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Jasper Pavlovsky 2nd Year Hufflepuff
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #20 on Oct 30, 2009, 4:03am » | |
Well it figured that any class that they partook in could not have an absence of a factor of something being remotely related to witches and wizards. It was History of Magic, not history of Greek mythology, after all. As Queety spoke he let his gaze fall onto a familiar figure that was Emily Jacobs, and he couldn't help but smile at her presence in the classroom. Giving her a small wave as he let his attention drift back to the Professor, he nodded solemnly for a moment as she asked them to continue discussion, and he figured he probably should.
Turning back to his group, once again he listened as Chad said that it was likely that the Aguamenti spell was repeatedly used. He grinned, before shaking his head, showing his disagreement. "I don't think Poseidon was that uncreative, to be honest. In my opinion," Jasper started, his Russian heritage showing as he continued to speak, "I thin he was able to use those spells that could move things, or in this case water. He was able to control water, and thus he was called the God of the sea. A.... bubblehead charm, vas it? He could have used that to stay underwater, making people truly believe that the sea was his."
Pausing for a moment as a girl suddenly spoke towards the Professor, he tilted his head in the direction of the both of them. A valid argument that definitely made sense at the moment, how was it that Jasper had missed this? He didn't believe in gods, though - so perhaps that was it.
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Alex McCandless 1st Year Ravenclaw
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #21 on Nov 2, 2009, 10:50pm » | |
Alex perked up in his seat as the teacher asked the last question and the other students began to answer. He had been in a bit of a daze, mind slipping in and out of thoughts. in his group as they talked about the various Greek gods and goddesses. He looked at the board and noticed the new writings, he quickly jotted them down on his parchment. With History of Magic being his very first class at Trio's, he had a near minimal amount of knowledge of magic. Alex wanted to be able to take things in first before getting too involved and speaking up without knowledge so he sat back and listened to the students around him jotting down notes of comments from the professor and fellow students.
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Tom York 2nd Year Hufflepuff
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #22 on Nov 3, 2009, 5:32pm » | |
Bored, bored, bored. Tom leaned back on his chair, looking around the classroom. Every other soul apart from the teacher looked on the verge of sleep as her lecture on Greek gods, went in one ear and straight out the other. The holidays were now a distant memory, a tantalising tease of how Hogwarts life should be, and in its place were lessons, lessons and more lessons.
Suddenly a the scraping of wood on stone made Tom look up. Students were moving about, getting into groups, seemingly to discuss the topic. He'd missed the assigning of the groups, so got up and looking between the four clusters of pupils, before choosing one with a spare seat by it. Sliding into the chair he heard the name Hera and sighed. The only Greek god he knew absolutely nothing about. Listening carefully, he took in the points made by the others in the group, then shrugged when the initiative seemed to come to him. "I've not a bloody clue," he admitted honestly, "I'd never heard of her before today.".
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Fenris Monolayre 1st Year Mihael
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #23 on Nov 4, 2009, 4:46pm » | |
Fenris sat in the back of the classroom staring up at the ceiling. The first class of the year had to be one about history. It couldn't have been more boring. What was worst was that she had actually thought the professor might make the class fun? After all wasn't usually the younger teachers who knew how to keep your attention. The way things were going so far, the Mihael student wasn't impressed with Professor Queety White. And if things continued to be so boring, then it was clear that Fenris might end up giving up on the class altogether. If she wanted to learn history, then she could do so by reading books herself.
Twenty minutes into the class, and she was getting ready to just get up and walk right out of class. In fact, Fenris was practically packing her supplies when the professor spoke up again. This time telling the whole class to gather into groups. The whole plan seemed stupid, and the Mihael felt it was a pointless attempt to bring life into the class. Nonetheless, she got up and walked toward where her group was situated. Group three, and they were supposed to be discussing Aphrodite. All the other members of the groups seemed to get started right away discussing the goddess, so Fenris simply sat back and listened. Most of the things said didn't seem to be much different from what she'd read of muggle Greek mythology. Which was she thought was far more interesting than the wizarding versions.
As time passed it came to discuss the magical attributes of each god and goddess. Fenris listened quietly as her group discussed the topic with solutions of potions being used to Aphrodite even have some veela heritage. In her own opinion, she didn't understand why a so called goddess of love would always have to use magical means. Perhaps she was just a natural matchmaker and used potions for an extra little help.
