Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa took her time to figure out the answer to Professor Scabior's question. When she thought of a possible answer, she raised her hand. "Professor, I believe that the reason why both types of comics are popular in their respective communities is because people like to be entertained by the impossible." Alyssa stopped for awhile in order to figure out how to make her answer more logical and understandable

"Muggles want to read about things that won't possibly happen to them. Like really, the possibility of a muggle acquiring any super powers is totally nil."

"Likewise for us wizarding folk. We don't want to read about the things that we can do in comics. We can read about it in the newspapers. We want to read about the funny things that Muggles would do, that we wouldn't do."

Did she make sense? Alyssa hoped she did.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva sighed and put up her hand. "Professor why would muggles want to write about crazy muggles, with all the violence and crazy real life muggles you don't need books. Muggles want something different, something to save them. Wizards see people flying all the time on brooms, so there is no need to write about flying people. They don't see crazy muggles, so it all comes down to both wanting entertained." Minerva put her hand down and went back to drawing hearts and initials on her parchment.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella thought over Professor Scabior's point for a while, trying to formulate a good answer. People liked to read about things they weren't used to happening in their own life, yeah? It made for interesting reading and allowed readers to escape from their lives for a while? At least that's what Ella liked to do when she would read certain stories or comics.

"Professor, I think there is something really erm intriguing about reading about a character who is unlike yourself. It grabs your attention because you're introduced to worlds you don't know a lot about. I guess that's why Muggles enjoy tales of superheroes with powers and wizards enjoy reading about Muggles?" Did that... make any sense at all? Ella hoped so.

Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

And there the Professor went giving those long speech thingies again. Luckily she was able to keep up with what he was saying!

She thought about his question...quite an odd question if she did say so herself. Slowly she raised her hand but then she quickly lowered it. The answer in her head wasn't done yet. She needed to give it a but more thooooought. No need to go giving a dumb answer now was there? Nope.

She rocked back in her chair and gave it a bit more thought. Finally she had the answer!!

"I got it! So, you see, Muggles have very boring lives. They can't do magic and nothing epic ever really happens to them! See, because they realized this they had to go and make up people who can do cool stuff to fill that empty void or whatever it's called. On the other hand WE already have a lot of epic stuff so we don't need to go writing about stuff that doesn't exist!"

Logic right there.

Originally Posted by emjay

Was he supposed to be taking notes in this class? Ethan hoped not, because he had been spending the majority of the class doodling on his parchment.. and not really doodles of superheroes either. The sixth year knew a little bit about comic book heroes, thanks to Cerulean's lesson's last term, but the interest hadn't gone much further than that. Besides, most of his classmates had been more than eager to answer and he didn't feel like echoing them. Though the prospect of earning a chocolate frog was a bit enticing..

..but that seemed to have stopped now and the doodling continued. He glanced up at the mention of the wizarding comics. He knew of those but didn't really care about them. Ethan thought they were pretty dumb the first time he read one and he wasn't much of a reader anyway. Thinking about the question for a moment, Ethan raised his hand. "I guess it's about wanting to be entertained by what each respective community considers to be fantasy.. something different than their ordinary lives. Or else it feels more like non-fiction." Which was okay in its own right.. depending on the subject, but that's not really what they were talking about it.

Originally Posted by Mystic Melody

Melody manage to pay attention for this. FINALLY! Something she could actually answer and not sound silly answering.

"I think a lot of it has to do with fantasy. Muggles can't fly, or have supper strength or whatever it is. So they like to write stories that attract them to give them something to fantasize about. An I think all muggles dream of flying that's why they have things like airplanes and gliders... I think that's what they are called. And for us ... well to some of us muggles are intresting... for lack of a better word. So having a funny story about a crazy muggle would draw attention to a lot of magic folk."

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Three questions at once so Jory put some thought into his answer before raising his hand. "Both are able to sell because people, whether kids or adults, liked to be entertained and are always on the look out for new additions to the series they love.''

