Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

Nika looked at her name plate one last time before she was finally satisfied with it.



She attempted to write in loopy cursive at first, but that didn't really work out too well so she ended up scratching it out and starting over. Oh the professor was starting to talk!

Professor Scabior and nothing else. Right. That's an easy one! Hide face behind something if planning to sleep. She'd have to remember that one. He likes to take away points? Bu-Bu-But Gryffindors already losing!

Why do they study history anyways? It's not like it really has a purpose... "Well we study it because they make us, right?" If she had a choice Nika would probably skip out on History of Magic. It's a nap waiting to happen.

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Less boring. Well, she liked this History of Magic professor even more now.

Sitting back in her seat as she placed her bag down next to her and put her notebook on her desk in front of her, the Slytherin girl raised a brow at the mention of him liking to take points away. At least he has something in common with all the other new professors in this school. Good Merlin. Blinking as she thought about the question, she actually didn't particularly know the answer.

Huh. She raised her hand anyway. "To perhaps learn from our past mistakes so we can build a better future?"

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Sky supposed they studied for the same reasons Muggles studied their history and raised her hand. "Is it because history has a way of repeating itself?"

Originally Posted by fire_faerie

"So that we learn from previous actions to know not to repeat certain mistakes," Ryden said, raising her hand and decidedly NOT looking at a seventh year Gryffindor boy. Because if she looked at him, he might know. And Ryded did not want him to know. Not after...

History of Magic. Yes. Fascinating stuff. The professor seemed sane. That was always good.

Originally Posted by HogwartsHokage

Jenny blinked. Whoa. The professor sounded more intimidating now. Best not to let it get to her...

"We learn about magical history because we don't want to repeat past mistakes?" Jenny replied nervously. Well, she wasn't nervous...no, not really.

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Louisa liked the way he talked - no, really, like he was a bit animated with the booming voice, clapping and knowing what a student would do behind a book, that was great.

Back to the lesson. She raised her hand, "So we wouldn't repeat our ancestors' mistakes and get stuck in a loop of mistakes. We wouldn't be able to improve or develop anything had we not studied the history." Yes, like still using those killing equipments in Quidditch. That'd be tragic.

Originally Posted by KynthiaD

Why would I find History of Magic boring? I even enjoyed plain History when I was in Muggle school... Kynthia could remember those classes. Okay so she did want to sleep in some history classes back then (and sleep in all other classes) but that was normal. Not all days could be exciting. But how could MAGIC History be boring?

Ahhh yet another point-thirsty teacher... She remember the first month she was there. Every house's points were in minus. It was kind of amusing though, than no one could seem to be able to win any points. She wondered what would have happened if that continued until the end of the school year.

As for the question, Kynthia could only think of one reason why this class was important. The same reason that applied to Muggle History too.
"Proffessor? The reason we study history in general, is to better understand our roots and learn from our ancestors mistakes, as to not repeat them ourselves. Sometimes we may even get inspired by some people's deeds and decide to follow in their footsteps, or in contrast be disuaded from following them." she said raising her hand.

Originally Posted by kaseyus

Alyssa raised her hand and when acknowledged, stood up and answered:

"We study the History of Magic so we can attempt to make the present and future a better place to live in. By learning about our past we can make better choices and not make the same mistakes twice. And we also learn about ourselves and how we can, perhaps make history. My dad told me that there is a famous saying about learning history:Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl

Originally Posted by littledhampir

Why they studied history? There wasn't really a right or wrong answer to that question, at least she didn't think there was. Isobel fiddled with her nametag while thinking about it. It read;

Isobel VonHue
Fifth year
Hufflepuff

She had zoned out for about a second, but she snapped her eyes back to the front and the Professor whose name escaped her at the moment, though he had just said it. Oh well. She raised her hand to make up for zoning out. "We have to learn because it is good to know what happened. We need to have a good understanding of our past to make our future better." At the beginning she hadn't really said why, then she repeated her previous statement. The last part she had added spontaneously, and she thought it sounded pretty good. And it made sense.

Originally Posted by Lily<33

Orchid had upon first glance missed the note on the blackboard but once she had, she obeyed and wrote her information on the parchment.



She raised her hand at the Professor's question. "We study the History of Magic so as to learn from it, if we do not know it's history - our history - then we will know not it's mistakes - our ancestor's mistakes. To learn from it, we must know it and understand it, and to do that we must have the knowledge of the history." She said, lowering her hand.

Originally Posted by RoseMalfoy

Desiree listened as she sat in her chair fairly close to the middle of the room. Did he seem nice, she couldn't tell yet, but he got one thing right: Desiree had low expectations for this class, her sister had even said it was boring, and she was, well her sister. She pushed around her name plate a bit.
She thought for a minute and decided it was best to speak up when he asked a question. Raising her hand " Professor I think it's important to study history because it shows us where we came from, but also where we could be going.." she ended with a smile particularly pleased at her clever way of saying history repeats itself, without repeating what had already been said.

Originally Posted by Tazenhani

Charner was taking her lazy dazy time writing things down on the peice of parchment that had been waiting for her. What was more was that serious distractions occurred when the Professor finally started speaking. He was a little loud, but more excitable than any other History Professors she had the pleasure of meeting before. And what was more, he liked to take away points?!

....She didn't know what to make of this man. Nope. Not one bit.

