Uuuuuuuum.

This felt a little bit like a test and Cecelia didn't love tests. She also definitely didn't know the exact order of the events, but she put on her thinking cap, pantomiming it and all, and gave it her best shot.

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1. Expelled from Hogwarts
2. Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
3. Created the Werewolf Ledger
4. Met Tina Goldstein
5. Wrote and Passed Ban on Experimental Breeding
6. Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

At least she was sure the Hogwarts one was probably first. Probably.

...They weren't going to be graded on this, right?

Aboli was beginning to see that history was probably not her forte, but she probably should have know that by now anyway. It was haaaaard to remember all that information sometimes. But they had to put the events in order! Okay. Aboli was going to just GUESS using logic.

Number 1....is probably him getting expelled. He'd have to do that first before anything else because...well, it just makes the most sense, doesn't it? Now next....probably not the law one OR the writing of the book. Or the award. So that would leave meeting Tina Goldstein or the werewolf ledger...let's go with...meeting Tina. Then werewolf ledger. Um.

She paused as she wrote, neatly, what she thought so far.

Then the book? Then the ban? Then the award? That sounds about right.

And so, in the final order that SHE was guessing:

Okay so since Tom didn't know much about this guy, well except for the fact that he was a writer, he would totally have to guess this. He looked at all the achievements that Newt had gotten and his eyes went wide, seriously this dude had achieved a lot in life.

Tom decided that maybe he was writing a dangerous book in his school years and it was so popular he got awarded the order of merlin but the headteacher at his school was scared for the safety of all the other students so he was expelled that would make sense right. The rest of them was just guesses.

Glad that the Professor had found his mediocre answer acceptable, Minjae took out a parchment and dipped his quill in the ink as the list appeared on the blackboard. Being expelled from Hogwarts seemed like a good place to start. Weren't most successful people either expelled or drop outs?

He looked over the board once more before he began to write down his list.

He placed down his quill and looked over his answer. It looked about right.

Avalon knew her fair share about Newt Scamander, but not quite well enough to confidently order his major life events. She'd have to try to think logically on this one. Well, Hogwarts definitely happened earlier on in his life, so that event was probably first. And Avalon remembered from her history books that he met Tina while he was researching for his book, so that event had to follow. She wasn't sure about the order of the last few though, although she figured that receiving the Order of Merlin happened later on. The young Ravenclaw picked up a quill and jotted down her answers. Hopefully this wouldn't be graded, because she wasn't quite sure of the order of 4 and 5.

Well Newt Scamander was a very busy guy apparently. Naya took notes as the talk continued. Then the professor added more to the man’s accomplishments and told the class what they would be doing next. Ohhhh ok. Naya looked at the list of things that they were supposed to put in order. This would require some thought and quite a bit of guessing.

Looking over her choices, Naya decided that she would stick with her answers. Always go with your first thought, yeah?

Ewan just smiled and shrugged at the professor knowing full well that Niffler’s had no sense of personal space at all. All they wanted was something shiny to hoard for themselves. It didn’t matter if it was a ring on your finger or the tooth in your mouth, If it was shiny, they wanted it.

Whilst Ewan was able to inhale books, absorbing the information without really trying to, he didn’t actually know too much about the personal life of Newt. Sure, he’d heard of how he was kind of a rebel. Someone who stood up for what he believed in and was someone who cared deeply but in terms of actually putting some of the events of his life in chronological order? This required a little more thought. Carefully, he listened as the professor listed six different events in Newt’s life and to his relief, he’d actually heard of most of them and the ones he didn’t, he was pretty sure he could guesstimate where that belonged in the timeline of events.

Pulling out a quill, he quickly jotted down the events in a random order and proceeded to link them in various orders by the use of a complicated line system before finally, he had his order.

Sure, he may have gotten one or two of them in the wrong order but he didn’t mind too much. His knowledge was more creature based than on Newt himself.

Claudine actually felt good about helping along Fiona’s answer. She glanced over at her fellow Slytherin; surely the other girl knew a bit more now about that particular creature for Recard elaborated further too. She nodded in response to Recard, smiling a little. The professor seemed very enthusiastic about the dance answer.

The activity was simple enough but it surely put Claudine’s brain to the test. Yes, she was purely from a wizarding family and lived all her life in the wizarding world but she didn’t know every bit of history when it came to her people. It was with a lot of pondering, crossings out and frowning that she finally put together her list chronologically.