Has far as her helping people goes, I agree that she probably used Legilimency. If she did indeed use it then, she wouldn't really have any need for potions. She probably just used what she learned from people's minds, and all the rest she did was due to her skills as a matchmaker. she said casually not really caring what the rest of her group thought. It was a simple idea, and in her opinion the best possible guess for an answer. Plus, it helped her stick to her opinion that Aphrodite may not have used very much magic at all.
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #24 on Nov 4, 2009, 10:35pm » | |
Queety listened to several students shout out some ideas. All of them seemed to be getting the idea of how the wizards and witches used their magic to make them appear superior to muggles at the time. For the most part, they seemed to be consistent with what their textbook had said. And those who did not do the reading seemed to be making the intellectual leap and making educated guesses. This was exactly what she was hoping for with her class. They were exercising their brains instead of sitting there and listening to her drone on and on about these same topics.
One student made quite an interesting comment. Queety smiled. "Excellent, idea, Elliot. Ten points to Slytherin for that argument. I don't think I've even thought of it that way but it does make sense. But I'm gonna play devil's advocate here just for the sake of having a debate.
"So you say that witches and wizards could be goddesses and gods because they were supernatural beings that were worshipped. Are you to say that possessing magical powers is not natural? Because looking through history, magical people have been around as long as humans. We are a little different by far from being 'beyond natural'.
"Anyone else could help counter my argument. We don't want Elliot to just do all the talking," Queety said before looking at Elliot who seemed a little bit shy all of a sudden.
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Elliot Miller 1st Year Slytherin
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #25 on Nov 5, 2009, 12:43am » | |
It wasn’t like Elliot to join in on a class discussion; she didn’t even know why she had said anything in the first place. She smiled slightly when the teacher continued on with her question and turned it into a discussion, awarding her house ten points.
She spoke again feeling the need to answer the professor’s question. “I’m not saying that we are not normal, although we would most likely appear so to muggle’s, and I’m certainly not saying that we are supernatural as that would mean we would not exist. What I think as that definition I told of before is that of muggles, and we would appear supernatural to them and even though we are not really supernatural, those witches and wizards could still have been gods if they were worshiped.” She began to draw aimlessly on her text book “wow, that was a big ball of jumbling mess” she whispered to herself pushing her red hair behind her ear.
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|  | Re: 1st and 2nd Years :: one « Reply #26 on Nov 9, 2009, 2:44pm » | |
"Interesting point," Queety nodded. "So, what you're saying is that, from the muggle perspective, we were supernatural and worshipped and therefore making all wizards and witches gods and goddesses. I see where you are going. But really, to us, having magical powers is natural. We're not any different from other humans except we have the ability to manipulate space in ways that muggles cannot."
Queety turned to the rest of the class. "Well, it is that slight difference that seemed to give the witches and wizards of that time the idea that they were somehow better. They basically took what the muggles thought of them and blew it out of proportion.
"An example of this which I find to be very interesting is the notion of immortality. Wizards and witches, just like any human, are indeed mortal but the stories tell of immortal gods and goddesses. How can this be? Well, as you all know, wizards and witches tend to live a little bit longer than ordinary muggles, like until they are about 180 years of age or so. So, for most muggles, they will see the witches and wizards living longer than their own family members.
"Do take notice, however, that usually gods and goddesses did not interact with muggles. Most of the time they, as animagi, transformed into different animals. In their animal form, you can't see what they're human forms look like. Zues, in particular, was famous for being able to transform into different animals. This in false. The various animals were in fact, different men, the descendants of Zues. Each person has their own unique animagus form and each time a wizard came down as a different animal, he claimed to be Zues. So, for every generation, muggles truly believed they were interacting with the same man. As you can see, this is not quite true."
Queety glanced at her watch. "Well, seeing as we only have three minutes left of class, I don't want to continue. So, I'll let you out just a little bit earlier. For homework, please continue reading in your textbook. Next class we will be discussing Herculues, the first Half-Blood wizard. If you have any questions, now would be the time to come up here and ask me. Otherwise, class dismissed."
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