Truth be told she couldn't help wonder if he snickered and giggled behind his own books while docking points. The information, to her, had just been conveyed in that sort of way.

Whatever his intention, the facts were the facts. She had to pay attention. She had to do well. No point loss. Not unless it was for a really good reason. A spider in his shoe might be worth it. Le smirk.

Quickly scribbling down the rest of her information, Charner listened to the other students reports and answers.



Then, as soon as her parchement was finished, raised her own hand. "Because history repeats itself Professor? So we should know what happened in the past so we can predict the future." .... "And learn valuable life lessons." That's what her father always told her about personal reflection anyways, and history reflection seemed the same, just on a grander scale.[/color]

Originally Posted by Boomshakalaka

Damon had been sat back in his chair since the lesson had started when he realised that everyone else was writing their names on the parchments on their desks. He quickly got out one of his quills and lazily scralled his details down.

Damon Bennett
Fourth Year
Slytherin

Then he casually raised his hand and answer in a bored voice, "Because some people in History have done stupid things, so in order for it not to happen again, we need to know exactly what happened and why." After he had finished speaking, he sat back in his chair again and put his hands behind his head.

Originally Posted by Kimalia

Kimalia raised her hand, "It's very important that we learn how we came about to how we are now today, also recognizing what we did well and what we learned or are learning."

Originally Posted by Deniiz

Originally Posted by Granger1814

He liked to take points? Oh dear. She better make sure that she did nothing to upset him, then.

After she had listened to his introduction, Kourtney hesitantly raised her hand. "Well..history can be very important to those living now. We can learn from history...learn not to make the past mistakes of past generations. And it's important to have background information on how magic came into being...as it may help us in understanding why some spells were created for a specific purpose, amongst...other things." That's...really all she had. At least she had given it her best shot.

Originally Posted by luna-p

Ashley was getting ready to take notes, when the class finally started and he was faced with a question to answer, along with other bits of information he quickly wrote down. When he thought of something, he raised his hand, and said, "We study magical history so we know why things are they way they are, and so we know about things that happened in the past that are important to us and helped shape the world as it is today".
That answer got a little long, and sort of ran away from him at the end there, so he shut up just as quickly as he'd piped up and went back to writing in a somewhat sheepish way.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi, after waving to both Gideon and Jenny, returned her attention forward when class began. Why study history? Well, because there were always lessons to learn from the past, right? At least, that is how the fourth year always thought about it.

"I think that everyone has a different reason for studying history, professor," Kurumi said with her hand raised. "Some people might study for inspiration to see what should be done in the future. Learn from mistakes as some have already mentioned. It is also said that history has a way of repeating itself, so, if we study what has been, we will be better prepared for the future and what is to come." She paused for a moment. "We live in the present and are always looking towards the future. But without history, we would not understand people and society nor would we be able to understand change. I also think that studying history contributes to our moral understanding as witches and wizards while also helping us form our identity."

Originally Posted by Starbreeze

So many mean professors this term. Were they upset because of the poor reception at the feast due to the dirty silverware? Or maye the house elves added some Mean Potion to their pumpkin juices. Another Dark Lord would be easier to handle than all this. "To learn and understand who we are." Eino began after he raised his hand. "For example, we know we can't expose magic to muggles because of our past experiences with them."

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

August nodded here and there as the Professor began to welcome them all and go over a few beginning of class/term issues and then he asked them a question, similar to what his Muggle history teacher would have asked.

Raising his hand, the Gryffindor spoke. "Sir, we study History of Magic, for much of the same reasons we study Muggle History, to find out about our past, the events that have shaped us and the important figures who have helped to shape history itself." He ended with a smile. He was always good at history, maybe he would learn alot in this class.

Originally Posted by stormanator

Damon had his hand raised in an instant "Professor Scabior, history is studied so we really know how things came to be in the wizarding world, without know about our history I do not think we as wizards would be able to function the way we would like. We want to help our children know about our history and even their history directly so i think its a good thing that we do this" said Damon.

Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu

"You know," Ellie pointed out, "Our old Professor would give us snacks." Welton, of course. Ellie's favorite History of Magic Professor. Or, at least, she was tied with Lainey. For the sole reason of snack-giving. "If anything it would keep us awake..." Hinthint. She didn't expect grilled cheese, the House Elves wouldn't let her go get some, but Chocolate Cauldrons, maybe?

Just friendly advice.

She twirled her name plate,

around in her fingers as she thought about his question. From the third row, too, unfortunately. As the first two rows had filled up a lot quicker than she expected. She had totally planned on being there. Up and close to the pretty Professor.

Though she didn't have a good answer. History of Magic always did seem quite pointless to the Captain.

Originally Posted by hjhm

Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

Hehehehhh. Heh. Upon seeing Sierra Greingoth, her sworn enemy, draw a little heart on her nametag, Tori started giggling evilly to herself. Hehehehee. It seemed SOMEONE had a little crush.

Oooooh this was SO going in Aparecium. Heh.

Still snickering, Victoria tore her eyes away from the other girl and focused her attention back on the handsome professor. She narrowed her eyes at the question and then lazily popped a hand in the air.

"Is it because SOME people like History, and..... so that they have jobs? Like you, sir?" She smiled sweetly. "We have to keep the children in schooooool!"

Originally Posted by Miss Marilyn

Marilyn raised her hand, looking around at the other people in the room shiftily. (Hehe)

"To understand the significance of our actions...in history"