Now for the second and third questions. "People in general know everything about normal stuff,'' the Puff continued. "So, they will want to read something different. Some can find it boring to read about everyday stuff in a comic. For example, with Muggles, they do not live in a world where there are super powers but with comics they are able to live that world. It opens a world where they can see things from a different perspective.''

Originally Posted by Cassirin

That was an interesting question, and it dragged Mo's attention away from Kyroh and his spinning chair. It was a really good spinner, and Mo had all sorts of theories and questions about the chair.

But this question captured him for now. "I think Muggles like superheroes because there's an element of escapism. The world isn't perfect, right? But a hero can right some of those wrongs that the rest of the Muggles see in the world. It's not real, but it's an idealized version of the world... one that's totally fixable with the right superpowers added to the mix. But that wouldn't make sense to wizardingkind, 'cause we can do those things they attribute as super, and the world still isn't perfect. So superheroes are less appealing to us." Although he still liked them. Maybe that made him as fond of Muggles as West was.

"But I like Martin Miggs and Looney Nonby because they're funny. Hapless, even. They get into scrapes that I don't know that I can relate to because they're so fantastic, and then they get out of them again. So maybe there's that element of fantasy and escapism for us in those stories."

Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida looked over at the Professor that was an interesting question. "I think superheros are less appealing to us magical folk because we can do all of that stuff basically, we can fly and make cool things happen. But we can't be muggles we could try but we could never truly be one of them. I think thats why we like 'normal' comics and muggles don't want to read comics about normal people where is the escape from reality in those?

Originally Posted by THE Govoni

Dylan listened intently as Professor Scabior talked. Kyroh had been cute...but his father was making more sense...and getting to the point faster.

...And then he was talking in way of contrast...

Raising his hand, Dylan shrugged. "I think it's more based on the fantasy of it. Muggles wished they could perform magic because it'd make their day to day lives easier...but wizarding people, like us, are curious about what it'd be like to just be normal. So, what I'm saying is...We're curious...and muggles just want to be able to use shortcuts."...because his father had expressed how he wished he could perform magic.

Also...."...Kinda like the grass is always greener on the other side, type thing."

Originally Posted by Hayden

Ok... All these informations might be a little too much for him to absorb instantly. At least it isn't boring. To answer the scary-looking professor's question, he half-raises his shivering hand. "Because that there are already a lot of crazy muggles. Like- Like the ongoing ones, s- somewhere far from here... They use big explosions to kill people. Like they showed on TV and... Maybe they don't want to scare little kids," because he is scared with all those loud explosions and people screaming and crying. He saw dead children as well and the last time he remembered watching such thing, he cried the whole night.

Was that it? Oh! In the wizarding world... Well, they are magical human beings. "I don't think comics about flying men will be exciting," It's his personal opinion, but it should make sense to at least a few of them.

Originally Posted by McFeisty

Originally Posted by Tegz

"Oh you're welcome, Professor Scabior." Because he was polite, of course West was polite too. Not sarcastic at all. Except in that slightly Slytherin way where you could never quite TELL if it was legit or not.

But it was. Beaaaams.

West thought about that question and threw his hand up. "Maybe because the point of fantasy is to imagine things that you know can't happen, or things that are different from your own experience and stuff? And.... sometimes stories like what are in comics are.... are..." What was the word, "Allegories for things. Like the unlikely or the impossible is used to represent a symbol or concept what might be harder to understand without making it fun and simple. Sometimes its like we get tricked into learning stuff and we don't even know it because we think we are reading for fun but really we're reading something that has a point and a lesson." Lessons like don't mess with cornish pixies for instance, and when muggles are nutso you should stay out of their way.

So to relate that back to the question and what he meant, "So like, when its a story what seems like its just for fun and fantasy and imaginings, really it might have a hidden meaning or lesson in it, and its better to hide those lessons in something that doesn't sound like you're learning junk, and something new and different that makes you interested to read it to begin with."

