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Originally Posted by PhoenixAuror169  Amethyst raised her hand, "Professor, is it the fact that he is the first known victim of the Dragon Pox?" She tilted her head gently, hoping greatly that she was right. "Correct! He was! And his sickness actually could have been cured..." Everett trailed off. He had to let other students talk before he moved on. Quote:
Originally Posted by neaped Hugo raised his hand. "Chancey Oldridge was the first victim of the Dragon-pox," Hugo said. "He died from it." "Died he did! At the young age of 47. Pity. Wizards can live up to their middle 100's." But he had been extremely stubborn. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazenhani Charner puffed out her cheeks at the Professor's response. She thought that living was the key statement of the 'Don't Die' phrase and given living was HIGHLY important, it seemed reasonable that there was a lot more to the expression than just not dying.
But that seemed to be a talk for another day and another time. The class had moved onto ... apples?
Blinking Charner sort of stared at the Professor. Well this was all extremely fascinating. From what she gathered Healers didn't like apples. Maybe it was some sort of weird allergy or something. Raising her hand, she stretched her fingers way up. "Was he an apple orchid farmer?" He would have to be around apples to have coined the expression. Professor Scabior chuckled"No, no he wasn't but that's a good guess." Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack HA. What now. Everyone was giving answer like apples are going to keep you healthier, but Nika was really close to being historically correct. She wins. Yes professor Scabior, we officially re-like you again, as long as you don't take any more points away from Gryffindor. Now who is this Chauncey guy?
Oh wait! She had heard of him before. But when? "Didn't he get some sort of disease and die?" But what disease was it!? "Chicken pox?... NO WAIT. Dragon pox?" The only reason she remembered that was that it was such a funny sounding disease. Dragon pox. Silly wizards. "Dragon Pox. Yes. Far more deadly than the Muggle disease Chicken Pox." Although, neither were quite deadly in this day and age. Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 Hmm...Muggles didn't coin that expression? Well that was something new Auggie didn't know. He made sure to write that down in his notes and listened as Professor Scabior went on more about the REAL history of the expression, which apparently was created by a wizard.
Well, wait he did something else tied to apples? "Professor was Oldridge an apple farmer?" the Gryffindor asked innocently. That was the only other thing he could think of that had to do with apples; well except the invention of apple pie, and if a wizard had done that, he wouldn't know what to do. The Professor didn't even try to hide his smirk."No, no, no. But wonderful guess all the same, since we are still on the topic of the apple expession." Quote:
Originally Posted by Macavity The name didn't strike a cord in Gideon's mind. But then unless one specifically studied history like the professor no doubt did, it was hard to keep every name straight. "Was he a healer?" he offered questioningly after raising his hand, his arm lowering once he was finished speaking. If he was he might have to ask his aunt more about him if she knew as a healer of Mungo's. Oh! A new guess! "No he wasn't! But nice guess." Everett guess that Mr. Gert was trying to think why someone would create the expression. Made perfect sense! Quote:
Originally Posted by Kimalia Kimalia knew he died from some type of illness, but what did his death have to do with the expression, she rose her hand with a thought, "Was the expression created because an apple would have helped prevent his succumbing to dragon pox?" Not that she knew anything else about it, but it still was intriguing for her to find out. "No it wasn't. But a good guess all the same." He nodded eagerly. Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl Merlin, Professor Scabior sure could be long-winded sometimes! Tori sat perfectly still in the front row, her mouth slowly dropping open, half in surprise at the professor's vast knowledge of apples and expressions, and half because he was so jaw-droppingly gorgeous out of boredom.
"Um," she raised her hand, "Chauncey was the first victim to die of dragon pox in 1379, like waaaaay before the cure had been invented."
But how did this relate to apples? "Perhaps Chauncey caught dragon pox from eating a bad apple?" "That he was! Good job in knowing the exact date as well." That couldn't have been in the book he had given her. Perhaps she had studied other texts as well? "Nice guess but not quite." Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty Sky giggled at some of the professor's responses to the students. Really, what were some of them thinking? Although, that older Slytherin boy's response was interesting…
She thought about the professor's question for a minute. She thought he was the one with dragon pox. She raised her hand. "I think he had Dragon Pox, professor." Then she thought some more. The difference between keeping healthy and keeping Healer's away… "Did he throw apples at the Healers trying to help him?" Everett's mouth literally dropped. He had never expected anyone to actually KNOW the story behind it. Especially a first year! Or maybe had she guessed? Either way. "Excellent job Miss Carter-Hope. Excellent." Seriously. Excellent!! Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn Wait...what?
Looking away from the Near Breakdown kid, Evelyn turned her attention back to the Professor, for once, finding herself not bored and about to fall asleep and instead...confused as all get out. What did he mean that an apple a day would literally keep the healer away!? That made no sense!
But she had heard of this Chauncey dude. He just wasn't all high and mighty on the importance list in her opinion. He got sick, and died. So did a million other people.
