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SPOILER!!: Nettie
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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom View Post
Communication? Interesting. She wondered what this lesson could be about - maybe a babbling type of potion? Some potion that helped you translate other languages? Being a linguist herself, she instantly became more intrigued in this lesson. She assumed he meant communication through WORDS - not something else, like writing.

She raised her hand. "We communicate through speaking different languages," she answered. Please let this be the right direction, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEE!

Nettie was looking particularly keen today, as her hand shot up first, and Noble was relieved to see that perhaps fially she was over her slump, moody teenager or whatever else phase it had been. He nodded at her answer, although it was hardly specific. If she was hoping they’d be doing a linguistic potion, she’d be sorely disappointed. “A very broad answer, but we do, yes.”
SPOILER!!: Anna
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Originally Posted by Hey Ju View Post
Why wouldn't he be?

Well.

Anna chuckled at the Potions' Master's answer and sent him her cheeky smile that was meant to say 'you know why!' as she moved to take her seat.

"Thanks!" She said to the Ravenclaw girl, placing her things on the workstation and taking a seat. She noticed the other girl clearing some space for her and sent her another warm smile as a thanks. "Nice to meet you, Tina. I'm Anna." Well, Tina seemed nice enough!

Yeeep, she was aware they were brewing that day. Why did he think she picked a Ravenclaw to sit next to? Heehee. Professor Noble's first question surprised her, though. Communication? In Potions? Huh! Maybe there was some hope for her in that lesson after all.

The fifth year shot her hand up. "Through messages. They don't have to be verbal, necessarily." That look she sent him earlier? That was communication! See, Anna knew about this topic.

She was pretty good at it. Waaaaaaay better than at Potions, really.

The potions professor deadpanned at the look she gave him; no, he did not know why. He hadn’t the foggiest idea, actually. Which was actually rather ironic, given the question he asked. “Such as…?” He knew it had been an open question, but seriously…they couldn’t come up with specifics? They spent enough time in his classes illicitly communicated, surely they could given one solid example.
SPOILER!!: Aaron
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Originally Posted by Govoni View Post
..... Well, at least it hadn't been terrible. So, that was something. "Good to hear, Professor!"

Settling down into his seat, Aaron went about pulling materials from his bag. Notebook, ink, quill... Potions was one of those subjects that required all of his focus, and meticulous note-taking. If not, he always managed to bungle something up. His 'potion fails' had been spectacular in many previous lessons. But he was still trying to better his skills. Or, at least, he hadn't given up yet.

...and he wasn't surprised that they'd be brewing today. The workstations were all readied, and there were ingredient already laid out for use. He wasn't knowledgeable enough to figure out the potion based on the gathered ingredients, so he just refocused on Professor Noble. And his odd question.

Trick question? "Verbally and non-verbally. Through speaking and hand gestures."

Was it good to hear? Noble wasn’t convinced. And Anna had already covered the verbal answer, so that only earnt the Hufflepuff a grumble. Thankfully, the fifth year redeemed himself with the next bit of his answer. “Hand gestures, yes. There’s even whole languages made up of hand gestures.” To link back to Nettie’s answer.

SPOILER!!: Chase
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Originally Posted by Watson View Post
How do we communicate?

Interesting question for a potions lesson.... Hmm... He paused, wondering where the lesson would be going today. Chase stopped his thoughts from progressing elsewhere and remained silent as he tried to focus on the question at hand. He had listened to his peers questions. His fellow students had already mentioned verbal and non-verbal forms of communication. "[B]Body language is a form of communication/B]." Sometimes you could learn more about a person through their body language than through their words. A person could speak a phrase with one meaning could have a completely different meaning based on tone of voice and body language.

His gaze now settled on Chase, and he could almost sense the cogs turning as he considered the question. The answer he gave was decent enough those. “Body language is often key to communicating meaning, yes.”
SPOILER!!: Tina
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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy View Post
Tina was about to reply to Anna when class started, so she gave her a quick nod instead. She didn't have to be a Ravenclaw to know that talking over Noble would be about as smart as poking a sleeping Hungarian Horntail! Speaking of talking… Professor Noble's first question was about communication. Well, that was unexpected! Still Tina was curious how this would relate to Potions. Were they making a potion to help them communicate better? Possibly something to stop communication? And whatever they were doing, how did the balloons fit into it?

Tina carefully considered the question. The obvious answer was speech, but someone had already said that. Then she thought of body language, but somebody else beat her to that answer too. She bit her lower lip, lost in thought. For a fleeting moment, she considered art as a possibility. It was basically communicating a message using images instead of words, but the more she thought about it, the less confident she felt. That was probably too much of a stretch! She decided to go with a safer answer. “We can communicate through the written word, things like books or letters,” she said after raising her hand and being called on. She was already doubting her answer as soon as she spoke. It seemed almost too safe to be acceptable!

This was meant to be one of those starter questions where there was really no wrong or right answer, so she really had no need to doubt herself. Especially when she had a considered answer. “Indeed. The written word is a very important form of communication in our society indeed.”
SPOILER!!: Daisy
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Originally Posted by Ginevra View Post
Daisy decided to go with a different train of thought. She raised her hand. "Well, some tribes like the Native Americans used smoke signals created by fire to communicate. I am unsure if that still happens."

Was he surprised by Daisy’s answer? A little. It was a tad out of the box. But it was still a method of communication, and he hadn’t specified it needed to be a commonly used one. “I believe it does,” Noble said with a nod.
SPOILER!!: Patrick
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Originally Posted by siriusblackliveson View Post
Patrick had been sitting at his brewing station watching everyone else arrive as he tried to think over what they may be doing that day. He took out his notebook and his pencil from his leather bag. He did not want to be in this class for a brewing day this was almost worse than all the questions that one time.

He heard the question about how to communicate and he agreed with everyone else. "Well if you mean actually communicate verbally and non-verbally. If you mean what methods, well in early American history they used candles. Telephones were also a big thing." He wasn't sure which kind of communication Nobel wanted.

And apparently they were on a theme of using objects for communication. “Yes, a lit candle in the window was once used to communicate safety. And telephones allow Muggles to talk over a long distance.” For those who hadn’t taken Muggle Studies to know.
SPOILER!!: Indigo
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Originally Posted by littledhampir View Post
How did they communicate? The obvious answer was through speaking to each other, but that had already been said so Indigo didn't want to repeat it. A more complex answer was that there were lots of verbal and nonverbal ways that people communicated with each other, but that had also been said. Indigo would have to either think of something different or just not give an answer. He would have been fine with the latter, honestly, but he didn't like saying nothing in class. It always made him feel like he was going to get in trouble. Luckily, he thought of an answer that he hadn't heard anyone else say yet. "Our facial expressions can communicate a lot about how we're feeling."

It wasn’t necessarily wrong to stay quiet in the discussion, as Noble wasn’t one for contributions for the sake of contributions. But Indigo’s answer was decent enough. “Yes, they do. They can help give nuance to verbal communication.”

Were there no more suggestions? Noble gave a slight roll of his eyes, a scowl threatening on his lips. There was a glaring omission from their answers. “You’ve covered most of the major categories…but I’m rather disappointed that no-one chose to mention drawings or pictures.” He knew several in the room were fans of comic books, and those relied as much, if not more, on the graphics than the words. “Regardless, today we’ll be focusing on the voice, and verbal communication. What are some different ways we can we manipulate our voices? ...and can you think of any reasons why might we want to?”
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