SPOILER!!: Claudine's work

• Expelled from Hogwarts
• Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
• Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Met Tina Goldstein
• Created the Werewolf Ledger
• Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

Missa was DEFINITELY taking notes - even if her eyes were slowly growing heavy. But she was trying, she was definitely trying to keep up and not zone out completely. It was also why she ALMOST knew what Professor Recard had just asked them to do.

Almost.

Reading and rereading the events, Missa guessed as best as she could, and wrote it down.

Kale was relieved when he was told he could guess. Guessing sounded like a win-win situation. Either he guessed right and looked like a genius, OR he was wrong and no harm/no foul. He enjoyed classes where it was acceptable to guess.

The Gryffindor dug down into his bag for some parchment and a quill. The first piece of parchment he found was covered in notes from Herbology, but the backside was still completely blank. That would do. Just fine.

He smoothed out the parchment of his desk and scribbled his best guess:

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1 )Expelled from Hogwarts
2) Created the Werewolf Ledger
3) Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4) Met Tina Goldstein
5)Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
6)Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

Now guessing games. Sometimes it was ideal. It was nice to guess once in a while.

She dug in her cauldron for her textbook and quill and parchment. She needed more information and books were her bestie.

And off she went...

Islay watched as Professor Recard responded to everyone’s answers…ooh wait, she had done well Islay almost wriggled in her seat with pride as she started to sit a little taller, well, as tall as her frame could allow. Even if her body felt like a yarnball of aching tubes at this very moment she was proud, proud…wincing and proud.

When they moved on she quickly jotted down all of the information before trying to put them in chronological order – it was easier to have them on a piece of paper in front of her than to have it be on the chalkboard in the front of the room.

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• expelled from hogwarts
• commissioned to write fantastic beasts and where to find them
• met Tina Goldstein
• created the werewolf register
• wrote and passed ban on experimental breeding
• awarded order of merlin – 2nd class

Putting down her pen, Islay looked at her list and debated it. She wasn’t certain as she looked at it...blinked - rubbed her face and smeared a section of inc across her face without even realizing it.

Newt Scammander's life? Noah stared blankly at the board, trying to recall the events. Okay... He was a little hazy here and there so he started off just with writing the six events. Okay... Now he needed an order. Glancing around the room, he saw that Minjae was already done. WHAT? His Hufflepuff mate must have been a genius. He looked at the chalkboard once more before walking himself through what he had read about Mr. Newt. He knew the order of the first one. Now where did the others fit? He musing to himself he began plopping things down in places, crossing them out, and then re-writing it again. AHA! His finished answer looked like this...

He glanced up and looked to his right, finding Islay's face smeared with ink. He leaned over, "uhh.. Islay you're face.. you've got..." he said and discreetly tried to tell her she had just smeared ink everywhere.

Fiona was relieved when Professor Recard had said that her answer was fine. She tilted her head to the side as she looked at the list of events that occurred in Newt Scamander's life. Grabbing some parchment and her quill, Fiona's brain clicked into gear considering she quite liked Newt Scamander.

When she was done writing the list, Fiona rechecked the list.

Um. Umm. Ummmmm.

If he didn’t know much of anything about this amphibian guy, how was he going to know when he did WHAT? This class was starting to seem more and more like a failure and he didn’t know what to do or what chapter to start reading and something told him all these events had their own chapter.

He had a headache, officially. He’d never liked history when he was homeschooled and now there was this other kind of history he would need to learn from scratch. Was this was a brain overload felt like? And just think, this was basic introductory stuff. He could only imagine how overwhelmed he would be as exams drew closer.

Guess?

He could guess?

Well then, that made this a little easier.

Kitt leeeeaaannnneed closer to his dormmate—great bloke by the way—they all were in that dorm. Pssssssst, Kale, pssssst. Can I uh...can I see your answers.”

Please?

They were just gonna... put life events in order? It was like one of those primary school exercises where you had to list the events in a book in order, only this was a book that Phoebe hadn't read. Some of them were pretty obvious. Hogwarts was first, because there was nothing that could have happened in his life ahead of Hogwarts. And some of those had to happen after Scamander went to work at the Ministry...

But he lived a super long time, right? He lived like a hundred years! So if Phoebe petered out around 16 for ol' Newt, there were 80+ years left to put into order. UGH.