"He was the first person to become sick with what we all know as dragon pox." she said after raising her hand and after she heard Kim's answer. Huh, that would make sense, but it didn't make sense to her that it'd fit the fact that apparently...apples literally kept the healers away. Now, she couldn't remember a single fact about apples that was blurted out a few minutes before, but she did have her own guess. "Maybe this Chauncey guy liked to eat apples and apparently this sickness absorbs into them."
THAT made sense to her. "Yes, he was! And..." Everett blinked. He quite liked apples...that would be alarming if the sickness absorbed into the apple....because then he would be eating the apple...and catching the sickness again...what? "No...not quite...not at all actually..nice guess though." He blinked again. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi bit her lower lip to try and stop a squeak for escaping (which she was successful in doing). Here it comes...another few points for knowing too much about apples. Since when was knowing things against school rules? It wasn't like she was eating dictionaries or anything. As a baker and chef of sorts, it was her business to know about ingredients.
Kurumi blushed a bit and bowed her head at his comment before waiting to hear just who had coined the expression.
So, the expression WAS literally about apples. Interesting. While Kurumi had just rattled off fact after fact about apples, she still hadn't been entirely sure that the expression was going to be so literal.
Chauncey Oldridge? Kurumi thought she had heard that name before. Hadn't she seem him on a chocolate frog card? She remembered a wizarding with horrible green skin and pumps all over his body at least. The image of THAT on a chocolate frog card had been enough to make her lose her appetite, but she hadn't really read the description of he wizard on the back of the card for fear of losing her lunch. Still, Kurumi wanted to contribute something, so she slowly raised her hand. "He died of an illness that turned his skin a greenish purple tinge with bumps all over his body. The illness also caused him to shoot sparks out of his nose...but I am afraid the name escapes me at the moment." Oh! She knew the symptoms of Dragon Pox too? For some reason Scabior wasn't surprised. He just nodded his head along as she spoke. "Good job. See that is useful information." But he wouldn't push it. "The illness was called Dragon Pox. Quite common for young wizard children." Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley William raised his hand. "Chauncey Oldridge was known for contracting a diseasecalled ChicnPox in the muggle world" William told the proferssor. Huh. "Actually, it's just called Dragon Pox. Even in the Muggle World Chicken pox is something completely different." COMPLETELY different. Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Ohh, ...great. Way to ignore me, Scabior. With an unamused expression on her face, Sierra raised her hand to answer the next question. "He killed over all thanks to Dargon Pox," she said. "He died before they could even make a cure for it." She lowered her hand then added, "The disease causes a green tint on your skin, and since he was the first person to die from it, maybe he was also one of the first to have it. So maybe he was known as the only green person alive, as well..." Hmm. Made sense to her. This Slytherin didn't look amused. Everett raised a brow before she started to talk. "Correct. And he might have been the only green person alive but you never know..there is transfiguration for that." And that was not his subject. --------- Time to move on! "So, just like a lot of you stated. Chauncey Oldridge was the first person to get the disease know as Dragon Pox. Dragon Pox of course is a semi-common Wizarding illness, sort of like chicken pox in the Muggle world, but instead your skin turns green and you get bumps all over you and you tend to sneeze out sparks." Just a little tibet for those who had no clue what Dragon Pox was.
"Now Miss Carter-Hope seems to have heard of the truth behind Mr. Chauncey Oldridge."
He paused. Yes, yes, it was story time. "Chauncey Oldridge had been working in Wales when he caught a cold. A nasty flu really. He stayed in bed rested for a day or two and went back out to work before the flu was cured. What happened next is a mystery even to me. But after that Chauncey began to feel sick. Horrible. Terrible. People started to make remarks that he was looking green, and he should see a Healer. But Chauncey turned everyone down. Stating that he did not need a Healer at all. As the days went by he started to get worse. Ugly giant bumps and lime green skin. Eventally, the people in his town were scared that the sickness could spread to them so they forced a Healer to go and diagnose him. So the Healer went and was making his way to Chauncey's house. Chauncey went down stairs to the front of his house, where conveniently a giant apple tree was planted. He picked up the biggest apple that had fallen from the tree and threw it right at his head. It hit the Healer pretty hard and he ran away. tThe Healer was annoyed. Didn't want to go back, but the people pressed him to try again the next day, so he did. This happened for two more days. And it could have very well happened for a third, if Chauncey hadn't died the morning of the third day."
Now he needed water. Scabior took a deep breath and tried to reorientate himself. "After he died a journal was discover. And Old Chauncey's last words were an apple a day, keeps the healer away." Everett grinned. No one had expected that-except the one first year- now had they?
Now he wanted to do a little recap. "So, as you can see. Expressions- even this one about the apples. May seem really...small and not really important to wizard history. But they actually do relate back to bigger moments in history, like the discovery of small pox or things like that. Even little moments in history are important." He looked down at his wrist. Still time! "Now I want everyone to STAND UP. Gryffindor's go to the back of the room, the corner to my left. Ravenclaw's, back of the room, corner to my right. Slytherin's up at the front, my left corner. And Hufflepuff the last corner up here, to my right." Gogogogo. NOW.
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