Originally Posted by xXxPandora

Oh, just look at that. Kyroh even still looked adorable sneaking one of the comics and reading there on his spot. He should be given some sort of "Best Admirable-looking Kid While Reading" award or something. Heh.

But Professor Scabior was reading and Beezus had to take her eyes off the prince charming for a bit. JUST FOR AN ITTY BITTY BIT.

Listening, she contemplated on the question before raising her hand up in the air. "Professor, I think it's because people tend to give more interest on new things." Emphasis on the word 'new'. "We have this innate, seemingly fixed behavior of turning our heads more to things that we aren't used to having around us. What's new always attracts attention and I guess muggles writing about superheroes and wizards adapting stories of non-magical folk is a response to this." Shrug. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.....back to Kyroh-watching.

Originally Posted by Meizzner

That was a really good question.

Hmm.. Nigel had to think about this one. Nigel raised his hand.

"Well, When you don't have magic. You imagine and fantasize that you do, same thing with superpowers. But when you have magic. You look to things that are different than you and make comic characters like Martin Miggs."

Nigel still wish he had superpowers or a genius intellect like Batman. That would be so awesome.

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

Somehow, it was starting to be clear as to why Kyroh had introduced the class about superheroes. Mainly, it was just because of the comic books. That was pretty much the only smilarity between them. Matrin Miggs wasn't a superhero, as West had shared. Cough.

Now, for more thinking. Hmm. The question Scabior had asked was definitely testing them if they had brains. Course, everyone did. Kat raised her hand. Uhm. "I think it's because Muggles don't have these powers and magic that we, witches and wizards, have," Kat said. "The way they wrote about the superheroes is only what they think people with powers do. It's based on their imaginations and beliefs." For example, not all Muggles are mad like Martin Miggs but that's what most of the wizards think Muggles are: crazy and unaware of the presence of magic. Geddit?

Originally Posted by iceblossom22

The answer for this one was pretty obvious, and Elise thought that Beezus had worded it really beautifully. Elise was never really one for fancy sentences. She would far rather get to the point and have someone get it rather than say it all confusingly and have people stare at you, trying to get your point.

Hand in the air, Elise simply said what she thought. "Muggles want magic, that's why they want all their superheroes be special. Something they can't be." Pausing a moment to think, Elise continued. "Wizarding folk like to imagine Muggle life, so they make a comic full of such things."

"They're never happy with what they have." Elise never knew why. People were such strange, strange creatures. Always so complicated.

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict

This question was sort of an interesting one. Selina supposed that the reason why Muggle comic books emulated magic and Magical comic books emulated mundane, Muggle life was because people always want what they don't have. The seventh year knew TONS of people like that. It was partially human nature; of course, not everyone did it with as much fervor as others did. Some people literally ONLY wanted things that weren't theirs just for the sport of it. There was a name for people like that...

ANYWAY, she rose her hand and said thoughtfully, "I think, Professor, that Muggles don't want to read about things that aren't fantastical. Fiction is an escape. Why emulate their normal lives when they can escape to something so much cooler and interesting for them. And for magic folk, I think we're all kind of intrigued by how Muggles live and get by without magic. It's like our own little escape into their world... like getting to try on their shoes." Yeah.

Originally Posted by hpfan18

Originally Posted by Luna004

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Really good question, but the information before was a bit to take in.

Making a few more notes, the red head looked up as she attempted to come up with an answer of her own. She had to have known something about this, after all she had been working at the Daily Prophet all summer. Surely she should have known what wizards were interested in reading or talking about.

Her lips pursed into their usual pout before she raised her hand, ready to say something. "Professor when people read they want to read about something that isn't usual, they want to read about something different, something they've never seen or heard of before, something that doesn't exist in their 'world'. Which is what I think is the case here." Wow. She was talking a lot, not something she usually did. "Superheroes is something they'd never see on a daily basis and Muggles, well for most Wizards and Witches it is also something we don't see often and for that reason it excites us and makes us curious." Enough said then? Heck yes.