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1. Expelled from Hogwarts
2. Met Tina Goldstein
3. Created the Werewolf Ledger
4. Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
5. Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
6. Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

Blake wasn't 100% sure the exact order of all of these, but well he'd give it a valliant effort just like he did with everything. He wasn't always the best, but he tried his best. Picking up a quill and a piece of parchment Blake began to write

Looking down at his parchment he was rather happy for with guess, he wasn't sure about the werewolf part, but had put it in the 2nd spot, maybe he was write maybe he was wrong.

Holly had definitely taken notes as the rest of the class seemed to know more about him than she did. She’d read his book way back before she even started Hogwarts with Cam and their Dad, but when she hadn’t taken Creatures any further she hadn’t thought to look into him or his life further. He was only known for his work with creatures, right?

Apparently, this was wrong… A fact that the Professor was definitely away to prove. She looked at the board and raised an eyebrow. He was expelled from Hogwarts??? Huh. ……. Interesting.

She looked at the board, and with absolutely no information about him other than the fact he was slightly creature obcessed, she wrote a list on her parchment.

1. Expelled from Hogwarts
2. Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
3. Met Tina Goldstein
4. Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)
5. Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
6. Created the Werewolf Ledger

She looked at the list… and frowned. The Sixth year had no idea, and she didn’t like not knowing. Maybe he had gotten his award AFTER the book? Or maybe he wrote the Ledger before he wrote the book and got the award later on? Or maybe the Experimental Breeding came after the book???? Sighing, she dropped her quill onto the desk. Not knowing either way, she could be mixing up her answers even worse if she changed anything … so she just left it as it was and decided to deal with it later.

She wanted them to put the events in chronological order? It wouldn't be more time-efficient to just look them up in the textbook and make a bulleted list or something? Nevertheless, Isla pulled a piece of parchment out her bag, along with a quill and some ink, and got started.

Isla Bellchant

1. Expelled from Hogwarts (because this happened when he was a young child)
2. Created the Werewolf Ledger (I don't know, you gotta start somewhere?)
3. This sounds like a good time to be experienced enough to write and pass the Ban on Experimental Breeding
4. Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class) - because it just seems like the time in his life to get an award for all that work.
5. Met Tina Goldstein? (P.S. Who is this?)
6. Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (sounds like you need to super experienced to write a book, so I put this one last)

FINISHED.

For now. She highly doubted she'd gotten all six in the right place, but they looked pretty good to her. Looking over the accomplishments, she decided that Scamander lived a pretty good life. So basically, a Hogwarts diploma was completely unnecessary. Scamander, Hagrid, Potter, Weasley...

Alexia was thankful that they were moving on to an activity. Not only could she feel her brain going numb and her writing hand cramping up, but the doodle on the side of the page was becoming enormous. Almost devouring everything else on the page. At least with the activity her brain would be more occupied and she could stop feeding the monster that was that doodle.

Pursing her lips to the side of her mouth (her concentration face) she set herself to the task of the activity. Truthfully, she had no idea if this was going to be right or not. At least she could take a shot at it, right? That had to be better than nothing at all. As long as she wasn't getting graded on this list. They wouldn't be, right? Because she was literally making everything up as she went along.

Okay, so expelled from Hogwarts had to be first, right? Everyone she had seen so far in her classes had bee a pre-teen or teenager, so it would make sense that he would be too. Alexia found herself wondering what he did to get expelled from Hogwarts. It was probably something really cool, right? Like he fought off some evil creature, or protested some injustice, or like jumped into the lake from a high window just to see what would happen? She put a little star next to this line, actually excited to learn about the bad boy Newt Scamander, who managed to get himself expelled from Hogwarts.

That went over pretty easy, she had one out of six events done, and she was already interested in the topic they were learning about. If the rest of this list was this easy, maybe she would have this activity done soon feel really smart! What did her mom say? She just had to put her mind to it and anything was possible? She looked at the rest of the list, trying to sort out the information like she did the first item.

She looked.....

And looked.....

And looked....

Okay, this was going to be harder than she thought. At least she had a frame of reference for the first event! Some of these events she didn't even really know about. Alexia supposed this was why they were LEARNING about them, but she was really getting nowhere. She gave a soft sigh and flicked her eyes up to look at the Professor for a couple of seconds before returning to her work. Okay, this couldn't be THAT hard, right? The Professor wouldn't give them an impossible assignment.

