know who the guy was. Jeez, how did people know this stuff? According to Grayson, the guy in the picture was just a regular old guy who had done something important in history. Shrug. But apparently he'd invented the telephone? Alright then, if they said so. Grayson wasn't about to argue with that. "You could say that he started a revolution -- a huge change in society and the way it works -- with his invention." Or something along those lines. |
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