Tina Goldstein might be next. She wasn't certain, but it was one of those gut feelings. This was what she was going to call the 'mundane' part of his life. He got expelled from Hogwarts and met a cool woman. Maybe the woman helped him on some of his other adventures. Alexia wanted someone to help her on her future adventures. She hoped she found a friend like Tina one day. Then again, this was all speculation. Tina could be an ex girlfriend, or a news reporter, or even a teacher that Newt looked up to. It just felt like a second event kind of thing.

Third.... She was torn between werewolf experimentation and the werewolf ledger as the third event. She knew what a ledger was, her dad had to use them for work, but was a werewolf ledger different? Weren't ledgers like spreadsheet looking things? Did he document the amount of werewolves in the world? Or was it like a medical ledger and that led into the ban on experimentation? Twirling a strand of her pink hair around her index finger, Alexia tried to logic this out. The second one seemed the smartest, yeah? Write a medical ledger and then get werewolf experimentation banned. That sounded the smartest to her, but she felt like there was a trick in there. She was going to have to come back to that one.

And as for the award, that felt like something that happened AFTER you did something major, like the military awards her friends Grandpa had. So theoretically, he would have had to do something really big, like ban werewolf experimentation. It was like a human rights issue, except the humans were werewolves instead. So that had to be fourth. That was the second answer she felt confident about. This was starting to fall into place.

That left writing the book as last. Alexia wasn't quite sure why she chose that to go here, only that it felt like a good life wrap up event. You did everything you wanted and then you wrote a book. Perfect old person activity to pass away the days. Write about your adventures and the beasts you found and change the world. Sounds fun.

After many scribbles, rewrites, and a considerable amount of ink stained on her hand, Alexia's final list went as follows:

First event: Got expelled from Hogwarts
Event two: Met Tina Goldstein
Event Three: Wrote the Werewolf Ledger
Event Four: Banned werewolf experimentation
Event Five: Awarded the Order of Merlin
Event six: Wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them

Yeah, that looked about right. Never mind that she still didn't know what half of these things were. She was sure they were going to learn about that very soon, or that this was going to be a reading activity for her tonight. She REALLY hoped the first however, because too much reading rotted a girls brain. And she needed her brain for stuff.

Well, duh.

"So true, professor!"

It might have been absurd, imagining falling into either of M&D's footsteps, and especially the paternal half, if Nem could not also see the benefit of it. They had even briefly entertained the notion of working towards joining the filth, but vetoed it almost immediately. Imagine working with the paternal half? Nah, you're alright.

As for this next activity, Nem... was already over it. Even Ezra could do this kind of thing in his sleep, and he was a dolt. So Nem merely took the time to find what mental stimulation they could, and scribbled their answers out onto a piece of parchment.


awarded the order of merlin (2nd class)
met tina goldstein
commissioned to write fantastic beasts and where to find them
wrote and passed the ban on experimental breeding
created the werewolf ledger
expelled from hogwarts

There. That narrative was at least mildly entertaining.

TRUE, it wasn't fair to repress a niffler's natural instinct, but wouldn't they be SO COOL to have around IF you could train one to fetch treasure FOR YOU? Like, the niffler goes out, gets the gold, BRINGS IT BACK, you deposit in your Gringotts vault, and then go out the next day and do the same thing again?

Bernie was on to something here, she was sure of it. As for the timeline of Newt's life? Yeah no, she really hadn't cracked his books yet. So this was just going to be a good guessing game.

1. Expelled from Hogwarts - Yeah that had to be first be--- WAIT WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? Did this mean that if Bernie did end up getting expelled by Trent, she could still make some supreme contributions to the Wizarding World?!?!???!?

2. Met Tina Goldstein - Who was this? His wife? Was she a school dropout TOO? Whoaaa.

3. Commissioned to Write Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them - It seemed like it fit here. And so now Bernie knew the title of the book sitting up there in her trunk. UM. MAYBE this one came before the werewolf one, because maybe he met a lot of werewolves whilst researching the book, and decided they should all be forced to register at the Ministry or whatever this meant.

4. Created the Werewolf Ledger - Actually, why DID werewolves have to register? Wasn't that like, OUTING them? That was kind of discriminatory? Shouldn't one's status as a werewolf be kept private? Bernie's brown furrowed as she weighed the ethics of this Newt!action.

5. Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class) - You know what, though, maybe the werewolf ledger SAVED LIVES or whatever, maybe just a few lives, not enough to get an Order of Merlin FIRST class, but enough to get a fancy schmancy second class award.

6. Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding - And then this one was last because Bernie didn't know what it was but it BANNING THINGS seemed to be something old people liked to do when they were grouchy and bored with life, like how they liked to ban skateboards on sidewalks and loud music after nine pm.

Pleased with her work, Bernie sat back and crossed her hands in front of her.

Jillian finally opened her notebook this time when the professor started to address their answers. Most were really helpful and some she has already read up in the books. And then the activity started but it requires some sort of thought process into it. They needed to put these series of events from Newt's life in chronological order. And as she stared at the 6 events her mind just went blank. Why is she blanking on this? Could be that she hasn't read further into his life? Yeah, that could be it too. But worth a shot.

This list is all hypothetical... well, fingers cross if she makes at least one correct answer.

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-Expelled from Hogwarts
-Created the Werewolf Ledger
-Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding
-Met Tina Goldstein
-Commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Awarded the Order of Merlin (2nd Class)

This looked right. She thinks.

And just like that, Whitney was all the way over this class. Honestly, she had been over it ever since she the topic had been revealed to be Scamander but now: ALL. THE. WAY. OVER. IT. Why couldn't they ever study anyone cool? Why was it always the NERDS?

That said, because it was like, hardwired into her somehow, the Ravenclaw still wanted decent marks. Which meant doing this ordering activity. Sigh.

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• Expelled from Hogwarts (duh)
• Commisioned to write Fantasic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Wait, I thought he just decided to write that on his own...?)
• Met his future wife, Tina Goldstein
• Awarded the Order of Merlin, Second Class
• Created the Werewolf Ledger
• Wrote and passed the Ban on Experimental Breeding (though, did he really pass it? Doesn't it usually take a group vote to pass something like that? American here, sorry.)

NERD!

Was Eiji pleased that Professor Recard looked pleased? Why yes. Yes he was. He lived for subverting expectations and the very fact that he spoke open did that.

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Point was, Nem was not particularly inclined to answer at all. But their hand still went up, thanks to one Emo Rasting. "There might be a better argument that it all started with hippogriffs, actually, because of Scamander's mother breeding them. Her encouragement sparking his interest in creatures and all that." Sweet smiles for you, Rasting, and you, Recard. "Something probably influenced her too, and maybe it keeps on going back and back like that, so who can really say for sure what the real start of it was?"

Had they gone off track? Maybe if Rasting hadn't started the derailment. Shame on him.

"Oh, and Scamander studied demiguises," Nem added, clearly as an afterthought.

.....................

No really.

.....................

Emo Rasting was feeling SOME sort of way about this and initially his head did not snap around to following the voice to see just who was addressing him. Whoever she was, he did not need to satisfy them with seeing him somewhat upset about the implications of there being a BETTER answer. Because....guess what? He didn't even care about this topic all THAT much and he really did not need to know about Newt Scamander ANYWAY.

Only he absolutely did and in many ways his aspiring potioneer and alchemist self was indebted to Newt Scamander and all his research. All lines of his desired profession could be traced back to this man and his contributions. So, in fact, he did care. He DIDN'T...but he absolutely did.

So his head DID turn eventually towards the younger Slytherin and gave her a caaaaaaasual look up and down. Casual. Not glaring at all. And that smile...yeah...he could have done without THAT.

Bloody cauldron stirrers.

His eyes were narrowing a bit to glare at her when something the professor said drew his attention away. Way away. Spiraling away, in fact...

...just because our parents did something doesn't necessarily mean we will follow in their footsteps...

Welp. Consider Eiji slightly tuned out now. He barely even heard what the next part of class was about - ordering the events of Scamander's life - as his on thoughts moved to all his previous terms here at Hogwarts, all that he had anxiously anticipated over the summer leading into this term, the spat he had had with Nina, their conversation that followed where he had...had actually apologized... yeah...just because your parents did something ... yeah... anyway.

Eiji turned back towards his piece of parchment and lazily scribbled down the events in order. He HAD written them in the correct order, but his penmanship was an absolutely disaster and completely illegible. Chicken scratch at best...so it hardly made a different where in the order he had placed Scamander's expulsion from Hogwarts. For all anyone knew by looking at his parchment it could be in the last position even if it was obviously intended to be in the first.